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Tom Cruise’s ‘Risky Business’ co-star described him as the ‘biggest pain in the ass’ in an interview with Resurfaced
They say the internet is forever and that’s what may be happening here after a 2009 interview with Tom Cruise Risky business co-star resurfaced. Bronson Pinchotwho currently stars in Netflix’s Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, has had some curious view about working with the superstar that is worth revisiting.
The interview was conducted with The AV Club who looked back on his career, from The Flamingo Kid to the hit 1980s sitcom Perfect Strangers. So naturally, they asked him about his film debut in 1983’s Risky Business, with Cruise — and he didn’t hold back. He admitted that no one on set knew the movie was going to happen. to be a “big hit”, but they were all very young actors navigating Hollywood at the time. “Tom was 20, I was 23,” Pinchot revealed while admitting that he didn’t love Cruise’s very methodical acting choices.
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“Tom had gotten into this thing where he called everyone by their character names because it would probably make his performance better, and I don’t agree with that. I think acting is acting, and the rest of the time, you should be you, but he called us by our character names,” he continued. Pinchot also claimed that Cruise was “the biggest bore on the face of the Earth.” LOL — that’s quite a statement. However, he also accused his rising co-star of making “constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments,” and Pinchot thought Cruise got hit by karma when “people started picking on him with [those same type of comments].”
Homophobia is never funny and Cruise’s rep at the time responded to these allegations, saying Weekly entertainment“Obviously, that’s so far removed from who Tom Cruise is as a person that it must have been said in jest.” Pinchot’s resurfaced comments about that work ethic, however, give a glimpse into just how intense Cruise can be on set. It’s something Cruise’s The Outsiders co-star Rob Lowe has said. talked about over the years.
“[Director] Francisco [Ford Coppola] “I also thought we should all be gymnasts, for some reason. So we all had to learn how to do back handsprings. Tom took it very seriously. If you watch The Outsiders, the movie is playing and the movie just stops and Tom does a back handspring off a car,” Lowe shared on Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi podcast.”[Tom was] ambitious, I’ve never met anyone more ambitious, and I’m ambitious. There was a lot going on… Tom’s role in Steve Randle wasn’t a huge role, but Tom being Tom, he was ambitious.”
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