I am a black woman, from a conventional stereotype. I am not even supposed to be viable anymore. I thought that I would be in trouble because that's kind of what I'm used to. Speaking to The Big Ticket podcast, Newton explained: I was surprised by the appreciation I had got. The 47-year-old actress claimed last month that she struggled to work alongside Cruise, admitting to feeling scared of him on the set of Mission: Impossible 2. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.Thandie Newton thought her recent comments about Tom Cruise would get her in trouble. “I’ve never actually outright asked her, but when your husband is like, ‘Who would you mind me pretending to shag for the next six months?’ You know what I mean? It’s kind of nice if you can pick together,” Newton said. The two actresses knew each other from their roles in 1991’s “Flirting.” In the end she was grateful for the role - and thanked none other than Cruise’s ex-wife Nicole Kidman, who apparently advocated for Newton in casting.

AFP via Getty ImagesĬruise’s reps have not responded to The Post’s requests for comment. They eventually reshot the scene to Cruise’s liking, but it wasn’t “the best way to get the best work out of someone.” The cast of the film “Mission: Impossible 2” poses at the film’s premiere at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, on May 18, 2000.

“And it was like the zit was me, just getting bigger and bigger.”Įvangelistic Scientology gifts aside, the experience was a “nightmare,” she said. “I remember at the beginning of the night, seeing this slight red mark on his nose, and by the end of the night, I kid you not - this is how his metabolism is so fierce - he had a big whitehead where that red dot was,” she said. It just pushed me further into a place of terror and insecurity.”Īfter a while on the set, she came to perceive her own acting chops as a growing problem - much like her co-star’s own complexion. I can’t think of anything less revealing. “So we filmed the entire scene with me being him - because, believe me, I knew the lines by then - and him playing me,” she said. His solution? To rehearse the scene in switched roles. The actress - who played Nyah Nordoff-Hall, a former thief turned spy for the Impossible Missions Force - described a particularly difficult scene with Cruise, in which the actor got increasingly frustrated with Newton’s performance. That trait appeared to be on display on the set of “Mission: Impossible 2,” where Cruise “was a very dominant individual,” Newton said. Newton and Cruise in “Mission: Impossible 2.” ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Col It gives you a kind of confidence that is helpful for people who want to be actors.” The church has not responded to The Post’s requests for comment. He’s also reportedly “ considered a deity within Scientology” and lower ranking members are allegedly ordered to see Cruise’s movies multiple times.įormer Scientology member Geoff Levin told The Post about “ a type of arrogance that Scientology instills in you. The “Westworld” star, 47, opened up about what it was like to work with Cruise on the set of 2000’s “Mission: Impossible 2” in the revealing interview, which also included her telling of why she left the cast of “Charlie’s Angels” and other tales of survival from her decadeslong career.Īfter receiving the book from Cruise, 58, Newton said she was curious as to whether there was “some glue that sticks this s - - t together,” she said, referring to the credibility of the tome.Ĭruise, a longtime adherent of Scientology, has reportedly signed a billion-year contract of service with the Church of Scientology, The Post reported, based off the book “ Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief by journalist Lawrence Wright. If Thandie Newton’s Christmas experience is anything to go by, you might get “a book with the greatest hits of Scientology, a bit like a Bible kind of thing,” as she told New York magazine. Tom Cruise is probably the last person you’d want to draw your name in a game of Secret Santa. 'Mission: Impossible' cruised into the No. Tom Cruise backs striking actors union in surprise appearance during negotiating session, blasts use of AI Tom Cruise slammed as ‘egocentric control freak’ by Hollywood scribe who worked with him

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