Cameron Crowe shares Clint Eastwood’s prediction for which actor shall be a legend ‘in 100 years’

Clint Eastwood can see the long run, apparently, and it's trying mighty brilliant for one in all in the present day's largest stars.

Whereas selling his upcoming memoir, The Uncool, which shall be revealed subsequent month, director Cameron Crowe revealed in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times that Eastwood as soon as instructed him his prediction for who shall be a legend 100 years from now: Tom Cruise.

The revelation happened when the Jerry Maguire and Vanilla Sky director was requested about his perspective on Tom Cruise's profession within the final 10 years, throughout which the actor has targeted on big-budget movies just like the Mission: Unimaginable collection, which the outlet famous are "very completely different from the character-driven performances that he gave for [Crowe]." The outlet then requested if he thinks Cruise's pursuits have modified for the reason that two labored collectively within the aforementioned movies.

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"I see that there’s a time coming, and it may need already began, the place he’s going to segue into character roles as strongly as he segued into doing motion films of the best high quality," Crowe mentioned of Cruise. "That Paul Newman character part is simply across the nook and can fry folks’s minds."

He continued, "I believe what Tom does is he turns into an absolute pupil in no matter he's attaching himself to. In fact he's going to have one of the best stunts, in fact he's going to have performed the work to know the way to do that and that — when that Paul Newman part begins, he's going to use the identical sort of ardour to it, and it's going to be wonderful."

The discuss of Cruise reminded Crowe of a celebration at which he and Eastwood bonded over their shared adoration for the High Gun star.

"I’ll inform you one little factor: I’ve the identical lawyer as Clint Eastwood, and he invited me to a cocktail party," Crowe recalled. "He sat me subsequent to Clint Eastwood, and I used to be so nervous. What do you say to Clint Eastwood? So I’m sitting there and Clint Eastwood leans over and says, 'Tom Cruise.' And I’m going: 'Oh, man, Tom Cruise. I like working with Tom Cruise.' And he goes, 'In 100 years, they’re gonna look again — that’s the profession, Tom Cruise’s profession.'"

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Crowe then added his personal prediction of Cruise: "That's the profession to look at. When every thing melts away and turns into easy statements of what occurred in a time in historical past, you're going to learn Tom Cruise's title."

Along with Vanilla Sky and Jerry Maguire, Cruise additionally produced Crowe's 2005 movie Elizabethtown and Crowe had an uncredited function as a bus passenger within the Cruise-starring Minority Report.

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