Tom Cruise recalls fun activity with Brad Pitt while filming ‘Interview with the Vampire’
Seems, the set of Interview with the Vampire wasn’t all shadows and brooding fangs—at the least not for Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
The actor just lately regarded again on his time filming the 1994 gothic drama and shared a delightfully sudden reminiscence involving his then-co-star.
And no, it doesn’t embody capes or coffins—it includes go-karts.
Throughout Paramount Photos’ CinemaCon 2025 presentation in Las Vegas on Thursday, April 3, Cruise took a second to provide a shout-out to Pitt whereas chatting about Mission: Unattainable – The Remaining Reckoning.
As CinemaBlend reported, Cruise made a connection between his personal movie and Pitt’s 2013 zombie epic World Struggle Z, declaring that each scripts have been penned by director Christopher McQuarrie.
Cruise then gushed over Pitt’s upcoming film F1, saying, “Brad’s received a brand new film, [F1], with Jerry Bruckheimer, Joe Kosinski. I can’t wait to see that this summer time. It’ll be superior.”
Pitt stars within the sports activities drama as a former Method 1 driver, and it’s revving up for a June 27 launch.
However right here’s the place the Cruise-Pitt nostalgia kicked in.
“It’s nice to see Brad driving,” Cruise mentioned with a smile. “He’s superb. He’s an excellent driver. Consider me, I’ve raced in opposition to him. Once we have been doing Interview with the Vampire we’d go and race go-karts. We’d actually end and go drive go-karts all night time.”
It’s a far cry from the gloomy temper Pitt as soon as described in his personal reflections on the movie.
In a 2011 interview with Leisure Weekly, Pitt mentioned, “Six months within the f—— darkish,” and admitted to being “depressing” throughout filming.
He additionally felt a bit shortchanged when it got here to how his character Louis was portrayed on display screen, particularly compared to Cruise’s vigorous Lestat.
“Within the film, they took the sensational points of Lestat and made that the heartbeat of the movie, and people issues are very satisfying and superb, however for me, there was simply nothing to do,” he defined.
But when Cruise’s reminiscence serves, at the least a part of their vampire saga got here with some high-speed, engine-roaring enjoyable.
