I just happened to be an older woman who has recognized that knowing the truth and speaking the truth has benefited me a hell of a lot more than being silenced or seeing people silenced around me.” The “Westworld” actress says that after the interview was published she was praised for “not drinking the Kool-Aid. Newton also revealed that the ardent Scientologist gifted her with a book about the controversial religion for Christmas one year.
It just pushed me further into a place of terror and insecurity.” “And it was the most unhelpful … 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. She revealed that while filming a particularly difficult scene with the actor on “Mission Impossible 2” he decided to rehearse the scene in switched roles. In the no-holds-barred chat, Newton let loose on former Sony Pictures honcho Amy Pascal who allegedly made remarks that Newton felt were racist and “Charlie’s Angels” director McG, who she says made inappropriate comments about her body while discussing a possible role in the movie.īut it was Newton’s observations about Tom Cruise that garnered the most buzz. “I thought that I would be in trouble because that’s kind of what I’m used to.” “I was surprised by the appreciation I had got,” the English-born actress, 47, told the Variety and iHeart podcast “ The Big Ticket” on Wednesday. That was more just surreal than anything.The “Mission Impossible 2” star, who made headlines last month for her searingly honest interview with Vulture, has been buoyed by the reaction she has received. Later, Cruise called her-not, as she’d expected, to apologize, but to let her know they’d be reshooting that same scene the next week. “I described the night to him: ‘A nightmare.’” Newton later called Jonathan Demme to talk about the shoot. I saw it growing, and it was like the zit was me, just getting bigger and bigger.” “It would take anyone else 48 hours to manifest a zit. “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,” Newton said. And I really do mean bless him, because he was trying his damnedest.”Īnother fun fact about that shoot? Cruise apparently managed to grow a massive zit in record time. “It just pushed me further into a place of terror and insecurity. “And it was the most unhelpful … I can’t think of anything less revealing,” Newton said. You be me.’”Īnd so, the two filmed the entire scene in one another’s roles. Let’s just rehearse on-camera.’ So we rehearsed and they recorded it, and then he goes, ‘I’ll be you. “And he gets so frustrated with having to try and explain that he goes, ‘Let me just-let’s just go do it. “So this scene was happening, and Tom was not happy with what I was doing because I had the shittiest lines,” Newton recalled.
Director John Woo was downstairs watching them perform from a monitor. And I think he has this sense that only he can do everything as best as it can be done.”įor example? At one point, she said, the two were shooting a night scene with Cruise on a balcony, in which their characters were supposed to be frustrated with one another. “I was curious, because it’s like, Wow, if going to attract people, powerful, high-profile people, there’s got to be some glue that sticks this shit together. Didn’t find any.”īut Newton’s bizarre on-set experiences did not stop with bizarre, pseudo-religiously-themed swag. Among the Scientology swag he liked to hand out? “Like a book with the greatest hits of Scientology, a bit like a Bible kind of thing,” Newton recalled. He was “very generous and open about sharing Scientological stuff,” she said. In a broad, juicy interview with Vulture, Thandie Newton shared, among many other things, her experience working with Cruise on Mission: Impossible 2. Who would have guessed that Tom Cruise can be a little strange, even intimidating, to work with? But did you have Scientology-themed Christmas gifts on your weirdo bingo card?
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