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Tom Cruise Praised by His Risky Business Costar and Ex Rebecca De Mornay: ‘Really Proud of Him’
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- Rebecca De Mornay is praising her Risky Business costar Tom Cruise
- The 65-year-old actress, who also dated the actor for two-and-a-half years in the ’80s, told Page Six that she’s “really proud” of Cruise and his Hollywood success
- “We started this together and look what he did with it,” she said
Rebecca De Mornay is giving props to her Risky Business costar — and ex — Tom Cruise.
De Mornay — who starred alongside Cruise, 63, in their joint breakout film and now appears in the new thriller Saint Claire — was asked by Page Six about her connection with Cruise, whom she dated for two-and-a-half years in the ’80s.
“I’m really proud of him,” the 65-year-old actress told the outlet in an interview published on Saturday, July 19. “I’m really, really proud of him.”
De Mornay’s comments come more than four decades after she and Cruise shared the screen in 1983’s Risky Business.
In the film, the Mission: Impossible star plays high school student Joel Goodsen, who stays home alone while his parents are on vacation. Along the way, he meets a prostitute named Lana (De Mornay).
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As for De Mornay and Cruise’s real-life relationship, the actress previously confirmed that she and the Top Gun star dated briefly after making the movie.
Speaking with Page Six, De Mornay compared Cruise to a “major chord” while describing herself as a “minor” chord.
“He’s like, ‘I am Top Gun and that’s what America really wanted and so he’s fulfilled it,” she said. “He is a brilliant, brilliant interpreter of what the zeitgeist is. I’m really, really proud of knowing him from when we were in the suburbs of Chicago [filming Risky Business] and knowing what he wanted and where it is now.”
“We started this together and look what he did with it,” she added.
After earning a Golden Globe nomination — his first — for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy thanks to his work in Risky Business, Cruise went on to star in blockbusters including the Mission: Impossible series and Top Gun. De Mornay has appeared in films including The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and The Slugger’s Wife.
Her latest movie, Saint Claire, which also stars Bella Thorne, Ryan Phillippe and Frank Whaley, is available now in select theaters and on demand.
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