Auditioned for both Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) and Cheetah (1989) at the same time and was given the choice to star in either film. He chose to star in Cheetah which flopped at the box office grossing $8 million on a $5 million budget. The former is the fifth highest grossing film of the 1989 grossing $222,700,000 worldwide on an $18 million budget.