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‘Interview With the Vampire’ Director on Casting Tom Cruise Over Daniel Day-Lewis and the Backlash That Followed: ‘The Entire World’ Said ‘You Are Miscast’

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I still have never watched this movie, mostly because I am not a fan of Tom cruise.
- He's probably the least Tom cruise in this.
  
  I didn't even recognize him in tropic thunder.
- I don't like Tom Cruise, or Tom Cruise movies either, but this is a classic.
- The isn't that much Tom Cruise in it and the part where he is, is fantastic.
- The person should be committed, but the artist is committed.
  
  Best description of the guy I have ever heard.
- I know you've already gotten a bunch of responses, but I'd like to add that the movie isn't about Cruises character. It's about how a different character became a vampire and his history dealing with it, while running into Cruises character a few times.
  He's a co star.
“I finally got it,” Jordan wrote. “He had to live a life removed from the gaze of others. He had made a contract with the hidden forces, whatever they turned out to be. He had to hide in the shadows, even in the Hollywood sunlight. He would be eternally young. He was a star. He could well be Lestat.”
Oh snap.
Tom Cruise is a vampire?
I mean he was good, but he's certainly no Sam Reid
Daniel Day Lewis would have been a terrible choice for Lestat. Why would anybody think Lewis for that role?

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