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Tom Cruise Urges Young Actors to Learn Filmmaking Tech, Which Is ‘Not Taught in Film Schools’: ‘Brando Understood Lighting. All the Greats Did’


Tom Cruise says young actors need to learn about the craft of filmmaking, which film schools don't always teach in acting programs.

Tom Cruise took a moment while receiving a British Film Institute Fellowship (via Times of London) to urge young actors to learn about the craft of filmmaking. Cruise is so adamant about actors learning filmmaking craft that he put together his own six-hour film school video to show up-and-coming performers. Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” co-star Glen Powell revealed to GQ UK magazine last year that he got the chance to watch all six hours of the video in a movie theater alone.

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