I know we covered the extensive BFI interview with Tom Cruise, but there are so many cool snippets in there I wanted to highlight. Not the least of which is when Tom talks about making Magnolia with Paul Thomas Anderson. Now, if you've seen the movie, you know the famous monologue scene that PTA sent Cruise. Well, Cruise read it, and he had his own ideas as to how he wanted to tackle this scene and this person. - YouTube www.youtube.com In that anecdote, Cruise talked about being cast as Frank 'T.J.' Mackey and how he just understood him. "I had a strong instinct for this character," Cruise said. He invited Anderson to his home for what was ostensibly a wardrobe fitting. “The whole monologue wasn’t there at the beginning. That wasn’t there,” Cruise continued. “There was a couple of sentences. And I said, ‘Look, just come over to my place. Let’s do the wardrobe fitting.’ And I remember [Anderson] wanted me in, like, IZOD shirts and khaki[s].”However, Cruise had a much grander presentation in mind. In his personal screening room, complete with self-arranged lighting and music, Cruise unleashed a performance of the monologue he had crafted.“And I lit it … and I had the whole music, and I basically wrote the opening monologue … my version,” Cruise said.“[Anderson was] like, ‘What the fuck?’ I was like, ‘I don’t know, this is Mackey to me.'”This is what Cruise does in a lot of movies, apparently. When he researches, he “creates...
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