Beau Bridges says ‘Jerry Maguire’ costar Tom Cruise is getting better with age
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Tom Cruise’s “Jerry McGuire” costar Beau Bridges thinks the 63-year-old actor just gets better and better with age.
“I really enjoyed working with him,” Bridges, who starred with Cruise in the ’90s romcom, told PEOPLE while attending the “Matlock” For Your Thinking event last week. “He’s an amazing actor and he gets better with age. I mean, he’s still doing all that crazy stuff and stuff. Yeah. And I love working with him. I thought he was great.”
Bridges isn’t the only actor with thoughts about Cruise’s legend.
Beau Bridges has praised Tom Cruise for his death-defying adventures throughout the years. (Getty Images)
Earlier this year, Ethan Hawke revealed that he has grown “angry” with Cruise, explaining that the “Mission: Impossible” star’s high-risk career has changed what audiences and studios expect of actors across Hollywood.
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“Tom Cruise has completely changed what’s expected of actors,” Hawke told Variety at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in February. “Part of me gets angry over the years because everyone somehow feels inferior when they use a stunt team.”
Although Cruise – who returns in “Top Gun 3” – has never appeared in a superhero movie from Marvel, DC or any other comic-book franchise, the actor cemented his position as an action movie icon by insisting on doing the most dangerous, real-world blockbusters. franchises including “Mission: Impossible,” “Top Gun” and “Jack Reacher.”
Last year, Cruise nearly broke his back while performing a stunt for “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.”
Tom Cruise attended the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. (Getty Images)
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In bonus content from the film’s digital release, Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie described the film’s most poignant sequence: a high-flying airplane battle between the actor’s character, Ethan Hunt, and Gabriel, portrayed by Esai Morales.
The scene showed Ethan jumping from one plane to another, as he held on to the air on the wing.
“Oh, this almost broke my back,” Cruise said, per Entertainment Weekly.
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“You’re talking about a lot of pain here,” McQuarrie chimed in.
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Cruise’s character was seen in the video clip grabbing the belt, holding on for dear life, as the plane turned upside down.
Tom Cruise attends the UK premiere of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One in London, June 22, 2023. (Inset photo: Cruise in a still from Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.) (Photo Credits via AP Images/Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)
“Now look at this, something we haven’t talked about yet, we’re holding on to this belt,” McQuarrie explained, while Cruise said, “Oh my God, that was brutal.
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The director went on to explain, “This took Tom’s finger joints apart and the power, so when we finished the sequence, your hands were completely swollen – oh my God, it was so painful to watch.”
During the tense scene, Cruise’s character was forced to crash into the side of the plane. When he remembers the pain, he Hollywood actor He said, “Oh, that was brutal.
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McQuarrie joked, “And you developed that, thank you very much. I appreciate that. You were like, ‘I think we’re going to need that,’ and I was like, ‘I didn’t ask you to do that.’
Fox News Digital’s Stephanie Giang-Paunon and Ashley Hume contributed to this post.
