![]() ![]() Photograph: Allstar/PARAMOUNT PICTURES/Sportsphoto Ltd./AllstarĬruise took more risks. They would – for good and bad – thanks to him. “People looked at me a little cross-eyed because it was a TV series and at that time people weren’t really doing that,” said Cruise. When he first pitched the idea to Paramount in 1992, the studio did a double-take. Cruise remembered Mission: Impossible, one of his favorite childhood TV shows, where the heroes used their brains, not bullets. Back then, that meant mimicking Stallone, Schwarzenegger or Seagal. ![]() “I’d been looking for an action movie,” said Cruise. But when he formed Cruise/Wagner Productions in the 90s and decided to produce his own movies, he needed a hit. For the first decade of his movie stardom, he chased Oscars, not villains, and if his characters wrestled anything, it was their own guilt and privilege. “There was no room for a sequel,” he shrugged. In the 80s, he turned down Top Gun 2 to make The Color of Money and Rain Man. Before he became Ethan Hunt, Cruise refused to shoot a gun or a sequel. Mission: Impossible is also an outlier on his resume. Kudos to Cruise for making the most of a career he never meant to have. ![]()
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