Brad Pitt told E! News at the Mexico premiere of “F1” that he would be interested in acting opposite Tom Cruise again, as long as it doesn’t require any death-defying aerial stunts. The two A-listers famously starred together in the 1994 horror drama “Interview with the Vampire.” Pitt and Cruise never reunited on screen after that.
“Well, I’m not gonna hang my ass off airplanes and shit like that,” Pitt said with a laugh when asked about working with Cruise again. “So when he does something again that’s on the ground [then yes].”
Pitt’s “F1” movie is directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, the duo behind Cruise’s record-breaking “Top: Gun Maverick.” Pitt’s movie was being developed while Cruise’s movie was in post-production. “Top Gun: Maverick” earned $1.4 billion at the worldwide box office in summer 2022. Kosinski recently told GQ magazine that he originally planned to reunite Cruise and Pitt for his version of “Ford v Ferrari,” although the studio never approved his budget. James Mangold ended up directing “Ford v Ferrari” with Christian Bale and Matt Damon instead.
“Tom always pushes it to the limit, but at the same time is super capable and very skilled,” Kosinski said when asked about what would’ve happened had Cruise starred in “F1” over Pitt. “They both have the natural talent for driving. But yeah, I could see Tom maybe scaring us a little bit more.”
“We’d have had a crash,” the film’s action vehicle supervisor Graham Kelly quipped to GQ. “Tom pushes it to the limit. I mean really to the limit. That terrifies me. I mean, I’ve done loads of ‘Mission: Impossibles’ with Tom and it’s the most stressful experience for someone like me building cars for him, doing stunts with him. Whereas Brad listens and he knows his abilities, and I think he’d be the first to say, ‘Yeah, I’m not going to do that.’”
Pitt’s “F1” is set to open in theaters June 27. Cruise opened his own summer blockbuster in May with “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” in which he dangled from the side of a moving airplane during one stunt.
