Tom Cruise: Deadline’s How They Reached The Top (GALLERY)
, Cruise was “laser-focused” on achieving greatness, Val Kilmer recalls in his memoir, looking to become not only one of the most iconic and commercially successful actors of all time, but also perhaps the most athletic, regularly pulling off stunts that no one else would dare attempt. There will never be another one like him.
Here, we chart the methodical growth of a star who has shown courage and pluck and mostly making strong choices along the way. That will include his greatest ever stunt, which will be to head up to space with frequent collaborator Doug Liman and shoot the first narrative feature that way.In a cast that included Tim Hutton, George C. Scott and Sean Penn, Cruise got his ‘who’s that guy?’ moment as a gung-ho military student who goes out in a blaze of gunfire.
. I sat with Ron Kovic and said, I’ve been offered this; how do you feel about it? It was really a job interview.”The film adaptation of the old CBS spy series might have seemed like just another job, but at closer inspection, Cruise had been an action hero in training since boyhood. He sold greeting cards door to door, cut grass and raked leaves in Canada and Kentucky to buy his first motorcycle at 12, which he crashed doing stunts. A double gymnastic flip left him with a broken ankle .
It is still hard to even look at photos of Cruise scaling the perimiter of the Burj Khalifa, 124 floors high in Dubai. Cruise shugged when I asked him about it, saying that if he’d done the stunt 20 floors up and fell, he’d die. Why not an extra 100 floors? But the truth is that it was a nail biter of a day for Cruise, director Brad Bird, and the stunt team. But their meticulous attention to detail won the day.
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