Tom Cruise gets shot by Mickey Rourke, words are heavy

While Tom Cruise has pushed the boundaries of retirement by reasserting himself in his role as a test pilot in Top Gun 2 by Joseph Kosinski, actor Mickey Rourke went freewheeling by paying the Hollywood star on the occasion of an American television show. And he didn’t mince his words.

Ever closer to the stars

With Top Gun: Maverickreleased on May 25, the actor Tom Cruise has once again been elevated to the rank of cinema superstar. It enjoyed considerable media coverage during the Cannes Film Festival and in the international press in general.

The film itself is a success, praised by the specialized press, Top Gun: Maverick has just exceeded 5 million admissions in France. This is the highest score in terms of entries since the beginning of the year, far ahead Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (more than 3.2 million entries). A huge success for the return of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, 36 years after the release of the first part in 1986.

Rourke boxing Tom Cruise

A great architect of the success of the film, the character embodied by Tom Cruise is well written, and perfectly embodies the link between the past and present generation. Still, it’s not to everyone’s taste, and especially the former boxer and actor. Mickey Rourke.

Invited during an American television show, the actorIron Man 2 completely let loose on the 60-year-old American comedian, calling it “insignificant” or “unimportant“, when he was asked about his performance on the film Top Gun 2 :

That means nothing to me, he’s been playing the same damn role for 35 years. I have no respect for that. I don’t care about money or power. When I look at the work of Al Pacino or Christopher Walken, or De Niro in his early days, Richard Harris and Ray Winstone, that’s the kind of actor I envy. Like Montgomery Clift, Brando at the time. All the guys who tried to renew themselves as actors.”

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Words are harsh on the star of the franchise Impossible missionof The War of the Worldss of Minority Report or even of Collateral. The figure he embodies in Top Gun 2 resembles that of an indestructible actor who refuses to give in.

A career still far from over

While Tom Cruise can easily be categorized as a die-hard action movie actor, his few roles in movies like Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick, for example, proves that he remains an actor who knows how to be versatile and reinvent himself.

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In any case, Cruise’s career is not over, far from it. He will be showing at Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 and Part 2which will be released in France on July 12, 2023 and June 26, 2024.

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Tom Cruise gets shot by Mickey Rourke, words are heavy