Tom Cruise is one actor whose skills and looks stand out in the most iconic manner possible. Being an actor of such caliber, he stands proud of the massive filmography that he has built. Throughout his years in the profession, he has worked with some of the most brilliant actors and directors. Whether it is a romantic film or one driven by action, he is willing to give his best no matter what.
Despite having worked with so many different and talented individuals, one director who Cruise almost got an opportunity to work with was none other than Richard Curtis. It wasn’t until Genie that Curtis’s dream came true. At least, to some extent anyways. However, the case does remain that if not an entire ocean of possibilities, even a drop in the midst of an oasis is heavenly.
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Tom Cruise Made an Unlikely and Indirect Cameo in Genie
Richard Curtis, while in an interview with People Magazine, talked about how there is a three-second long clip of Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible in Genie, where Melissa McCarthy developed a sense of attraction towards the actor. However, it was not that the clip was added without asking the actor himself.
“I don’t know whether it’s a favor to me and Melissa or whether someone in the mail room said, ‘This sounds okay.’ But it means that after all these years, I’ve at last made a Tom Cruise movie.”
He asked through the actor’s people if there was a way in which he could incorporate a joke regarding Cruise without adding any offense whatsoever. He even jested about how his lifelong dream of working with Tom Cruise in a film actually came through via the means of even a silly little skit that played about expressing McCarthy’s character’s adoration towards Cruise himself.
Richard Curtis’s Chance That Slipped Away
Richard Curtis also talked about how lovely he found Tom Cruise to be. While speaking with People, he revealed that there had been a movie that Cruise and he were working on, one that never came out. The disappointment of the same was something that lingered since he always wanted to make a film with the actor.
“I’m lucky enough to know Tom a bit. He’s always been very sweet to me. And we worked on a film for a while, which didn’t happen.”
