‘I never want to make a movie like this again’: Tom Cruise regrets 40 years of starring in this fantasy

Yes, even the star of Top Gun and Mission: Impossible doesn’t always win! In a career that now spans more than four decades, Tom Cruise has achieved plenty of success in film, but has also worked with many great directors, from Martin Scorsese (The Color of Money) to Brian Palm (Mission: Impossible), including Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia) and even Stanley Kubrick (Eyes Wide Shut).

And the 62-year-old actor has also appeared in front of the camera once for Ridley Scott, who is credited with Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator – to name a few. However, there is a film that Tom Cruise At that time, they wanted to delete it from the filmography, but today it is no longer the case.

The film is a legend, a fantasy tale in which the Edge of Tomorrow star plays Jack, an outdoorsy young man in love with the young and beautiful princess Lily (Mia Sara). However, he also wanted the Dark One (Tim Carr), the true embodiment of evil, who only dreams of plunging the world into eternal night by killing the two guardian unicorns. With the help of the leprechaun and his associates, Jack embarks on a desperate quest to put an end to the demon’s actions and prevent Lily from turning into an evil being…

The film opened late in theaters and was not particularly well received by the press—in addition to being a commercial failure, it grossed $23.5 million against a budget of $25 to $30 million.

A year later, in an interview with Rolling Stone, Tom Cruise admitted that legend There was a mistake, then the conclusion: “I never want to make a movie like this again.”

Today he is remembered differently

During the press tour for 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick, the actor finally addressed the setback in more detail and spoke much more positively about the subject (via Interview magazine).

“First, it was redundant. The press picked up and exaggerated them. This is a movie-movie. There was a lot of post-production. Ridley directed a fairy tale, an innovative visual film. I think the work in the studio was a little too romantic. So instead of just letting it go, Ridley said, “Okay, let’s go back and re-compose the music to give it a little more challenging edge. Now it is ready.“

He continued: “The legend was something interesting. I don’t know how Harrison Ford He has shot many films of this genre. I mean, I did it team spiritAnd I was like, “Well, I’ve been at both extremes of high school life. I did it’. In legend, I am this magical character, Jack O’Green. The set was huge. Sometimes we would work on a scene that might be 30 seconds into the movie but would take a week to shoot. It’s haunting and beautiful and poetic, and most of the time I watched Black Tape and had to imagine it. It was exciting, but it made me want to do something like Top Gun.“

So the actor took advantage of this experience and ended up with a pretty magical memory. Moreover, this failure did not at all damage his career and did not prevent him from rising: after all, you know the rest. however, Tom Cruise He never made another film Ridley Scott !

Legend can be (re)discovered on VOD.