It wouldn’t be the first time he’s saved director Todd Field, we learned this week, and the Top Gun star knows a thing or two about shifting tickets
, Field brings up Cruise twice. The first instance comes when he talks about Eyes Wide Shut, in which he scored a small role. According to the interview, Field treated the shoot like a kind of director camp, following Stanley Kubrick around and asking him technical questions. And this caught Tom Cruise’s attention. Cruise took Field out to dinner and told him: “You’re going to make movies.
“He basically said, ‘This is how you’re going to play it. It’s going to take you six months, and you’ll beat him, but you have to do exactly what I’m going to tell you to do, step by step,’” Field says of Cruise. The plan, in summary, was to let Harvey Weinstein edit the film as much as he wanted, then wait for it to test badly, as it almost definitely would, before reminding him of all the good reviews it had received in its original form.
So, for anyone keeping score, Tom Cruise is the man who persuaded Todd Field to let go of his fear and meet his destiny as a film director. And Tom Cruise is the man who ensured that Todd Field would become a critical darling, rather than yet another nameless director crushed beneath the wheels of Harvey Weinstein’s grotesque egomania.
Not only does this make Tom Cruise sound like both a good guy and a powerful industry ally, it also sets up the dazzling possibility that Cruise simply exists to help Todd Field out of trouble. Perhaps, the next time Todd Field stumbles on the way home from the supermarket and drops fruit all over a busy road, Tom Cruise will rush in out of nowhere and stop all the surrounding traffic from hitting him.
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