The ‘Mission Impossible’ star Tom Cruise is one of the highest-paid actors in the world. Various accolades including Golden Globe and Academy Awards decorates the star’s name. However, recently one of the screenwriters of ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ claimed Cruise to be an ‘ego-centric control freak’.
It is Fedric Raphael who recently made various claims about the actor in his latest book, ‘Last Post’. This was not the only claim that the writer made. He also talked about the actor’s career, his failed marriage to Nicole Kidman, and also his connections to Scientology. Here’s more about the screenwriter’s criticism of the global star Tom Cruise.
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Frederic Raphael Criticizes Tom Cruise
It is in his latest book, ‘Last Post’ that Frederic Raphael raised claims against the ‘Collateral’ star Tom Cruise. “Opportunistic. Self-serving. Inaccurate. I don’t know that man at all and I’ve never met him. It’s been interesting seeing how people have behaved afterward,” he wrote about the actor in the book.
Cruise was roped into Raphael’s claims that he had also participated in inserting ‘derogatory stuff’ in his Wikipedia entry. While in a feud between Raphael and Kubrick, the star had taken the director’s side. “[Raphael] wouldn’t have written it if Stanley had been alive,” Cruise had said in an interview with Roger Ebert on ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ in 1999.
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Feud Between Frederic Raphael And Stanley Kubrick
In his new book, Frederic Raphael also complains about Stanley Kubrick, his wife Christiane Harlan, and her brother Jan Harlan. “I have never been called a liar by anyone as I have been by the Harlan clan and by Tom Cruise, an egocentric control freak to whom I have never spoken,” the writer expressed.
Raphael had a fallout with the director, Stanley Kubrick after the release of Fredrick’s first memoir ‘Eyes Wide Open’. The writer had been critical of Kubrick’s directing style in ‘Eyes Wide Shut’. This left the screenwriter being excluded from the movie premiere. All these led to Raphael’s disagreements with Stanley Kubrick and Tom Cruise.
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