Glen Powell says Tom Cruise convinced him to stay on Top Gun: Maverick after he lost the role of Rooster.
Rich Eisen : “You originally auditioned for the role of Rooster in Top Gun: Maverick.”
Glen Powell : “That’s true.”
“I felt great about the audition.”
“Then I got the call that I wasn’t going to be Rooster.”
“I was literally wearing an American flag tank top and aviators.”
“I immediately ended up in the fetal position.”
“It was the worst Fourth of July ever.”
“A few days later, Tom Cruise called me and said, ‘I still want you to do the movie.’”
“I wasn’t sure I wanted to anymore.”
“He and Jerry Bruckheimer invited me to sit down and talk.”
“Tom asked me, ‘What kind of career do you want?’”
“I said, ‘Yours. I’m trying to be you.’”
“He said, ‘Do you know how I do that?’”
“I said, ‘You choose great roles.’”
“He said, ‘No. I choose great movies, and I make the roles great.’”
“That completely changed my perspective.”
“Even being a small part of the Top Gun ride has changed my life forever.”
It's kind of ironic that Beavis & Butthead here said that voters don't want candidates "grown in vats," but their entire process of recruiting Platner was a sort of mad science experimenet/talent search based solely on outward appearances with no vetting whatsoever.
Journalists simultaneously claim to be the smartest or dumbest people on the planet depending on what’s convenient in the moment.
Clown nose on, clown nose off routine.
TRUMP: Putin said, "I'd love to meet in Moscow." I don’t know if Zelenskyy would go to Moscow. Maybe he would. Would you go to Moscow?
ZELENSKYY: It’s difficult. There are lot of Ukrainian drones there. (Audience laughs) It’s dangerous.
TRUMP: Yeah, it’s hard to go to Moscow.
@davidharsanyi Trump should’ve never attacked Iran without a commitment to go all the way but Vance has been completely naive about any kind of diplomatic engagement with them.