Your servent searching for articles of cinematic value The pair are close pals and frequently speak of plans to act together but sources tell the National Enquirer Cruise is terrified a collaboration would kill his career.
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The insider claims Cruise backs down over every script Smith sends him and never returns the offer.
The source says, “Tom’s a great guy, but he sees Will as competition — a movie like ‘I Am Legend’ is the kind of role Tom used to get offered first. The feeling is that Tom fears he’ll suffer by comparison if he acts alongside Will.
He hasn’t really worked with another strong male lead since Dustin Hoffman in ‘Rain Man’.”
The source insists Smith doesn’t care, “He knows how Tom is, and it’s not going to end their friendship if they never appear on screen together.”.
The pair are close pals and frequently speak of plans to act together but sources tell the National Enquirer Cruise is terrified a collaboration would kill his career.
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The insider claims Cruise backs down over every script Smith sends him and never returns the offer.
The source says, “Tom’s a great guy, but he sees Will as competition — a movie like ‘I Am Legend’ is the kind of role Tom used to get offered first. The feeling is that Tom fears he’ll suffer by comparison if he acts alongside Will.
He hasn’t really worked with another strong male lead since Dustin Hoffman in ‘Rain Man’.”
The source insists Smith doesn’t care, “He knows how Tom is, and it’s not going to end their friendship if they never appear on screen together.”.
Cruise’s first acting role came in 1981, when he had a small role in ‘Endless Love’ , a drama/romance film starring Brooke Shields. Later that same year he had a more substantial role in the film ‘Taps’ appearing alongside George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn.
The film about military cadets was moderately successful. In 1983, he was one of many teenaged stars to appear in Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Outsiders’ was welcomed with similar success the following year when he received Academy Award nominations for Oliver Stone’s ‘Born on the Fourth of July’ , which was based on the best selling autobiography of Anti-Vietnam War hero Ron Kovic; for the first time the audience knew.
In 1990, 1991 and 1997, People magazine rated Tom among the 50 most beautiful people in the world. In 1995, Empire magazine ranked him among the 100 sexiest stars in film history. Two years later, it ranked him among the top five movie stars of all time.