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Breaking Baz: Paula Wagner On Why Tom Cruise Remains A Shining Star, Her Part In The ‘Mission: Impossible’ Franchise, A New Film About John Fogerty & Creedence, And The Art Of Teaching Disruption
Paula Wagner’s mission was to help make Tom Cruise a huge star and to launch the 'Mission Impossible' movies, she says in an interview with Baz Bamigboye.
EXCLUSIVE: Paula Wagner, the one-time budding actress-turned-superagent-turned studio owner in partnership with Tom Cruise, who helped produce the first three Mission:Impossible movies, was asked a question several years ago by students at DePaul University in Chicago that she was amply qualified to answer: What is a star? I’ve often wondered why Cruise’s greatest performances in pictures like Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July, Sydney Pollack’s The Firm, Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men, Cameron Crowe’s Jerry Maguire, Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, the Top Gun films, some — but not all — of the Mission: Impossible movies and there are others, are sniffed at by some critics. However, we’re running out of time, so I switch to the age-old question of women and men in the entertainment business, particularly thespians, and why it’s fine for Tom Cruise, for instance, to still be at the front of the field at 62 — and if he wants, he can still get the girl — but female actors generally get shown show at a much younger age.
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