Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise Reunite After Teasing If They’d Work Together Again
Tom Cruise is showing support for Brad Pitt days after the F1 star shared his one condition for working with the Mission: Impossible actor again.
Cruise, 62, made a surprise appearance at the F1 movie premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square in London on Monday, June 23, and reunited with Pitt, 61, on the red carpet. The pair shared a hug and posed for photos together, with Cruise sporting a gray suit and Pitt rocking a green ensemble.
The duo’s reunion came days after Pitt told E! News that he’s not opposed to appearing on screen with Cruise again in the future. They previously starred together in the 1994 horror film Interview With the Vampire, directed by Neil Jordan.
“I’m not gonna hang my ass off airplanes and s*** like that, so when he does something again that’s on the ground,” Pitt told the outlet at the F1 premiere in Mexico City.
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Cruise has become known for performing death-defying stunts in his Mission: Impossible films, including dangling off the side of planes, leaping across rooftops and jumping off tall buildings.
While attending the London premiere of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in May, Cruise shared that he was looking forward to seeing Pitt star in F1 and called it a “fun movie,” as seen in a clip shared by Javier Ibarreche via Instagram.
Pitt reacted to Cruise’s support in his E! interview, sharing that it was “so sweet” of the Jack Reacher star.
“He’s sweet,” he said, adding of their longtime friendship, “Yeah, we did have our go-kart days back in the ‘90s, early ‘90s. He got me in the end, I got to tell you. I gotta admit.”
Though working with Cruise may have been a highlight of Interview With the Vampire, Pitt shared in 2011 that he was mostly “miserable” while playing Louis de Pointe du Lac opposite Cruise’s Lestat de Lioncourt in the movie.
“Contact lenses, makeup, I’m playing the bitch role,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “There was no script. I knew the book, and in the book you have this guy asking, ‘Who am I?’ Which was probably applicable to me at that time. ‘Am I good? Am I of the angels? Am I bad? Am I of the devil?’ In the book, it is a guy going on this search of discovery. And in the meantime, he has this Lestat character that he’s entranced by and abhors. But then I got the script two weeks before we started shooting.”
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While Interview With the Vampire is the only movie that Cruise and Pitt have acted in together, the Bullet Train star revealed in a recent interview with Extra that they had initially been set to star in 2019’s Ford vs. Ferrari. Pitt had been slated to portray Ken Miles, while Cruise was set to play Carroll Shelby. Additionally, Pitt said that F1 director Joseph Kosinski was planned to direct.
Pitt revealed in another interview with GQ that budget issues led the film to go in another direction. James Mangold ultimately directed the project, with Christian Bale starring as Miles and Matt Damon landing the role of Shelby.
