Tom Cruise - actor, producer, daredevil. The face of Hollywood in the 1980s, after a mid-career meltdown, his future loo | dG1fTmFZTkZUVHQ1dlU
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00:00 [dramatic music]
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00:06 - Everything was there-- the smile, the charm,
00:09 the physicality.
00:11 He was cocky, self-assured.
00:14 - There is an intensity, a drive,
00:17 and that drive and that determination
00:19 manifests itself on screen.
00:21 More often than not,
00:22 if you went to see a Tom Cruise movie,
00:24 it would be a good movie.
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00:32 - In 2005, 2006,
00:34 he basically has a public image meltdown.
00:37 In terms of whether anyone could have foreseen
00:39 that Tom Cruise would manage to rebuild his career,
00:43 I think maybe the only person who potentially saw it
00:45 was Tom Cruise himself.
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00:52 - I think there is an element of him wanting to excel
00:55 at everything he does.
00:56 Being the complete entertainer,
00:59 wanting to do it all,
01:00 that's what makes him so interesting
01:02 as an action star.
01:03 - The fact that he's doing something
01:05 that's just outrageously dangerous
01:07 becomes part of the appeal of the films.
01:09 There's another layer of excitement to it,
01:11 and there's a certain morbid fascination
01:13 with the fact that he keeps doing this,
01:15 and how far is he gonna take it?
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01:20 - He's Tom Cruise.
01:22 He's not just a big star still.
01:23 He's the biggest star.
01:25 And I don't know if anybody's had that long of a stretch
01:28 where they were the biggest star in the world
01:30 when they were 25,
01:31 and then they were the biggest star in the world
01:32 when they were 60.
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