Celebrating from a distance. Tom Cruise wasn’t in attendance on the 2023 Oscars on Sunday, March 12, despite Top Gun: Maverick receiving six nominations.
Cruise, 60, didn’t attend the awards display because he is filming Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part II overseas, Us Weekly can ascertain. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is anticipated to accept the Best Picture award if their film wins whilst the actor is in the U.Okay. (Glen Powell additionally showed by way of Instagram that he wouldn’t be on the awards show.)
Although Cruise and Powell, 34, had to skip the rite, his costars Jennifer Connelly, Jay Ellis, Miles Teller and Lewis Pullman were in attendance on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Fans of the action-drama film are also in for a wonder with Lady Gaga‘s planned musical look after it was once originally announced that she would not be able to attend — or carry out — at the Academy Awards.
“We have great relationships with Lady Gaga and her camp [however] she’s in the middle of shooting a movie right now, and here we are honoring the film trade and what it takes to make a movie,” Oscars manufacturer Glenn Weiss stated on Wednesday, March 8, all the way through the Oscars Creative Team press conference, regarding Gaga’s function in the Joker sequel Folie à Deux. “After a bunch of back and forth, it didn’t feel like she will get a performance to the caliber that we’re used to together with her, that she’s used to and all that stuff.”
Hours forward of the Oscars, ABC confirmed that the actress, 36, was in the building for the awards show in any case. Gaga’s music “Hold My Hand,” which she collaborated on with BloodPop and Benjamin Rice, is nominated for Best Original Song. Top Gun: Maverick is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects and Best Drama Film on the 95th Academy Awards too.
The film, which is a sequel to the original 1986 movie, also featured stars akin to Val Kilmer, Jon Hamm, Monica Barbaro and Ed Harris.
Powell in the past praised Cruise for the advice he offered him while working together on set.
“Sometimes you can fall into the lure of wanting to be appreciated on digicam,” the Scream Queens alum informed Kate Hudson during Variety’s “Actors on Actors” interview in December 2022. “And in a film like this, the place there’s going to be a large number of eyes on it, you don’t need to be Draco Malfoy.”
According to Powell, the Jack Reacher celebrity suggested that he lean into being the antihero of the movie. “For the ending to work, you have to totally lean into that. Everybody else in the film is wondering their very own ability,” the Texas local recalled at the time. “You’re the only man that’s no longer wondering it. So, if there’s any form of apology in anything you say, the film doesn’t paintings. Lean into the douchebaggery of all of it.”
The Set It Up superstar noted that Cruise showed support for his other projects as well.
“I found that [Devotion] e book and developed that for five years, so when I missed out on the Rooster role, the conversation I had with Tom used to be, ‘Hey, I didn’t get this position, but I if truth be told have a naval aviation movie I’ve been creating. Maybe that’s just what I’m going to do,'” Powell added. “And he convinced me that there’s room for 2. And I’m really satisfied, because the whole lot I discovered on Top Gun were given to be infused into Devotion.”
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Pullman, 30, meanwhile, credited Cruise for putting in the hard work to make Top Gun: Maverick a field office hit.
“I had to simply change into right into a sponge and simply absorb, take in, soak up as it was a brand new lesson every day. I imply, he's a Titan,” Pullman exclusively advised Us in June 2022. “I’ve never noticed someone means filmmaking the way he does, and I’ve also by no means observed any person that a ways into their career who still has such drive, has such curiosity, has such interest has any such reluctance to settle, is at all times looking to make even the smallest scenes better. And he’s so invested in learning about, I imply, he’s already realized about it, but in each asset of filmmaking, he turns out to have an unlimited figuring out of each and every particle that is going into making a excellent movie that everybody all over the world can relate to. And in order that used to be just improbable, incredible to look at.”
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