Tom Cruise on risking life for stunts: No one asked Gene Kelly, ‘Why dance?’
19.05.2022 - 01:17
/ nypost.com
“Top Gun: Maverick.” “No one asked Gene Kelly, ‘Why do you dance?’” he said Tuesday during a masterclass at the Cannes Festival, Variety reported. The infamous couch-hopper also alluded to an apparently longtime fascination with risk when he told the crowd that he would jump off the roof of his childhood house using a bedsheet as a parachute.The bravado seemed to buoy him throughout his career.“I always thought there’s something that I can do and I wanted to push the art form, I thought, ‘How can I immerse an audience into a movie with this kind of action? And how can I entertain them? What can I do?’”The 59-year-old actor also reminded the crowd that he is a movie star, not a streaming star.
The Oscar-nominated actor said the option of releasing “Top Gun: Maverick” on Paramount+ during the coronavirus pandemic was “never going to happen.”“I love my audience. I make movies for audiences … I make movies for the big screen,” Cruise said.“I go to the cinema, and those people there that are serving the popcorn, that are making these theaters, and I was calling them [Paramount] saying, ‘Please, I know what you’re going through.
Just know we’re making “Mission Impossible,” “Top Gun” is coming out,’ ” Cruise continued in a video posted to Twitter. Tom Cruise on if he ever thought about releasing #TopGunMaverick on a streaming service.
“That was never going to happen.” #Cannes2022 pic.twitter.com/DgLQUYe5Pe“When I make a movie, I’m trying to use all of the skill of and everything that I know and all of the skill of all the people I work with, the beauty of cinema,” he added. “I mean.
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