Compared with Will Smith, Sid is more worried about another blockbuster starring, or should I say the biggest big star in "The Departed" - Tom Cruise.

As the number one Hollywood star who is now in the limelight and is in full swing, Tom Cruise's pomp is naturally very different from other leading actors, not to mention Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, who have declined, and even Will Smith, who has just entered the 20 million club, is not as good as it.

Needless to say, the special trailer, the whole process, the makeup artist and stylist that came with it, if it wasn't for the decision that Sid would be in charge of the shooting as early as the time of signing the contract, the shooting work would have been difficult.

And today is Tom Cruise's first day of filming on the set, and his first scene is to play against the police chief played by the old actor Al Pacino.

After the police chief, played by Al Pacino, temporarily announced the special operation, Tom Cruise, an undercover agent, urgently called his gangster to inform him.

But at this time, when the police chief Roy accosted him, he also had to show a flustered demeanor and a calm demeanor.

However, "Cut——!!"

Sid slammed the horn and shouted, everyone couldn't help but sigh secretly, while Tom Cruise in front of the camera showed a faint embarrassment, this is the 17th time this scene has shouted "Cut".

As a big-name actor who has been traveling on various sets all year round, although he has not taken on an artistic film for some years, Tom Cruise also knows that his performance today is a bit out of shape.

A seemingly simple rivalry scene, Tom Cruise's performance is always unsatisfactory, and he has performed well in some previous solo scenes.

Whether it is his personal aura when he first appears, or when he disguises himself as a gangster lawyer to blackmail the gangster's testimony, he is quite skillful, although his trademark charming smile is still shown from time to time, but on the whole it is harmless.

Until playing against Al Pacino, as one of the four major actors in the 90s, although Al Pacino gradually disappeared from the eyes of the public after "Smelling a Woman", especially after the rise of new generation male stars such as Tom Cruise, George Clooney, and Xiao Lizi, the development space was even more compressed.

But his acting skills have not fallen behind.

"Hey, I'm sorry. Director Roy patted Colin on the shoulder from behind.

"Hi, Director. Colin was surprised but quickly calmed down.

"As you know, such an operation must be kept secret in advance. Director Roy said with a smile.

"It's okay, do you have confidence?" Colin, as he made a phone call, asked rhetorically with a complacent face.

"It's not ......" Before Director Roy's words were finished, Colin countered and said to the other side of the phone: "You told Dad to listen to the phone...... I don't have time to go back to dinner. ”

On the surface, this scene is just Colin calling his father in front of Director Roy to inform him of coming home late, of course, for Director Roy, who doesn't know the "truth", Colin can indeed act like this.

However, that would lose a layer of tension that should be, and Sid wants Tom Cruise to be able to show the hidden tension while being calm on the surface.

To this end, Sid also added a temporary interjection between Director Roy and Colin when Colin called the gang bosses on the basis of the original script to further increase the tension.

But it seems that Sid's request is beyond his performance level, or beyond his formed habit of idolizing performance.

Speaking of Tom Cruise's image in front of the screen, especially in the late 90s and after 2000, whether it is his "Mission Impossible" series or several big-budget films with big-name directors such as Spielberg, it is difficult to say that the performance is delicate and layered.

In other words, the star has achieved his level, and he really doesn't need to challenge these in independent films, but with the success of Julia Roberts with "Never Compromise" two years ago.

And his ex-wife Nicole Kidman also rose to prominence last year with "Island Cry" and "Moulin Rouge", and made a big splash in both commercial results and awards season, which can't help but make Tom Cruise take the initiative to plan for his next step.

Tom Cruise is of course unbeatable as a business star these days, but it's no easy thing to do during the awards season.

In other words, contrary to fame, the bigger the star, the more difficult it is to achieve in the awards season, and Jim Carrey, the comedy king of previous years, has also played enough comedy and wants to transform into a serious actor.

So he starred in "Truman's World", which is quite deep from the subject matter to the script, reflecting and ironizing a protagonist who was played with by a "reality show" - Truman.

And Jim Carrey also played the whole process, completely washing away the spoof nonsensical performances of the past, and completely demanding himself with the requirements of a serious actor.

And this film has also won a large number of awards season favors, including the Golden Globe Awards and the British Academy Awards, and he even won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor that year, but the cold Oscar is ignored.

In the end, "Truman's World" only won three nominations at the Oscars that year, and they were all non-key nominations such as script, director, and supporting actor. And Jim Carrey, the Golden Globe Award actor of the year, didn't even get the Oscar nomination.

It can be described as a typical example of being slapped in the face by "Papapa".

If it goes according to the usual development, it will be difficult for Tom Cruise to escape Jim Carrey's "cursed doom", but the invitation sent by Sid did give him a glimmer of hope, although the fixed salary of $5 million made his agent team oppose it a lot.

But Sid's cast and movie theme really made him excited.

What Robert De Niroga Al Pacino means, for stars who have come all the way from the 80s, Tom Cruise certainly knows very well, in "The Fuse" after "The Godfather", these two only four remaining male gods of the 80s teamed up to perform a wonderful police showdown.

Although the film didn't get a good awards season performance in the end, it still made Warner Bros. a lot of money at the box office.

Although the current Tom Cruise is a movie star with a beautiful face and invincible charm in the eyes of many people.

But in the classic movie "Rain Man" in the late 80s, Tom Cruise's performance also impressed many people, but at that time it was shrouded in the shadow of Dustin Hoffman's god-level acting skills.