Brad Pitt reveals one condition he has to work with Tom Cruise again
Brad Pitt isn't willing to risk death to share the big screen with Tom Cruise.
At the 'F1' premiere in Mexico City, Pitt, 61, revealed he has one major condition about doing another movie with Cruise, 62, over 30 years after they co-starred in 'Interview with the Vampire.'
11 Brad Pitt at the 'F1' red carpet premiere in Mexico City on June 9.
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11 Tom Cruise at the 'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning' premiere in New York on May 18, 2025.
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'Well, I'm not gonna hang my ass off airplanes and sh-t like that, so when he does something again that's on the ground,' Pitt told E! News last week.
Cruise, who famously does his own stunts in films including the 'Mission: Impossible' franchise, has been imploring fans to go see Pitt's new sports drama film in which he plays a former Formula 1 driver.
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'He's so sweet. He's sweet,' Pitt said to E! News about the 'Top Gun' star.
'We did have our Go-Kart days back in the early 90s,' Pitt further recalled. When asked who was the faster driver, Pitt said of Cruise, 'He got me in the end. I gotta admit.'
11 Brad Pitt with his girlfriend Ines de Ramon in New York in Sept. 2024.
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1994's 'Interview with the Vampire' is still the only film that Pitt and Cruise have collaborated on in their careers.
In April, Cruise spoke about Pitt and 'F1' during a presentation at CinemaCon 2025 in Las Vegas.
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11 Kirsten Dunst, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in a scene from 'Interview with the Vampire.'
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'Brad's got a new movie, with Jerry Bruckheimer, Joe Kosinski,' Cruise said on stage. 'I can't wait to see that this summer. It'll be awesome.'
'It's great to see Brad driving,' Cruise added. 'He's very good. He's a very good driver. Believe me, I've raced against him. When we were doing 'Interview with the Vampire' we'd go and race go-karts. We'd literally finish and go drive go-karts all night.'
11 Brad Pitt in 'F1.'
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11 Tom Cruise in 'Mission: Impossible 8.'
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Bruckheimer, 81, and Kosinski, 51, have worked with Pitt on 'F1' and Cruise on 2022's smash hit 'Top Gun: Maverick.'
In a recent interview with GQ magazine, Kosinsk spoke about the differences in working with Pitt and Cruise.
11 Tom Cruise at the 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' Mexico City premiere on May 20.
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'Tom always pushes it to the limit, but at the same time is super capable and very skilled,' Kosinski said. 'They both have the natural talent for driving. But yeah, I could see Tom maybe scaring us a little bit more.'
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'F1' action-vehicle supervisor, Graham Kelly, added: 'We'd have had a crash. Tom pushes it to the limit. I mean really to the limit. That terrifies me. I mean, I've done loads of 'Mission: Impossibles' with Tom and it's the most stressful experience for someone like me building cars for him, doing stunts with him. Whereas Brad listens and he knows his abilities, and I think he'd be the first to say, 'Yeah, I'm not going to do that.''
11 Brad Pitt at the British Grand Prix 2023.
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In that same interview, Kosinski revealed that Pitt and Cruise were supposed to reunite for his version of 'Ford v Ferrari,' but the studio didn't approve his budget. James Mangold ended up directing the 2019 sports drama starring Christian Bale and Matt Damon.
'F1,' also starring Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies and Javier Bardem, will be released in theaters June 27.
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