A-lister TOM CRUISE is very touchy about his height…the apparent lack of it, that is. This comes on the heels of reports that Tom is in talks to play the fictional character of Jack Reacher, an ex-military policeman who happens to be 6’5″ tall and weighs 250 pounds. Uh, Tom…aren’t we overreaching just a liiiiittle bit too much?
The “Mission Impossible” star, whom Hollywood gossip websites have pegged at 5’7″…okay, a shoe insert-enhanced 5’7″, judging from this photo with much taller 5’9″ wife, Katie Holmes…says he’s hurt at the fan backlash that resulted from reports he was playing a man much taller and way larger than himself.
“Firstly, I’m very sensitive to it,”
Cruise, who believes he could do the role justice, said.
He believes Jack Reacher’s immense height and size “was just one element to his character” in the popular series of suspense thriller books penned by British author, Lee Child.
“Reacher’s size in the books is a metaphor for an unstoppable force, which Cruise portrays in his own way,”
Child himself has said.
It looks like Lee Child doesn’t watch movies all that much, given they’re supposed to be visual feasts to the eyes, and the first thing fans of the Jack Reacher series will notice is that the character playing him is…well…vertically challenged, to put it kindly.
“This is Lee’s book and Lee’s character,”
Cruise is adamant.
“Him giving me his blessing is what made me do it. If he hadn’t then I wouldn’t have done it.”
Let’s all hope Tom Cruise‘s star power is tall enough and large enough to flesh out Jack Reacher’s character, or both Tom and Lee Child (and the movie studio that distributes the film) should be prepared for a straight-to-DVD production.
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