Tom Cruise recalls interesting details about ‘Magnolia’ movie

Tom Cruise has recently shared interesting detail about Magnolia movie while speaking at the British Film Institute in London.

The Top Gun star recalled he requested his Magnolia director, Paul Thomas Anderson to write his character’s infamous monologue.

"The whole monologue wasn't there at the beginning. That wasn't there — there was a couple sentences, and I remember I was worried,” revealed the 62-year-old.

Tom mentioned, “I said, 'Look, just come over to my place, let's do the wardrobe fitting.' And I remember he wanted me in IZOD shirts and khakis.”

“I was like, 'I don't think that's this guy. Let me show you my instincts on this,’” he continued.

Therefore, Tom had already “created that whole character”.

“I said, 'Just sit down right here in my screening room.' I lit it, and I had the whole music, and I basically wrote the opening monologue, my version,” explained the Mission Impossible actor.

Tom pointed out, “I was like, 'Let me just show you what I'm gonna do,' and he was literally right here sitting, and I had a stage, and I had lit, and I had the big speakers, and as I was doing it, I could just see his face… I dunno, this is Mackey to me!'" while talking about his Frank T.J. Mackey character in the 1999 movie.

Reflecting on writing monologue process, the Jack Reacher actor further said, “What's nice is, you show them, and then it evolves from there.”

“Then every day, we were writing those monologues, and I just had a list of things… Look, I do research on things but I just create characters like that. You just go, 'I can do it,' and you work on it,’” added Tom.