Tom Cruise confirmed Days of Thunder 2 on August 29 with a video posted to his own X account, standing beside a bright yellow and lime-green stock car at Daytona alongside his new co-star, Anne Hathaway.
Jon, I love your work man, but have you SEEN Kelly McGillis lately?
My goodness. She embodies the saying "looks like a thumb."
You could not have had her as a love interest in a movie you were selling on nostalgia and testosterone.
I realize that women grow old, and that Hollywood ladies like Jennifer Connelly generally have more work done to their bodies than a highway overpass. I also realize that there is a certain level of trauma that happened to McGillis to make her look the way she does, which is a tragedy no matter anything else.
But, you've heard "Father Time did X no favors?". Well, forget passive aging and horizontal growth as one gets older, Father Time laid a beating on that woman like she owed him money and called him a b---- a-- p---- for his trouble."
It's like it was personal.
Anyway, I hope she's OK, in a good place, and hasn't drunk the woke flavor-aid going around Hollywood (I don't know either way in her case), but the gal just needs to stay away from movie sets
I am not a fan of Anne Hathaway's take on a lot of her recent work. I feel like Anne Hathaway pre- The Devil Loves Prada was much more moderate.
Still, Cruise has already shown he can invoke authority figures with Jon Hamm's "Cyclone" playing a similar role in Maverick as Javier Bardem in the F1 movie last year. F1 has given the blueprint for how to do this without giving Hathaway the runway to Girlboss so much it ruins the movie.
I still think she's beautiful, though uglier in spirit the more progressive she gets, and sounds like filming happens after she has the baby so the creepy "Cruise romances a preggers woman" isn't likely. Also, that is the sort of May-December romance that doesn't usually play well with mass audiences.
Let's hope she is a strategic character rather than a tactical player.
A strategic character is a mostly unseen presence who we all know is hanging out, and shows up to move things forward and is the crux of some of the twists of the plot. Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connelly, Javier Bardem as examples. On the other side we have tactical characters who are the main drivers of the story. Maverick and the team he's training, with the tension really being between Maverick and Rooster (and Hangman to a certain extent) in particular.
Think of how little we see these strategic characters. Bardem, despite being a desperate team owner in F1 only had two major contributions to the plot of F1: recruiting Brad Pitt's character and as the person Pitt's loyalty won't let him abandon. Other than that he's mostly just there to add color by to complaining about money and stuff.
Jon Hamm played the same role, but in a more passive-aggressive role. Reluctantly working with a known chaos bearer only to learn applying rules and putting limits on this rogue element is not only counter-productive but will not lead to optimal success. Ultimately they end up with a grudging respect for each other's position.
Jon, I love your work man, but have you SEEN Kelly McGillis lately?
My goodness. She embodies the saying "looks like a thumb."
You could not have had her as a love interest in a movie you were selling on nostalgia and testosterone.
I realize that women grow old, and that Hollywood ladies like Jennifer Connelly generally have more work done to their bodies than a highway overpass. I also realize that there is a certain level of trauma that happened to McGillis to make her look the way she does, which is a tragedy no matter anything else.
But, you've heard "Father Time did X no favors?". Well, forget passive aging and horizontal growth as one gets older, Father Time laid a beating on that woman like she owed him money and called him a b---- a-- p---- for his trouble."
It's like it was personal.
Anyway, I hope she's OK, in a good place, and hasn't drunk the woke flavor-aid going around Hollywood (I don't know either way in her case), but the gal just needs to stay away from movie sets
And mirrors.
And because I'm just that type of guy, I'm going to reply to my own comment to add:
When it comes to Kelly McGillis, "I'VE lost that loving feeling."
I last saw her in The Innkeepers and, well...
Amn Hathaway is a Diddy Girl. She loves taking Kids to Parties with Hollywood Elites. ALLEDGELLY, of course. Legal Disclaimer.
I am sick and tired of Anne Hathaway.
I am not a fan of Anne Hathaway's take on a lot of her recent work. I feel like Anne Hathaway pre- The Devil Loves Prada was much more moderate.
Still, Cruise has already shown he can invoke authority figures with Jon Hamm's "Cyclone" playing a similar role in Maverick as Javier Bardem in the F1 movie last year. F1 has given the blueprint for how to do this without giving Hathaway the runway to Girlboss so much it ruins the movie.
I still think she's beautiful, though uglier in spirit the more progressive she gets, and sounds like filming happens after she has the baby so the creepy "Cruise romances a preggers woman" isn't likely. Also, that is the sort of May-December romance that doesn't usually play well with mass audiences.
Let's hope she is a strategic character rather than a tactical player.
A strategic character is a mostly unseen presence who we all know is hanging out, and shows up to move things forward and is the crux of some of the twists of the plot. Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connelly, Javier Bardem as examples. On the other side we have tactical characters who are the main drivers of the story. Maverick and the team he's training, with the tension really being between Maverick and Rooster (and Hangman to a certain extent) in particular.
Think of how little we see these strategic characters. Bardem, despite being a desperate team owner in F1 only had two major contributions to the plot of F1: recruiting Brad Pitt's character and as the person Pitt's loyalty won't let him abandon. Other than that he's mostly just there to add color by to complaining about money and stuff.
Jon Hamm played the same role, but in a more passive-aggressive role. Reluctantly working with a known chaos bearer only to learn applying rules and putting limits on this rogue element is not only counter-productive but will not lead to optimal success. Ultimately they end up with a grudging respect for each other's position.