Tom Cruise responds to Scarlett Johansson’s comments saying she would love to work with him.
The 60-year-old actress is promoting Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One In Rome, he told Entertainment Tonight on Sunday, “I would love to make a movie with him!”
The debut showed Cruise ET’s interview with 38-year-old Johansson last week. Asteroid City premiere, when he first expressed interest in working together Top Gun: Maverick star.
Cruise said he “wanted to make a movie with her” and later added, “It feels like I’m going to do it.”
“He’s very talented,” Cruise continued. “Very charismatic, versatile. He obviously has great physical ability.”
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Johansson, ‘world’s highest-paid actress’ Forbes’ His calculations in 2019 reflected on the more challenging aspects of his previous career, including a recent rejection.
“I was rejected for two roles – the first Iron Man 2 the other by Alfonso Cuarón gravity,” he said Variation last month.
He continued: “I really wanted this role. It was a kind of straw that broke the camel’s back. I felt really frustrated and hopeless. ‘Am I doing the right job?’ ”
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While Johansson wasn’t taking on the role gravityHe praised Sandra Bullock, 58, for her performance.
“I did a screen test for the movie gravitySandra Bullock is great, but I had to be like the whole spacesuit thing and pretend I was floating in some kind of space,” she recalled.
The mother of two said that Sofia Coppola’s role in the 2003 film was written like a bombshell. Lost in Translation. The stereotype hindered her growth as an actress.
“The job that was offered to me [after] it was not deeply satisfying,” he explained. “I think I’ve been offered every Marilyn Monroe script ever. ‘Is this creatively the end of the road?’ ”
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Cruise, the adrenaline junkie famous for performing his own stunts, explained how he was relaxing elsewhere in an interview on Sunday.
“This What I do is I make movies!” He told ET. “That’s it. I love it. I absolutely love it. It’s a privilege.”