June 19, 20241 yr 4 minutes ago, Jade Bahr said: The story about Daniel Day Lewis and his method acting here is cracking me up @Lilja K Neil Jordan has a new memoir out called Amnesiac and he writes about Interview With the Vampire and the backlash that came for all of them, but especially Tom, when he was cast as Lestat. At the time, everybody hated the idea, including the book’s author Anne Rice. It’ll be 30 years since the movie’s release this November and remember, in 1994, Tom Cruise was all about planes and race cars and all-American heroes, the most handsome and dazzling of movie stars. Casting him as a vampire was not on anyone’s bingo card. An excerpt from the book was published a few days ago and here’s how Neil recalls the situation (via Variety😞 “The problem was the casting of Lestat. Brad Pitt had agreed to play Louis and somehow assumed Daniel Day-Lewis would be playing Lestat, an assumption shared by [author] Anne [Rice]. I offered it to Daniel, who read it, and, as I expected, didn’t want to play the character. A few years before, he had confined himself to a wheelchair to play Christy Brown in ‘My Left Foot.’ He would have had to sleep in a coffin for the entirety of this production if he followed the same practice. So we moved on.” LOLOLOLOL FOREVER. Neil Jordan is a WRITER. And the tone he takes with that paragraph is masterful. “So we moved on” after the whole bit about sleeping in the coffin is sending me… Anyway, Tom did not need to sleep in a coffin to become Lestat. And he proved people wrong when they eventually saw his performance. He also proved Neil Jordan right, because Neil obviously saw it before everyone else after meeting with Tom in LA: “I finally got it. He had to live a life removed from the gaze of others. He had made a contract with the hidden forces, whatever they turned out to be. He had to hide in the shadows, even in the Hollywood sunlight. He would be eternally young. He was a star. He could well be Lestat.” Is there a double entendre there when Neil says that Tom “made a contract with the hidden forces, whatever they turned out to be”? Is it a contract with the fame devil, that compromise that all stars must submit to in exchange for the spotlight? Or, you know, is it a contract with the Thetan in exchange for, um, extraterrestrial immortality? Neil Jordan is too skilled of a writer to not know that there can be multiple interpretations of that sentence. But two things can be true. Whatever Neil is alluding to in that passage can co-exist with his profound respect for Tom as an actor. In Neil’s opinion, Tom is “also a superb actor” and yet still underestimated: “The entire world said, ‘You are miscast.’ He’s a great actor. If he says he can do something, he will do it in a way that people will be shocked by. Tom has become the last remaining film star. It’s kind of strange.” Maybe you have to be strange to be the last remaining film star. Maybe that’s the only way to remain a film star. Tom Cruise is one of the few stars who refuses to perform normal. Tom Cruise is not out here dangling from a moving train while insisting that he’s “just like us”. He’s never tried to be “just like us”. We don’t know what he’s like at all. At least not anymore. We used to know too much, and it resulted in a dramatic dimming of his star power. So he lives outside the gaze of others, maintaining that contract with whatever hidden forces, and hiding in the shadows, a vampire who doesn’t need a coffin. I can't see anyone in the role of Lestat other than Tom Cruise. This is the perfect casting💯 Funny that Tom is no less a freak than Daniel, but in a different way. But as actors, I admire both of them.
June 19, 20241 yr 10 minutes ago, Lilja K said: I can't see anyone in the role of Lestat other than Tom Cruise. This is the perfect casting💯 But as actors, I admire both of them. As an actor 80s and 90s (and maybe early 00s) Tom Cruise was purely perfection. Lots and lots of great/iconic movies and characters. It's hard to compete with his career back in the days.
June 19, 20241 yr 2 minutes ago, Anasxs said: his worst film is "The mummy", I cannot understand than film, good idea but bad result. I didn't like it AT ALL 🤣 Also hated Top Gun 2 and the last Mission Impossible (7 or whatever it was).
June 19, 20241 yr 2 minutes ago, Anasxs said: Top Gun 2 IS better than "The mummy". It's a propaganda celebrating "oh look war looks SO FUCKIN COOL" movie. I hated everything about it.
June 23, 20241 yr 27 minutes ago, Jade Bahr said: Of course he's a swiftie. Always down for a fancy cult 🤣 @Lilja K
July 9, 20241 yr Didn't know him and Brad didn't get along. But on the other hand... to big alpha men LOL @Lilja K Tom avoids the Pitt stop? (...) there’s a lot of speculation that Brad and Tom aren’t exactly cozy. They’ve worked together exactly once, on Interview With The Vampire, and did not get along. Brad has talked often about how miserable he was on that set, to the point where he tried to get out of it during production and was told that it would cost him millions of dollars. In an interview afterwards with Premiere magazine (God I miss Premiere – the best interviews happened in Premiere; it was Premiere and Movieline back in the day), Brad said that: “[Tom bugged me.] There came a point during filming when I started really resenting him. He’s North Pole, I’m South. He’s always coming at you with a handshake, whereas I may bump into you. There was this underlying competition that got in the way of any real conversation." Though he did acknowledge that Tom did a great job on the film, rumours about their relationship, or lack thereof, have persisted. And when it was first announced that Brad was working on this F1 movie, there was some gossip about how Tom was side-eyeing Brad for coming into his lane. And now it’s been a minute since Tom has appeared at the track while Brad’s all over the circuit. Maybe it’s just scheduling. Maybe Tom really didn’t have time to get the chopper going and fly the short distance to Silverstone yesterday. But … you know… Boy Sh-t is the Best Sh-t. And if this really is boy sh-t, it’s been three decades of it. So, once again, as we’ve always known, boys can keep grudges too. They might even be better at it.
July 9, 20241 yr 8 minutes ago, Jade Bahr said: Didn't know him and Brad didn't get along. But on the other hand... to big alpha men LOL @Lilja K Tom avoids the Pitt stop? (...) there’s a lot of speculation that Brad and Tom aren’t exactly cozy. They’ve worked together exactly once, on Interview With The Vampire, and did not get along. Brad has talked often about how miserable he was on that set, to the point where he tried to get out of it during production and was told that it would cost him millions of dollars. In an interview afterwards with Premiere magazine (God I miss Premiere – the best interviews happened in Premiere; it was Premiere and Movieline back in the day), Brad said that: “[Tom bugged me.] There came a point during filming when I started really resenting him. He’s North Pole, I’m South. He’s always coming at you with a handshake, whereas I may bump into you. There was this underlying competition that got in the way of any real conversation." Though he did acknowledge that Tom did a great job on the film, rumours about their relationship, or lack thereof, have persisted. And when it was first announced that Brad was working on this F1 movie, there was some gossip about how Tom was side-eyeing Brad for coming into his lane. And now it’s been a minute since Tom has appeared at the track while Brad’s all over the circuit. Maybe it’s just scheduling. Maybe Tom really didn’t have time to get the chopper going and fly the short distance to Silverstone yesterday. But … you know… Boy Sh-t is the Best Sh-t. And if this really is boy sh-t, it’s been three decades of it. So, once again, as we’ve always known, boys can keep grudges too. They might even be better at it.
July 9, 20241 yr 37 minutes ago, Lilja K said: At least those 2 are VERY cozy Can't help but this Powell dude is so unappealing and fake to me I can't even describe it.
July 9, 20241 yr 15 minutes ago, Jade Bahr said: Can't help but this Powell dude is so unappealing and fake to me I can't even describe it. Same Spoiler He has a great body, but an annoying face (especially when smiling)
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