Liam Gaughan is a writer at Collider with a passion for classic films and the work of Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
The Big Picture Tom Cruise is most closely associated with the action genre these days due to the success of Top Gun and Mission: Impossible, but in the 1990s, it seemed like he made it a goal to work with nearly every great filmmaker on a prestige project. Between Sydney Pollack’s The Firm, Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men, Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire, and Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, Cruise showed a surprising amount of discretion in the risky projects that he joined.
In 2017, Crowe told NBC Sports that the role “was originally written with Tom Hanks in mind,” and that he “had this wonderful conversation with Tom Hanks, and people were waiting in the next room for the answer.” Crowe found that he was “high on the Tom Hanks personality charisma.” However, Hanks was busy working on his directorial effort That Thing You Do!, and could not commit to Crowe’s project.
'Jerry Maguire' Lets Tom Cruise Get Vulnerable On paper, Hanks seemed like a more obvious choice for the role. While he had a newfound prestige thanks to his back-to-back Academy Award wins for Best Actor in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, he was still at his core a comedic actor that had shown his aptitude within the rom-com genre.
'Jerry Maguire' Is Proof That Tom Cruise Should Do More Romantic Movies Close That level of vulnerability is something Hanks has utilized throughout his career, and a reason why his romantic comedies with Ryan are so endearing to this day. It makes perfect sense why he would have been someone that Crowe had in mind, but casting Cruise forced the Mission: Impossible star to show that same romantic vulnerability that had been absent in his filmography since the late 1980s.
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