Cuba Gooding Jr.'s famous "Show me the money" scene in Jerry Maguire, was recorded while the actor was stuck in Los Angeles traffic. Co-star Tom Cruise was filming the classic shot in which he is trying to negotiate a contract with Gooding Jr.'s sports star character over the phone, but Gooding Jr. was still making his way to the studios. The actor, who won the Best Actor in a Supporting Role Academy Award for his performance, explains, "When we shot Tom Cruise's side of that, he was in the studio and I was on my way to the studio because my call (time) wasn't until later. They were just going to have the director read my lines (while Tom was on the other end of the phone) but the director said, 'No, I want Cuba.' I was in the car, in traffic, yelling, 'Show me the money!' all the way through onto the Sony (Pictures) lot. Then when we pulled up on the lot, there was a crowd of people saying 'What's going on?' The security guards came to the sound stage because they said, 'There's this black man yelling and screaming on the phone!'"