STAR FOREVER

Clint Eastwood Predicts Tom Cruise’s Place in History

Eastwood compared the actor to the megastar Paul Newman.

Cameron Crowe shares Clint Eastwood’s prediction that Tom Cruise will be a legend in 100 years from now. Eastwood compared the actor to the megastar Paul Newman, whose acting career started in the 1950s. In an interview with The New York Times to promote Crowe’s upcoming memoir, The Uncool, he shared his prediction for Cruise, “Simple statements of what happened in a time in history, you’re going to read Tom Cruise’s name.” At a dinner party, Eastwood told Crowe, “In a hundred years, they’re gonna look back — that’s the career, Tom Cruise’s career.” He described Cruise’s work ethic and said he was “an absolute student” in whatever he does. And then there were the stunts. For nearly a decade, the world has watched Cruise hang from the side of a plane, skydive, or climb the world’s tallest building.