Overview

• Crowe says Eastwood made the remark at a dinner where they were seated together through a shared lawyer.
• He predicts Cruise will pivot from his recent run of large-scale action films into transformative character-driven parts.
• The anecdote surfaced during press for Crowe’s memoir The Uncool, due next month, and has not been independently confirmed by Eastwood or Cruise.
• Crowe and Cruise previously collaborated on Jerry Maguire and Vanilla Sky, with Cruise also producing Crowe’s Elizabethtown and Crowe appearing uncredited in Minority Report.
• Coverage also notes projects reported to be in development for Cruise, including a planned Top Gun sequel and a long-discussed space-shot film with Doug Liman.