Simon Cowell, I have met him at a couple of parties. But I...

Simon Cowell, I have met him at a couple of parties. But I don't know him at all, really, and this part is not based on him aside from the fact that I am a judge on a talent show that's massively popular and I am very cruel. There the resemblance stops. The part really is a creation of writer/director Paul Weitz and his warped vision of me.