Tom Cruise takes his units severely — even when filming a phase meant strictly for laughs. Michael Cera — who can presently be seen in Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme” — discovered this out the onerous method when taking pictures a pre-taped sketch for the MTV Film Awards in 2010. In it, Cruise reprised his “Tropic Thunder” character, Hollywood agent Len Grossman (whom Cruise has hinted at presumably spinning off into his personal film).
Per Leisure Weekly, Cera recalled on the “Louis Theroux Podcast” his “little second” with Cruise throughout the phase, one in every of a sequence of moments the “Mission: Unimaginable” actor had with different performers.
“Tom runs the set,” Cera mentioned. “I used to be actually there for like 5 minutes, however what I noticed was, he was like the primary AD on the set… I imply, he was such a pacesetter. The primary second I had with him, I arrived, they had been taking pictures, and I used to be speaking to the author. We had been simply form of mumbling whereas they had been taking pictures, however they may hear us. It was similar to 40 ft away. And Tom Cruise seems to be at me, I’ve by no means met him, and so they’re in the midst of a take and he seems to be, and he goes, ‘Is that Michael Cera speaking throughout a fucking take?’ He was joking, but it surely was additionally like, ‘Do shut up,’ you recognize? However so surreal.”
Later, when it got here time for Cera to shoot his portion, Cruise — seemingly kidding — known as Cera out on his poor on-set conduct.
“Then I met him and he’s like, ‘Speaking throughout a fucking take,’” Cera remembered. “I knew he was enjoying round, so I used to be like, ‘Hey man, it wasn’t me, it was the author.’ He was like, ‘I’m kidding, I’m kidding.’ And I used to be like, ‘I’m kidding, too.’”
Cruise is using excessive on the success of the newest “Mission: Unimaginable” installment, and he not too long ago insisted that he has no intentions of stopping his filmmaking profession. He instructed THR in Could, that he wouldn’t solely be making motion pictures into his eighties — as he has beforehand acknowledged — however into his a whole bunch.
“I’ll by no means cease. I’ll by no means cease doing motion, I’ll by no means cease doing drama, comedy movies — I’m excited,” he mentioned, including that he was “very lucky to have the ability to make the movies that I make and I find it irresistible. I really like simply making motion pictures.”