![]() ![]() It’s like re-abuse,” Newton said.Vulture conducted a comprehensive interview with Thandie Newton, which covered everything from her earliest acting credits, all the way down to her current role on Westworld. “If someone brought it up - and of course they’re going to bring it up in an interview, man - if they spoke about it in a way that’s not sympathetic or they called it an affair, it was insult to injury. In the Vulture interview, she said the experience was abusive, especially after the media tended to portray it as an affair. She was 16 at the time, and the director, John Duigan, sexually preyed on her after she auditioned for him. “Flirting” won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film, and was a hit on the independent film scene.īut Newton also said working on the film also was traumatic. Newton said Kidman was “a huge advocate for me.” The two met as co-stars in the 1991 Australian coming-of-age romance “Flirting,” which was seen as Newton’s big break in films. “It’s kind of nice if you can pick together.” “I’ve never actually outright asked her, but when your husband is like, ‘Who would you mind me pretending to (expletive) for the next six months?’ You know what I mean?” Newton said. Overall, Newton was grateful for the opportunity to be in “Mission: Impossible 2.” She believes that Nicole Kidman, Cruise’s wife at the time, suggested her as his co-star and love interest in the film. As co-producer of the film, he was under a lot of pressure. Newton, who plays the robot Maeve in “Westworld,” is somewhat understanding of why Cruise was being so intense. It’s not the best way to get the best work out of someone.” “He just wanted this alpha bitch,” Newton told Vulture. Newton said they later reshot the scene, and she managed to give the performance Cruise apparently wanted. ![]() I saw it growing, and it was like the zit was me, just getting bigger and bigger.” ![]() “It would take anyone else 48 hours to manifest a zit. “I kid you not - this is how his metabolism is so fierce - he had a big whitehead where that red dot was,” Newton told Vulture. And I really do mean bless him, because he was trying his damnedest.”īut Newton said “a slight red mark” she noticed on Cruise’s nose at the beginning of the night grew into “a big whitehead” by the end of the night. “It just pushed me further into a place of terror and insecurity. “It was the most unhelpful,” Newton said. She said he grew increasingly frustrated during the rehearsal, during which he insisted that each read the other character’s lines. But Newton told Vulture Cruise wasn’t happy with how she was saying her lines, which she said were pretty horrible. In the scene, Cruise’s super spy Ethan Hunt and Newtom’s thief Nyah Nordoff-Hall had a confrontation on a balcony in Spain. “I was curious, because it’s like, Wow, if it’s going to attract people, powerful, high-profile people, there’s got to be some glue that sticks this (expletive) together,” Newton told Vulture. He would shower her with Church of Scientology-related Christmas gifts and books on the cult-like organization, of which Cruise is a leading celebrity member. He was a very dominant individual,” the British-born Newton said, explaining why she would never work with him again.Ĭruise’s overly friendly, domineering personality had him “being very generous and open about sharing Scientological stuff,” Newton told Vulture. Tom Cruise pads pregnant co-star Thandie Newton at the premiere of their new film “Mission Impossible 2” at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA, 18 May, 2000. Yes, Cruise tried “superhard to be a nice person,” the Emmy Award-winning Newton told Vulture, but the famously hard-driving actor couldn’t help himself. In an extraordinary interview with Vulture, “Westworld” star Thandie Newton opens up about her 30-year career in movies, an industry that she says systematically mistreats women, particularly women of color.Įven the powerful men in Hollywood who tried very hard to be nice could be “scary” and difficult to work with, Newton, 47, said, recounting to Vulture her intense experience working with Tom Cruise in the 2000 blockbuster “Mission: Impossible 2.” ![]()
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