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'Every film I've been in I die, I'm quite good at it'

The characters British actor Tony Way has played do have a habit of passing away during the story.

This time he co-stars alongside Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow, a sci-fi film that, like the movie classic Groundhog Day, sees the morning being started over and over.

"It was really nice to die and then do it again and again and again," he said of his death in this film.

He plays a soldier, Kimmel, who is one of a specialist crew tasked with saving the world from an alien occupation.

His death lends Edge of Tomorrow one of its most comic moments.

"I could wait for that bit. I don't want to say what it was exactly but it does happen quite a few times in various different ways," he joked at the London premiere of the film.

He also described what it was like to be relax with Cruise on the set of the film.

"We had these rigs so when we wanted to have a bit of rest we'd wander over to that and they'd chain us like it was a crane, yank us up, take the weight off the suit," Way said.

"Tom would be there, Bill Paxton would be there, the whole of J Squad, all just hanging, like heavy metal laundry."

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A 5.29 article about Edge of Tomorrow star Tom Cruise by MacLean‘s Barry Hertz basically says three things: (1) He’s an undiminished box-office dynamo (his films had grossed about $7.3 billion worldwide as of last year) who commands true international drawing power, (2) while he’s lately been choosing pricey, high-impact charismatic action hero projects, his success is largely due to his having chosen shrewdly and always ensuring the presence of smart scripts that are more defined by character than action beats, and of course (3) bringing that shit home with grounded, rounded, believable performances.


Cruise has always conveyed intelligence, drive and intensity, but he became a more interesting actor when stress lines began appearing on his forehead and around his eyes, and vague suggestions of vulnerability started to peek through. It is axiomatic that Cruise’s characters never “lose” but a certain weathering of his features indicated that his pogo-stick relentlessness might not be enough at the end of the day. This began to happen with his landmark performance in Oliver Stone‘s Born on the Fourth of July (hippie makeup, wheelchair, rage) but it really kicked in with Cameron Crowe‘s Jerry Maguire (’97), when Cruise (born in July ’62) was only 34 or 35. That was the first time I sat up in my seat and muttered to myself, “Whoa, he’s got little crow’s feet! No more Joel Goodson. A new phase has begun.”

That was Cruise’s crossing-the-Rubicon performance. I’ve since tended to process his performance as pre- and post-Maguire.

Best pre-Maguire performances: All The Right Moves, Risky Business, Rain Man, Born on The Fourth of July, The Firm.

Best post-Maguire performances: Eyes Wide Shut (although he seems straight-jacketed in that film), Magnolia, Vanilla Sky, all four Mission Impossible films (even though these were hardly about reaching inside and “acting”), Collateral (his third-best performance after Born on the Fourth of July and Jerry Maguire), “Les Grossman” in Tropic Thunder, Jack Reacher (arguably Cruise’s best low-key performance), Edge of Tomorrow.

Decent-to-acceptable Cruise performances in generally tedious, irksome or underwhelming films: Top Gun, Legend, Days of Thunder, Cocktail (I hated, hated, hated this bartending soap opera), The Color of Money, Far and Away (awful…one slamming right cross after another), Interview with the Vampire (by no means “bad” but for some reason I’m having trouble recalling any exceptional scenes), The Last Samurai (in which Cruise played a werewolf who could only be killed with a silver bullet), War of the Worlds, Lions for Lambs, Knight and Day, Oblivion.

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Emily Blunt Talks to Flicks and Bits

Q: I really enjoyed your character in this film. Rita’s a rich, beautifully realized character, who’s incredibly fierce, strong, smart and sensitive. I can imagine there was a lot for you to appreciate and latch onto?

Emily Blunt: Definitely! I play Sergeant Major Rita Vrataski, who’s the most highly decorated soldier in the United Defense Force. She’s a fearsome warrior and she’s notoriously killed over a 1000 Mimics – which is an impossible feat, seeing as most soldiers get killed within moments of landing in a battle. So she’s this rather mythical hero in the movie. My character is enlisted by Tom’s character, Major Cage, and he enlists her help to help train him and help him survive. At the same time she’s using him because he’s inherated the alien’s ability to reset the day, and she sees this is a pretty valuable weapon. So, she uses him to change strategy and change tactics every time he relives the day – to hopefully to go on and win the war.

Q: What was your approach to her….

Emily Blunt: I never approached Rita as a female action character, I just saw her as this lethal powerhouse who was pretty much the toughest person I’ve come across. It was exciting to approach her in that way, you know? She wasn’t this kind of butch woman, she had gotten to where she was by being savvy and intelligent and determined, and I think that’s what excited me – the spirit she had, the chutzpah she had (laughs), and courage she had. She’s an incredibly courageous character. For me the heart of this film is determination and the perseverance of the human spirit. And I think it’s about doing the right thing as well. The film becomes that, it becomes about these characters wanting to do the right thing.

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Tom Cruise Talks to Flicks and Bits

Q: The film is a massive blockbuster with scale, heart, plenty of humor, and a great relationship at the heart of it between your character and Emily Blunt’s Rita. What was it like developing that relationship in the film with Emily, this relationship that has many layers?

Tom Cruise: Developing my character was a lot of fun, and also because you have this relationship with Emily – and that really is what this movies about, this journey of Cage and also of Rita. Rita is an incredible character. To know that she had this power to possibly save the world, and to have lost it, where she was caught into this loop, and came so close and yet failed… she’s also going into this battle knowing that she’s going to die. To have this second chance with this character Cage, trying to train him and keep him in line… the relationship is so interesting and there’s so many layers. Cage and Rita lead the charge together in this story. It’s a total partnership; they may start out as unlikely allies, but they both discover they won’t survive without each other.

She’s this mystery, but as the story unfolds you see and experience her humanity and her stakes and it becomes quite moving. You realise how much time he’s spent with her, he’s seen her die hundreds of times and what that must have been like – this person who he really admires, this person who has made him better. And Emily is just an exceptional actress. That kind of talent in drama and comedy, she can literally do anything. She’s very humble, but she’s an amazing athlete. She’s incredible in this film and she gave it everything. And Cage comes to care for her, but she can’t reciprocate-for her, it’s always just been that one day. That added a great layer to the connection between the two that was really fun to explore.

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