Usually, it's actors who have to audition for directors when they are in line for a movie role. But when you are as successful as movie star Tom Cruise, you get to make your own rules.
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During a recent appearance on Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce's New Heights podcast, the Minority Report star revealed that he doesn't read scripts. Instead, he has directors read the script to him. Before deciding whether or not to accept the role.
Tom Cruise Says He Makes Directors Read Scripts to Him
"What I do with directors and writers is I don't read the scripts," Cruise explained on the Sept. 18 episode of New Heights (via Entertainment Weekly). "I have them read it to me."
However, this isn't a gesture to show his star power. Cruise explained that his reasoning is justified. Because he wants to have the script communicated the way that the writers and directors intended. Before he has an opportunity to put his influence into the production.
"I have them read it to me because I don't want my ideas to invade it yet. I want to understand what their communication is. They've been working on it, and they have things that are just there," Cruise added.
"We get to a place where I start to understand, and then I'm like, I know how to contribute to that motion. Now, it sparks ideas, and I kind of have certain ideas that I have and certain things that I'd like to play with. And then, I don't necessarily talk about it. I just do it."
Cruise also noted that the gesture helps to give him a better connection with the audience. Because as the script is being read to him, it puts him in the same seat as the people who will be viewing the movie.
"I'm the audience. I am a movie, I'm a popcorn guy. Like, I'm a meat-and-potatoes, popcorn [guy]," the movie star said. "Is it moving me, or am I invested? Am I not invested? Where am I engaged? Where am I not engaged? That's just who I am."
Tom Cruise's next movie, Digger, releases on October 2.
