Tom Cruise’s latest ‘Mission: Impossible' almost featured a de-aged Julia Roberts

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Tom Cruise delivered a blockbuster with this summer's 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1,' and it turns out another superstar almost joined the cast.

former love interest in"Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One" almost looked totally different.

The movie features a brief flashback to 1989 for a scene that involves Cruise and his character's girlfriend. As it is now, the scene plays out without showing Cruise's face and has Mariela Garriga playing his girlfriend, Marie. But director Christopher McQuarrie originally had a different idea to cast"I said, 'OK, if I were doing this sequence, it would be Tom in, say, 1989,'" McQuarrie explained on the"Spoiler Special" film podcast.

Tom Cruise nearly appeared with Julia Roberts, both de-aged by 30 years, in the latest"Mission: Impossible" movie.was released in 1996, and he theorized if it were to come out in 1989,"Top Gun" director Tony Scott would have been a good pick to direct it. "We looked at ‘Days of Thunder,'" he said, referring to another of Scott's films,"and we looked at the style of it, and we started thinking what would it look like if Tony Scott had shot this, and who would it have been?"I looked back at who was the ingénue, who was the breakout star in 1989? And right around then was ‘Mystic Pizza.’ And I was like, ‘Oh my God.

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