Tom Cruise is Too Short to Play Jack Reacher
by EG
Tom Cruise has played the manly Jack Reacher in two movies so far, but it won't happen again if the author who created the character has his way. Lee Child says that Cruise is about a foot too short to play the character, and he says that Cruise won't play Jack Reacher again. Read on for details.
Via Page Six.
The “Jack Reacher” novels will be adapted into a television series but the author said Tom Cruise will not reprise his role because he doesn’t have the character’s “physicality.”
Lee Child, the creator of the series, told BBC Radio he is working on a small screen reboot but Cruise, who has portrayed the titular character in the 2012 film “Jack Reacher” and 2016 sequel “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back,” will not return. Reacher was described in the novels as 6 feet 5 inches tall but Cruise stands at 5 feet 7 inches.
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“Cruise, for all his talent, didn’t have that physicality,” Child told BBC Radio.
The author said he “really enjoyed” working with the “Top Gun” actor but wanted to be true to the character.
“But ultimately, the readers are right,” he said. “The size of Reacher is really, really important and it’s a big component of who he is.
“The idea is that when Reacher walks into a room, you’re all a little nervous just for that first minute. And Cruise, for all his talent, didn’t have that physicality,” he continued.
Child said he decided that “there won’t be any more movies with Tom Cruise” but instead a television series “with a completely new actor.”
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