The ET star said Cruise is 'extremely calculative' and 'doesn't put up with shenanigans' (via toofab)
"[Taylor] disappeared," he continued,"The director was in tears. She was gone for 10 days. Didn't tell anybody anything. Gone! Literally shooting around her for 10 days. Nobody could find her. She shows up like she was gone for five minutes. Just comes in, 'Hello, darlings.' The director fell apart. He was like, 'Where the hell have you been?' She says, 'Sweetheart, when Malcolm Forbes shows up with two Faberge eggs and says, 'Let's go,' you go.
"She got two gifts worth more than the budget of our film," he added laughing."It was brilliant. So I got a little taste of old Hollywood. It was fantastic."Howell made his acting debut in the 1982 blockbuster"E.T." around the age of 13. But to help land the part, his father had to make a pit stop before the audition.
"My dad was so shrewd, you know, and he was quite clever with the business," Howell exclaimed with a smile."So my audition for 'E.T.' came from his agency, mind you, cause I'd go visit -- he had a commercial agent or something -- and I'd go visit the people there. And we got a call from the agent that said, 'Listen, you know, Spielberg's casting this role and you gotta go.
"Well, they called my father and I knew nothing about it," he continued."And I was picked up from school from my dad and I never asked why I just would get in the car. So we started driving, we pulled into 7-Eleven and he goes in and he buys a pack of cigarettes and some matches and tells me we're going on an audition and I got to know how to smoke because that was a requirement. Steven wanted my character to smoke cigarettes.
"So I was the last who went in. And there he is, the man, Steven -- he's right there. I'm kind of looking around, you know, I don't even know who he is. That was the beauty back then. I didn't know who Francis Ford Coppola was. I didn't even know what an Oscar was when I was 13 years old. I didn't care. And when [Spielberg] got to me, he started asking me questions -- if I could ride the bike, if I had a problem, you know, with smoking cigarettes.
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