Tom Cruise recalls his major work for 'Magnolia'

Tom Cruise has just now opened up about his experience of working in Magnolia.

During an interview at the British Film Institute, the Hollywood actor candidly discussed that he not only acted but also wrote his own monologue in the movie.

“The whole monologue wasn’t there at the beginning. That wasn’t there,” he said. “There was a couple of sentences. And I said, ‘Look, just come over to my place. Let’s do the wardrobe fitting.’ And I remember [Anderson] wanted me in, like, IZOD shirts and khaki[s].”

Recalling how he invited the director Paul Thomas Anderson to his screening room at the time Cruise continued, “And I lit it … and I had the whole music, and I basically wrote the opening monologue … my version.”

The movie revolves around nine different people whose lives are interwoven, all  suffering from a sense of meaninglessness.

Sharing his comment, the Mission Impossible actor noted, “[Anderson was] like, ‘What the f***?’ I was like, ‘I don’t know, this is Mackey to me.’”

“You get an instinct. When you’re when you’re shooting a film, it’s like you prepare, you prepare — and believe me, I prepare everything — and we’re going through it, and there’s a lot of communication and dialog about character [and] story.”

Before concluding, Tom Cruise shared, “We’re in the moment, the camera’s rolling, and for me, I’m rehearsing … it’s there every take. It’s like, ‘It’s now, it’s now, it’s now.’ And I just can be the character.”