Cruise said people ask why he is so keen on doing his own stunts in his action movies. “But, you know, no one asked Gene Kelly, ‘Why do you dance?’”
, the theme song by Kenny Loggins from the first film, blasted out over the Croisette as the stars mounted the famous red-carpeted steps of the Grand Lumiere Theatre. Then came the piece de resistance: a fly-past of eight French fighter jets trailing red, white and blue vapour trails. For a moment, the crowds stopped shouting, “Tom, Tom!” with their phones at the ready and stared upwards, and there was a collective gasp., directed by the late Tony Scott, came out in 1986.
Cruise’s on-stage interview gave some clues as to how action heroes are made. Cruise said he knew he wanted to be in films by the time he was four years old, although he was also keen to fly planes. “I wanted to have an adventure,” he said. “I was a kid who would climb the tallest tree in the wind. I wanted that. And I wanted to do that and to make it part of story and characters.
Cruise, centre, with Greg Tarzan Davis, Keleigh Sperry, Linda Bruckheimer, Jennifer Connelly, festival director Thierry Fremaux, and Jon Hamm during the fighter jets show.As a producer, he said, he “wanted to push the art form. How could I immerse an audience in a movie with this kind of action?” The answer wasis directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, who also produced the firstafter 36 years? Why now?’” said Cruise. “But I wasn’t ready in 1986.
Like everyone else who has come to Cannes, Cruise makes a point of saying how good it is to be back in the cinema. He waves a hand across the breadth of the theatre. “Look at us all together, all united, all speaking different languages, from different cultures, different ideas about art, cinema and storytelling, but we are able to come together as a community and have a shared experience.” That’s not something you can get at home.
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