Timothée Chalamet says Tom Cruise sent him an email with a list of experts for stunt training
“He said, in Old Hollywood, you would be getting dance training & fight training, nobody is going to hold you to that standard today. So it’s up to you.”
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– On Tom Cruise: “After I met Tom Cruise, right after finishing the first Dune, he sent me the most wonderfully inspiring email,” Chalamet said. It included a Rolodex of sorts of all the experts he might need for stunt training. A motorcycle coach. A helicopter coach. “He basically said, in Old Hollywood, you would be getting dance training and fight training, and nobody is going to hold you to that standard today. So it’s up to you. The email was really like a war cry.”
– He saw Top Gun Maverick 8 times and on one occasion, he bought out a movie theater in Budapest for two bucks a seat and took the whole cast and crew: “Top Gun was just hugely inspiring to me last summer when we were making Dune,” he said. “Some of the crew were kind of scoffing at going, but I just thought it was one of the greatest films I’ve ever seen.”
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Tom really bought into that Savior of Cinema(TM) narrative.
