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Perth Now
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Tom Cruise: I don't want to be the last movie star
Tom Cruise hopes he's not the "last movie star". The 62-year-old actor has enjoyed a hugely successful career in the movie business, starring in films such as 'Risky Business', 'Top Gun' and 'The Color of Money' - but Tom hopes that up-and-coming actors will fill the void that he'll leave behind, despite the changing landscape in Hollywood. Asked if he might be the last true movie star, Tom - who is currently promoting in 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' - told 'Entertainment Tonight': "I don't want to be. "There's so many other talented actors out there and I want to see them crush it." Tom actually highlighted 'Sinners' star Michael B. Jordan as one of the brightest talents in Hollywood. The veteran actor admitted to being wowed by 'Sinners', the recently-released supernatural horror film, and revealed that he'd love to work with Michael, 38, one day. Speaking about Michael's success, Tom said: "I'm a huge fan of his. That film 'Sinners' is amazing. "We're going to make a movie together." Tom recently took to social media to reveal that he watched 'Sinners' in a cinema and was wowed by the Ryan Coogler-directed film. He wrote on X at the time: "Congratulations Ryan, Michael, and to the entire cast and crew. Must see in a cinema and stay through the end credits!" Tom subsequently confirmed that he would "love" to work with Michael one day. The award-winning star urged fans to see 'Sinners' for themselves, describing the horror as a "great film". Speaking to 'Extra', Tom explained: "Huge fan of his, huge fan of what he and Coogler do together. Great film, great film. "I recommend everyone go and see that picture many, many times. You know, you want to see it on the big screen." Tom believes Michael - who previously starred in the 'Creed' and 'Black Panther' film franchises - is an "enormously talented" actor. The movie icon also confirmed that he's eager to collaborate with Michael on a film project. Tom said: "He's enormously talented, very charismatic, great actor. I look forward to, I'd love to make a movie with him. "I've already put it out there ... Years ago, when I first met him, I was like, 'This guy, I'd like to make movies with him.'" What's more, Tom recently confirmed that he has no plans to retire from the movie business. The actor actually hopes to still be making movies "into [his] 100s". Asked about his long-term career plans, Tom told The Hollywood Reporter: "I'm going to make them into my 100s. "I will never stop. I will never stop doing action, I will never stop doing drama, comedy films - I'm excited."
Boston Globe
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
‘Stick' gathers a rag tag group to mentor the next golf star
Then Pryce, a hustler and a schemer at heart, discovers the 17-year-old Santi (Peter Dager), who has serious game, and impulsively decides to cash in everything to try and make him into a star. He coughs up $100,000 (his share of the house) for the right to coach Santi and take him on the road. Advertisement Pryce, his loyal but curmudgeonly former caddy Mitts ( whom Pryce enlists to help out, pack into an RV and head out on the amateur tour. As miscommunications abound and hijinks ensue, Pryce becomes a comedic, big-hearted version of Fast Eddie Felson in 'The Color of Money,' with Santi as his Vincent and Zero as Carmen. Advertisement That's a long way from what happened in Ron Keller's career, but his son sees a strong connection. 'My dad didn't wash out of sports, but made a calculated decision to go into business and it turned out well,' Jason Keller says. Nonetheless, 'in many ways he was the inspiration for this character.' 'I've always been fascinated by gifted athletes who are saddled with high expectations but don't achieve those levels of success and what it does to their psyche, to how they see themselves ,and to their relationships,' says Keller, who wrote ' Exploring how those athletes handle the rest of their lives intrigues Keller as a contrast to America's culture of success. 'Our country is so outcome-focused that anything short of winning championships is a failure,' he says, adding that he tried imbuing the show with a philosophy of not dwelling on past mistakes and understanding that 'the only thing that you can control is the moment you have right now.' Keller set out to make a comedy about found family that even people who don't like golf will enjoy. For 'checks and balances,' his staff was filled with comedy writers, not golf fanatics; when he'd say something technical about the sport 'five of the seven writers would raise their hands and say, 'I don't understand what you're saying.'' But there were pro golfers on the set every day and 'they were empowered to have a voice, too.' Advertisement The cast, which also features Timothy Olyphant in a guest role, was also encouraged to provide input, Keller says. 'Owen had a real point of view and was always saying, 'What if we pushed the comedy here just a little bit, or pulled back here,'' Keller says, noting that Wilson is the type of star who is 'deep-thinking and emotional, who is able to access a vulnerable place. But he's also a brilliant writer himself.' (Wilson shared a Best Screenplay Oscar nomination for 'The Royal Tenenbaums.') Maron also had plenty of suggestions, Keller adds. 'I didn't use everything, but it led us to something that was better on the page.' Judy Greer in "Stick." Apple TV+ Greer, who knows Keller socially, says she doesn't remember chiming in, but adds 'I'm not saying I didn't do that, because I can be really mouthy, especially to my friends.' She was drawn to 'Stick' partially for the chance to work with Keller and with Wilson — 'I like working with friends and being part of cool stuff so it doesn't always have to be about me or my role' — but she also liked that Amber-Linn 'is compassionate, but not a doormat. I didn't feel like she was like the ex-wife pining. She's ready to move on and she wants him to move on.' Greer says Keller also left room for the cast to improvise. 'Probably none of it ended up in the show because we're never as funny as we think we are,' she adds. 'Don't tell the writers I said this, but in the end it's usually exactly right on the page and we usually end up back there. But improvising is helpful because you're expanding your character's vocabulary and you're listening and responding to the other actor, so it helps you connect.' Advertisement Dager says finding the right comedic timing is always important, but especially with Wilson, 'who has such a distinctive kind of delivery that you need to be on the same page.' Wilson was helpful on the set between scenes and also went to hockey games with Dager, a 22-year-old from Miami who had to audition through seven rounds to land Santi, his first big role. (In fact, this was his first-ever interview and he made a point to note that his mother, who went to Emerson College, was thrilled that it was for the Boston Globe.) Dager definitely did not win the part for his golf skills. 'I had picked up a golf club once before because my mom was getting into it, so I have a video of me just really, really sucking,' he says. He trained for two months after landing the role and says he 'still kind of sucks.' But he says he can now make it look good, and that he became 'obsessed' with actually being on camera swinging (as opposed to a stunt double). 'I got to do that a couple of times.' He also had to find a way inside Santi's guarded nature. 'He's a pessimist because he's been scarred, but I'm an optimist and love to invite life in, so it was hard for me to find that wall to put up,' Dager says. Advertisement The one thing he relates to easily is Santi's competitive drive, although for him it's about striving to become the best actor, not a PGA champion. 'I've been obsessed with acting since I was eight-years-old, so I correlate his love of his sport to my love of acting,' Dager says. 'Those moments of intensity about nailing it [on the golf course] that he feels, I have in every scene,' he says. 'I'm always thinking, 'I've got to get this. I've got to get this.''
