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Tom Cruise Talks Dueling With Jack Nicholson, Forcing Studios To Embrace International Markets & Why He Spent Years Avoiding Proposals For ‘Top Gun’ Sequels

Tom Cruise will be handed the BFI Fellowship on Monday.

But back in 1996, what made a young Tom Cruise, red hot in Hollywood thanks to hits like A Few Good Men and Interview with the Vampire, board the spy thriller? Previous Fellowship honorees include Spike Lee, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Satyajit Ray, Tilda Swinton, David Lean, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Steve McQueen, Akira Kurosawa, Nicholas Roeg, Orson Welles, Ridley Scott, Ousmane Sembène, Bernardo Bertolucci and Souleymane Cissé. Cruise stars with Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Mariela Garriga and Angela Bassett.

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