Tom Cruise Attends Madrid “Valkyrie” Photocall

Tom Cruise is in Madrid, Spain to promote his World War II drama, “Valkyrie”. He was just in Moscow yesterday for a premiere and press conference.

In a recent press conference, director Bryan Singer and Tom Cruise were asked about what it was like working together as actor and director:

Q: You two seem to have a partnership as much as an actor-director relationship. What’s the difference in working together as producers and then working together as an actor and director?

TC: I have great respect for him as a filmmaker, as a storyteller. Out of a scale of one to 10, I think this film is a 20. It was a challenge to make.

BS: We spent a lot of time, we had Tom’s interest in the project as well as position at the studios. We has the freedom to spend a lot of time working together, working with Chris and Nathan, and talking about the project.

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We have a lot of fun talking. We had meetings at Tom’s house 12 hours long. We camped out in the desert when we were shooting the desert sequence, and everyone’s families were there. When we moved to Germany, we learned more information. We had some good experiences.

And then once we get on the set, he becomes an actor. And I become a director and for my experience, there was never any difference. I knew that no matter how many takes I asked him to do, it would never be as many as Stanley Kubrick did [laughs]. And we tried, we experimented, and it was phenomenal, because anything you’d [saying to Cruise] ask — anything, you’d be like, "Let’s do it." There was never a lack of wanting to try and never a lack of trust.

And then afterwards, [there was] the full support of an actor — it’s a rare opportunity with Tom. As a director, you always feel like nobody cares about the movie as much as you do. What you probably see here is a relationship with someone who cares about this movie as much as I do.

TC: I want to be directed. I enjoy that. I do like to be directed. I don’t stand outside myself and direct myself. And I have a lot of fun doing it.

BS: He doesn’t come to the monitor and look at it and say, "Oh, there’s none of that," which some actors do.

Read more at the Huffington Post. More pictures from the Madrid photo call:

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