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Three-time Oscar nominee Tom Cruise once gave his Eyes Wide Shut castmate - three-time Oscar nominee Todd Field - advice on making his feature directorial debut.
When the 58-year-old SoCal native was having difficulty adapting Andre Dubus' 1979 short story Killings, the New York-born 60-year-old scoffed: 'You're just making excuses. Figure it out.'
Todd eventually wrote the script, got the rights, cast Tom's first cousin William Mapother, and debuted his 2001 indie drama In the Bedroom at the Sundance Film Festival.
Colleagues: Three-time Oscar nominee Tom Cruise (L) once gave his Eyes Wide Shut castmate - three-time Oscar nominee Todd Field (R) - advice on making his feature directorial debut
But when Miramax Films acquired In the Bedroom, Field was devastated because he worried CEO Harvey Weinstein would 'recut his movie to shreds.'
'I was weeping in the bathroom,' the Tár filmmaker recalled to The New Yorker on Saturday.
'I called up Tom Cruise and said, "Something terrible has happened." 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."'
When the 58-year-old SoCal native (L) was having difficulty adapting Andre Dubus' 1979 short story Killings, the New York-born 60-year-old (R) scoffed: 'You're just making excuses. Figure it out'
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It's all who you know! Todd eventually wrote the script, got the rights, cast Tom's first cousin William Mapother (L), and debuted his 2001 indie drama In the Bedroom at the Sundance Film Festival
'I was weeping in the bathroom': But when Miramax Films acquired In the Bedroom, Field was devastated because he worried CEO Harvey Weinstein (R, pictured in 2002) would 'recut his movie to shreds'
Cruise told Todd to allow the 70-year-old
