They say the internet is forever and that’s what might be happening here after a 2009 interview with Tom Cruise‘s co-star resurfaced. Bronson Pinchot, who is currently starring in Netflix’s had some curious insight about working the superstar that is worth a revisit.
The interview was conducted with which took a look back at his career from to his 1980s hit sitcom, . So, naturally, they asked him about his film debut in 1983’s with Cruise — and he did not hold back. He admitted that no one on the set knew the movie was going to be a “big hit,” but they were all very young actors navigating their way through Hollywood at the time. “Tom was 20, I was 23,” Pinchot revealed while admitting he didn’t love Cruise’s very method acting choices.
“Tom had picked up this knack of calling everyone by their character names because that would probably make your performance better, and I don’t agree with that. I think that acting is acting, and the rest of the time, you should be you, but he called us all by our character names,” he continued. Pinchot also claimed that Cruise was “the biggest bore on the face of the Earth.” LOL — that’s quite the statement. However, he also accused his rising co-star of making “constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments” and Pinchot thought that Cruise was hit with karma when “people started to torment him with [those same type of comments].”
Homophobia is never funny and Cruise’s rep at the time did respond to those claims, telling , “Obviously, this is so far removed from who Tom Cruise is as a person, this must have been said in jest.” Pinchot’s resurfaced comments about this work ethic, though, do give a glimpse of how intense Cruise can be on set. It’s something that Rob Lowe, Cruise’s co-star on , has talked about over the years.
“[Director] Francis [Ford Coppola] also thought that we should all be gymnasts, for some reason. So, we all had to learn to do backflips. Tom took it so seriously. If you see , the movie is playing and the movie just stops dead and Tom does a backflip off of a car,” Lowe shared on the podcast. “[Tom was] ambitious, never met anybody more ambitious, and I am ambitious. There was a lot of one-upping going on…Tom’s part of Steve Randle was not a huge part, but Tom being Tom, he was ambitious.”