Tom Cruise is explaining one of his famous roles!
The 62-year-old actor got candid in a conversation at the BFI on Sunday (May 11) in London, England.
During the chat, he spoke out about landing his role in Rain Man, and how it all has to do with his sister Cass.
Tom said it all happened because of a chance meeting with Dustin Hoffman at a New York City restaurant. After filming Legend, he was back in the States visiting his sister Cass, who spotted the actor from across the restaurant.
“She goes, ‘There’s Dustin Hoffman.’ I looked up and there he was, in a hat, and he was ordering takeout,” he recalled, via Variety.
“She goes, ‘You go over there and say hello to him.’ I was like, ‘I’m not going to say hello.’ She goes, ‘You know him, you know his movies.’ And she doesn’t do stuff like that. And I don’t walk up to people, but she was so pushy.”
“If you don’t do it, I’m just going to go over there and tell him who you are,” she urged, to which he said back to her: “He’s not going to know who I am, that’s going to be really humiliating!”
Cass eventually “pestered me so much” that he gave in.
“I said, ‘Excuse me, Mr. Hoffman, I’m sorry…’ And he went, ‘Cruise!’”
Dustin ended up offering the siblings tickets to Death of a Salesman and invited them backstage after the show.
“As I was leaving he said, ‘I want to make a movie with you.’ And I said, ‘That would be nice, sir.’ And that’s what happened, and basically a year later he sent Rain Man.”
Tom is receiving the BFI Fellowship, considered the organization’s highest honor, which he will be presented with at the BFI Chair’s Dinner on Monday (May 12).
He also just shared rare comments about ex-wife Nicole Kidman.
Source: justjared.com
