A screenwriter who labored with Tom Cruise within the erotic drama Eyes Wide Shut has labelled the Hollywood star an “egocentric control freak” amongst different issues.
Frederic Raphael, 91, made the claims concerning the actor in his new e-book, Last Post, wherein he focused the Mission: Impossible star’s profession, hyperlinks to Scientology, and his failed marriage to Aussie actress Nicole Kidman.
Raphael fell out with the movie’s director Stanley Kubrick in 1999, when he launched his first memoir, Eyes Wide Open, the place he was very essential of Kubrick’s directing fashion, which led to him being uninvited to the movie’s premiere.
Now in his new e-book, Raphael once more slammed Kubrick and accused the Hollywood heavyweight’s spouse Christiane Harlan and her brother Jan Harlan of spearheading the unflattering portrayal of him on Wikipedia.
The writer additionally roped Cruise into the drama by claiming the actor knew of the Wikipedia entry.
“The Harlans and Master Cruise have managed to insert some derogatory stuff in my Wikipedia entry,” he writes, as obtained by the Daily Mail.
Raphael’s claims seem to stem from the Wikipedia entry citing movie critic Roger Ebert’s interview with Cruise in 1999, the place he sided with Kubrick within the feud.
“[Raphael] wouldn’t have written it if Stanley had been alive,” Cruise is quoted saying within the interview.
“Opportunistic. Self-serving. Inaccurate. I don’t know that man at all and I’ve never met him. It’s been interesting seeing how people have behaved afterwards.”
In his new e-book, Raphael has extra criticism of the Kubricks and Cruise, writing: “I have never been called a liar by anyone as I have been by the Harlan clan and by Tom Cruise, an egocentric control freak to whom I have never spoken.”
The veteran author then claimed Cruise supplied him a job in an obvious try to manage him after Eyes Wide Shut completed filming.
“The better to have me on a leash, no doubt,” Raphael writes. “In his turn, he too seems to need the control he finds in Scientology.”
He then questioned Cruise’s choice to forged his then-wife Kidman within the movie.
“Was there something just a touch naïve in your idea that casting a married couple as a married couple would enable you to put ‘the truth’ on the screen?” Raphael writes within the e-book.
“One thing you can be pretty sure of: whatever any conjugal duo may disclose in public about their relationship, they rarely let any crucial cat out of the bag. Did you honestly suppose Cruise and Kidman were bound in genuine passion, rather than embraced in a careerist merger?”
Cruise and Kidman divorced two years after the film was made. They had been married for 10 years.
Source: www.news.com.au
