Apparently Tom Cruise's action movie days are over.
HARAHAN, LA - OCTOBER 16: Author, Lee Child and Tom Cruise arrive on the red carpet for "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" Fan Screening at AMC Elmwood Palace 20 on October 16, 2016 in Harahan, Louisiana. Despite having clear commercial aspirations for his Jack Reacher series of novels, author Lee Child seems particularly pained that
he said Cruise was conflicted about the decision. “Cruise was reluctant," the author said. "He had his own investment in it, he was going to argue against it. It sounds extremely patronizing but I think it’s good for him. He’s too old for this stuff. He’s 57, he needs to move on, transition to being a character actor."
This is far from the first time Child had picked at Cruise, though in previous interviews he's mostly focused onIn the Reacher books, which now number 24, the title character is quite pointedly described as a 6'5 man. Cruise, somewhat notoriously, is an entire 10 inches shorter. Of less controversy, but still notable, is that the Reacher character is blond, while Cruise has brown hair.
In case you're wondering what other reasons Child has to be hung up on the insistence that his character is 6'5 blond, perhaps its because the author himself is a fair-haired 6'4. Child himself hasn't shied away from suggestions that Child is a idealized fictional version of himself.
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