Demi Moore has claimed that Tom Cruise was ‘awkward’ about her pregnancy when they worked on A Few Good Men.
The Hollywood icons joined forces in 1992 for the film A Few Good Men, from director Rob Reiner, which was a smash hit and nominated for four Oscars.
But ahead of filming, things were slightly less smooth sailing.
Demi, 62, has claimed that during a preproduction table read, the Top Gun actor seemed ‘uncomfortable’ that Demi was eight months pregnant.
During a Q&A with Jia Tolentino at the New Yorker Festival, she revealed, per People: ‘I think Tom was quite embarrassed.’
‘I actually felt okay about it. I was moving around, though, right? But I could tell he felt that it was a bit awkward.’
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The film follows the court-martial of two U.S. Marines who have been charged with the murder of a fellow Marine, and how their legal teams prepare for court.
Demi and Tom played the lawyers in the courtroom thriller, which also starred Jack Nicholson, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Kevin Bacon.
At the time, Demi was pregnant with her second child, Scout Willis, with her then-husband Bruce Willis, with whom she also shares daughters Tallulah and Rumer.
Demi added that perhaps Tom was uncomfortable, as many women on screen were not mothers, and there was immense pressure to choose between a career and motherhood.
‘It’s one of the many things, for me, that I just felt didn’t make sense. And so I challenged that to say, you know, “Why not? Why can’t you have both?”
‘But with that, I think, came a lot of pressure I put on myself to, in a sense, prove that it was possible.’
At the time of filming, Tom didn’t have any children, but the same year the film was released, he and his then-wife, Nicole Kidman, adopted their 32-year-old daughter Bella.
This took place in December 1992 after the couple suffered a miscarriage. The couple also later adopted Connor Cruise, and Tom also had a child named Suri, 19, with his third wife, Katie Holmes.
She added that she began working out to get back in shape before her daughter was born.
‘I was going to be in a military uniform, and probably overly anticipated and started working out and trying to get in shape even before she was born,’ the Substance star said.
‘I did a two-and-a-half-hour hike the day my water broke. I did a 24-mile bike ride, and then was dancing at a reggae club — hence she came two-and-a-half weeks early.’
Demi and Bruce divorced in 2000, after 13 years of marriage. The former couple has remained close, with Demi and her daughters using their platform to speak out about Bruce’s diagnosis of frontotemportal dementia.
Demi is also close with Bruce’s second wife, Emma Heming Willis, and his two daughters, Mabel and Evelyn, who are 13 and 11.
Metro has reached out to Tom Cruise’s representatives for comment.
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