![]() ![]() Let’s just rehearse on-camera.’ So we rehearsed and they recorded it, and then he goes, ‘I’ll be you. “And he gets so frustrated with having to try and explain that he goes, ‘Let me just-let’s just go do it. “So this scene was happening, and Tom was not happy with what I was doing because I had the shittiest lines,” Newton recalled. Director John Woo was downstairs watching them perform from a monitor. And I think he has this sense that only he can do everything as best as it can be done.”įor example? At one point, she said, the two were shooting a night scene with Cruise on a balcony, in which their characters were supposed to be frustrated with one another. “I was curious, because it’s like, Wow, if going to attract people, powerful, high-profile people, there’s got to be some glue that sticks this shit together. Didn’t find any.”īut Newton’s bizarre on-set experiences did not stop with bizarre, pseudo-religiously-themed swag. Among the Scientology swag he liked to hand out? “Like a book with the greatest hits of Scientology, a bit like a Bible kind of thing,” Newton recalled. He was “very generous and open about sharing Scientological stuff,” she said. In a broad, juicy interview with Vulture, Thandie Newton shared, among many other things, her experience working with Cruise on Mission: Impossible 2. I was curious, because it’s like, ‘Wow, if it’s going to attract people, powerful, high-profile people, there’s got to be some glue that sticks this shit together.’ Didn’t find any.Who would have guessed that Tom Cruise can be a little strange, even intimidating, to work with? But did you have Scientology-themed Christmas gifts on your weirdo bingo card? “Like a book with the greatest hits of Scientology, a bit like a Bible kind of thing. READ: NICOLE KIDMAN TALKS CANDIDLY ABOUT HER DAUGHTER BELLA IN RARE INTERVIEWĪs for Christmas presents, Cruise would gift cast and crew something to do with Scientology. “She was a huge advocate for me,” says Newton. Newton said strangely enough it was Cruise’s wife at the time, Australian actress Nicole Kidman who had got her that role. I saw it growing, and it was like the zit was me, just getting bigger and bigger.” “It would take anyone else 48 hours to manifest a zit. “I remember at the beginning of the night, seeing this slight red mark on his nose, and by the end of the night, I kid you not – this is how his metabolism is so fierce – he had a big whitehead where that red dot was,” she said. Perhaps the funniest part of the interview was Newton revealing that Cruise had got “so stressed” during this scene that a blemish on his face grew and grew. And I really do mean bless him, because he was trying his damnedest.” It just pushed me further into a place of terror and insecurity. And it was the most unhelpful … I can’t think of anything less revealing. You be me.’ So we filmed the entire scene with me being him – because, believe me, I knew the lines by then – and him playing me. “And he gets so frustrated with having to try and explain that he goes, ‘Let me just – let’s just go do it. So this scene was happening, and Tom was not happy with what I was doing because I had the shittiest lines.” Which I think was very helpful to him, but it was extremely unhelpful to the rest of us. And John had made a decision at the beginning of the movie, unbeknownst certainly to me, that he didn’t speak English. He was downstairs looking at everything on a monitor. “I don’t think it was a very well-written scene,” Newton begins. Newton detailed how the duo struggled through the filming of a night scene on the balcony. And I think he has this sense that only he can do everything as best as it can be done.” “I was so scared of Tom,” the Westworld actress, now 47-year-old says. In a new interview with Vulture, Newton recalled her time working with her Mission Impossible co-star as a “nightmare” saying Cruise was “really stressed” and “dominant”. Hollywood’s resident Scientology ambassador Tom Cruise isn’t so great on set, says Thandie Newton. Photo by Michael Crabtree – PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images. Co-stars Tom Cruise and Thandie Newton arrive for the Gala Premiere of the Mission Impossible sequel, M:I-2, at the Empire Leicester Square, central London. ![]()
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