Los Angeles Times
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
A cranky Kevin Costner and a resilient Uma Thurman: 5 juicy stories from Maureen Dowd's ‘Notorious' interviews
Maureen Dowd has been profiling the rich, famous and powerful for the New York Times since the 1980s. As she writes in her new collection, 'Notorious,' 'I've always been fascinated by how powerful people wield power, how charismatic people create charisma, how talented people nurture or squander their talent.' She has a knack for asking questions that go right up to the edge of intrusion but instead yield thoughtful, intimate insights. 'Notorious' features conversations with everyone from Uma Thurman to Elon Musk, from Paul Newman to Mel Brooks. We picked five of the juiciest tidbits and anecdotes. 'They say life is just a series of snapshots,' Dowd writes. 'This book certainly is. It's pioneering, talented, brilliant people at a certain moment in their lives — and those moments can be illuminating.' Dowd confesses that Costner was once a 'big crush' of hers. That was before she interviewed him in 1991 in New Orleans. 'Things got off to a bad start as we were walking through the French Quarter to his hotel for the interview,' Dowd writes. 'A group of sweet seniors shyly asked Costner to pose for a picture with them as he waited at a red light, tapping his cowboy boot in irritation.' 'OK,' he snapped at the women, 'but can't you see I'm being interviewed?' Dowd writes: 'It was like watching someone kick kittens.' As the interview progressed, Costner asked Dowd, 'with cocky assurance,' if she was going to play the interview tape for her girlfriends. 'I told him starchily, 'I interviewed Paul Newman and didn't play that tape for my girlfriends. So I think I can refrain from playing yours.'' When Dowd interviewed Jane Fonda in 2020, she asked the movie star/workout queen/bête noire of the right wing if she wanted to have sex with Che Guevara. 'No, I don't think about him,' Fonda replied. 'Who I do think about, and what is a great regret, is Marvin Gaye. He wanted to and I didn't. I was married to Tom [Hayden]. I was meeting a lot of performers to try to do concerts for Tom and the woman who was helping me do that introduced me to Marvin Gaye.' Dowd: 'Please tell me his pickup line included the words 'sexual healing.'' Fonda: 'I needed some but he didn't say that, no. But then I read, apparently he had my picture on his refrigerator. I didn't find that out until later, after he was dead.' One of my favorite pieces in 'Notorious' is Dowd's profile of Newman. Published in 1986, shortly before the release of 'The Color of Money' (for which he would finally win his first Oscar), the story shows Newman to be a relatable and humorous conversation partner — and very self-conscious about being seen as a sex symbol. It is worth quoting at length. 'To the public, the actor's cerulean eyes have become a symbol of his stardom. To Newman, they have become a symbol of his long struggle to be thought of as a craftsman. 'To work as hard as I've worked to accomplish anything and then have some yo-yo come up and say, 'Take off those dark glasses and let's have a look at those blue eyes' is really discouraging. 'It's as though someone said, 'Open your mouth and let me see your gums,' or 'Open your blouse and let me see your chest.' The thing I've never figured out is, how do you present eyes? Do you present them coyly? Do you present them boldly? Usually, I just say, 'I would take off my sunglasses, madam, but my pants would fall down.'' In Dowd's 2018 profile of Thurman, the actress talks about dangerous encounters with two men. One is Harvey Weinstein, whose sexual assaults have been well chronicled (Thurman 'wriggled' away from his attacks). The other is Quentin Tarantino, who, Thurman says, had her drive an unsafe car on the set of 'Kill Bill,' which she crashed and was left badly injured. 'Uma Thurman said she didn't want to drive this car,' Dowd writes. 'She said she had been warned that there were issues with it. She felt she had to do it anyway.' 'The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me,' Thurman says. 'I felt this searing pain and thought, 'Oh, my God, I'm never going to walk again.' When I came back from the hospital in a neck brace with my knees damaged and a large egg on my head and a concussion, I wanted to see the car and I was very upset. Quentin and I had an enormous fight, and I accused him of trying to kill me. And he was very angry at that, I guess understandably, because he didn't feel he had tried to kill me.' 'Oftentimes,' Dowd writes, 'famous people are just giving you a well-rehearsed riff that they've given thousands of times before. But sometimes, you can lead them to some weird subject that gets them off script. And occasionally, they'll simply surprise you.' One such surprise came in 2013, when Dowd interviewed Craig. 'The very cool Daniel Craig told me that he and Rachel Weisz had a ban on technology devices in the bedroom and recommended that for everyone,' she writes. ''If the iPad goes to bed, I mean, unless you're both watching porn on the internet, it's a killer,'' he said. And scene.
