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Musk's comment may have been a reference to Tom Cruise as movie producer Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder talking on a cell phone to someone from the drug cartel that is holding movie star Tugg Speedman and beginning his remarks by saying, "First, take a big step back and literally fuck your own face!" youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0…
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Musk's comment may have been a reference to Tom Cruise as movie producer Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder talking on a cell phone to someone from the drug cartel that is holding movie star Tugg Speedman and beginning his remarks by saying, "First, take a big step back and literally fuck your own face!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0RmEiWWvU
Yea, but he got the line just wrong enough that it came out super awkward