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Tom Cruise says mastering movie magic is about more than acting


Speaking in London as he received a BFI fellowship, the actor praised Brando and Nicholson for knowing how to use ‘every tool’ of cinema

From sleuthing around the world as Ethan Hunt in the Mission Impossible films to whizzing through the skies as “Maverick”, Tom Cruise has always known the difference a team makes. Now, the Hollywood superstar has told fledgling thespians to take heed of this approach on set and understand the work of those behind the scenes who help make movie magic. Cruise said that after scoring his breakout role as Joel Goodson in Risky Businessin 1983, which went on to be a box-office and critical smash, he leveraged that success with the producers of Top Gun to gain more of a say in the film-making process.

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