Tom Cruise Has a Fond Memory to Share About His ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Co-Star Brad Pitt

Before he earned his reputation as the daredevil who does all his stunts, Tom Cruise starred alongside Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst in 1994’s Interview with the Vampire. While there were the doubters and haters who didn’t think he was the right choice, he blew everyone away with his charismatic and terrifying portrayal of the vampire Lestat. Thirty years after making the film, you don’t expect to learn new tidbits about the movie. Cruise surprised everyone by recalling a fond memory while supporting Pitt’s latest film.

Tom Cruise Teases Brad Pitt’s New Movie After Recall of ‘Go-Kart Racing’ Battle

At CinemaCon, Cruise presented Christopher McQuarrie with the convention’s Director of the Year award and shared some anecdotes and thoughts while introducing him.

Cruise was talking about McQuarrie doing uncredited work on the side for the Pitt-helmed film, World War Z, at the same time as making Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. “Ensuring the tremendous success of that film with my friend, Brad Pitt, for Paramount Pictures and Skydance.” Cruise said.

Mentioning Pitt seemed to sidetrack Cruise, who then switched briefly to his former co-star. “Which, by the way, Brad’s got the movie Formula One [F1] with Jerry Bruckheimer and Joe Kosinski,” he told the crowd. “I can’t wait to see that this summer. I’ll be there opening weekend. It’s gonna be awesome.”

“It’s great to see Brad driving,” Cruise added. “He’s very good. He’s a very good driver. Believe me, I’ve raced against him. When we were doing Interview with the Vampire, we’d go and race go-karts against each other. We’d literally finish and go drive go-karts all night, and he was a hell of a driver.”

Brad Pitt Had a $40 Million Wake-Up Call While Filming

While Cruise can look back on the fun times, Pitt has always maintained that he was basically miserable the whole time. He was initially excited to play Louis, but that quickly faded when he saw the changes made to his character. “Now I’d be able to say, ‘This is a problem. I’m out of here, or we fix this,’” he told EW. But Pitt wasn’t a movie star yet, so he couldn’t say that.

“I knew the book, and in the book you have this guy asking, ‘Who am I?’ Which was probably applicable to me at that time,” he said. “‘Am I good? Am I of the angels? Am I bad? Am I of the devil?’ In the book it is a guy going on this search of discovery. And in the meantime, he has this Lestat character that he’s entranced by and abhors.”

Halfway through filming, he was so frustrated that he asked his friend, producer David Geffen, if he could get out of it. “He was a producer, and he’d just come to visit,” he recalled. “I said, ‘David, I can’t do this anymore. I can’t do it. What will it cost me to get out?’”

After Geffen told him he would have to pay $40 million, Pitt knew he just had to stop complaining. “It actually took the anxiety off of me,” he said. “I was like, ‘I’ve got to man up and ride this through, and that’s what I’m going to do.’”

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