The fall of Tom Cruise Jerry Maguire
After playing an intrepid airline pilot in Top Gunsa lawyer fighting against a corrupt society The company and a brilliant spy Mission ImpossibleTom Cruise plays a man who loses everything Jerry Maguire. In this film by Cameron Crowe (Almost famous, A new start) released in 1997 in France, the protagonist he plays is a rich sports agent to whom everything smiles.
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Renowned, happy in love and in privileged relationships with his clients, Jerry goes broke when one evening he begins to write a note in which he chastises the cynicism of the profession and the loss of his illusions. Fired because of his confessions and left by his partner, the agent finds himself at the bottom of the hole. As he tries to get back on his feet, he can count on the help of his colleague Dorothy (Renée Zellweger) and football player Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.).
Upon his exit, Jerry Maguire it imposes itself as a box office success, totaling more than $273.5 million in worldwide revenue. Tom Cruise won the Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy or musical, while Cuba Gooding won the Oscar for best supporting actor.
An invested actor
Initially, Cameron Crowe wanted to give the main role of his project to Tom Hanks, as he explained to Alec Baldwin in the podcast Here’s the thing in 2020. But the latter dedicates himself to his film That thing you do!, which he directs and stars in. The director then thinks of Tom Cruise, but very quickly warned. He tells it (via Assigned):
My friends took me aside and said, “When Tom Cruise takes on a role, you lose your power.” You can’t do anything anymore. It turns into an uncontrollable freight train, (…) and you can count yourself lucky if you even see the caboose.
A little worried, Cameron Crowe received a phone call from the star, who explained that he loved his script and offered to give him a reading. The director realizes that Tom Cruise is destined to play Jerry Maguire and assures that the actor has agreed not to be paid during filming. On the other hand, he is paid to promote the feature film. An exercise in which he fully invests. The director recalls:
He did it all. By the end of the week, our numbers had exploded. He came with all the strength he had to tell us: ‘Okay guys, I’ll play for free. This is what you will pay me for. I’ll go see them and give my all for this film.’
A strategy that has borne fruit.
Source: Cine Serie
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