People: Tom Cruise: Got “Rain Man” role thanks to stubborn sister

Hollywood star Tom Cruise (62), according to his own statements, has his role in the success film “Rain Man” alongside Dustin Hoffman (87) of his unyondly sister. In the 1980s, Cruise and his sister happened to see in a restaurant in New York in the 1980s, where he ordered food to take away, as the US magazine “Variety” cruise quoted during a conversation at the London Film Festival BFI. “She said:” Get over and greet him. “I said:” I don’t greet. “”, Said Cruise.

At that time, according to “Variety” Ridley Scott’s film “Legend”, Cruise had already turned off greater awareness with the leading role in the youth film “Risky Business – Loose Business”. Nevertheless, he was sure that Hoffman would not know him and that contact would be “really humiliating”, said Cruise. However, his sister “annoyed him so much” that he finally gave in.

“I want to make a film with you.”

“I said,” Excuse Mr. Hoffman, I’m sorry … “” “, and then he said:” “Cruise!”, “Remembered the” Mission Impossible “star. Then Hoffman offered him and his sister cards for the Broadway piece “Death of an Action traveler”, in which he played the leading role at the time and invited them behind the stage after the show. “When I went, he said:” I want to make a film with you. “And I said:” That would be nice, sir ‘”.”

A year later, the offer for “Rain Man” came. The drama, in which Hoffman and Cruise play two unequal brothers, was awarded several Oscars in 1989.