Tom Cruise Raced Go-Karts with Brad Pitt Throughout ‘Interview with the Vampire’

It wasn’t all existential gloom on the set of 1994’s Interview with the Vampire, in response to Tom Cruise.

The actor, who starred as wickedly charismatic blood-sucker Lestat reverse Brad Pitt’s brooding Louis within the moody movie primarily based on Anne Rice’s 1979 novel, shared a fond reminiscence of his former costar throughout Paramount Photos’ Thursday, April 3, presentation at CinemaCon 2025 in Las Vegas.

In response to CinemaBlend, whereas discussing his upcoming movie Mission: Unattainable – The Ultimate Reckoning, Cruise famous director Christopher McQuarrie’s work on the script for Pitt’s 2013 movie World Warfare Z.

“Brad’s received a brand new film, [F1], with Jerry Bruckheimer, Joe Kosinski,” Cruise, 62, mentioned. “I can’t wait to see that this summer time. It’ll be superior.”

The Kosinski-directed, Bruckheimer-produced sports activities drama, by which Pitt stars as a former Components 1 driver, is about for a June 27 launch.

“It’s nice to see Brad driving,” Cruise added. “He’s excellent. He’s an excellent driver. Consider me, I’ve raced towards him. After we have been doing Interview with the Vampire we’d go and race go-karts. We’d actually end and go drive go-karts all night time.”

The lighthearted anecdote appears to contradict what Pitt has mentioned about filming Interview with the Vampire. In 2011, he instructed Leisure Weekly that he was “depressing” whereas making the movie, describing the expertise as “Six months within the f—— darkish.”

He additionally took difficulty with the best way his character was translated from novel to display screen in comparison with Cruise’s.

“Within the film, they took the sensational elements of Lestat and made that the heartbeat of the movie, and people issues are very pleasant and excellent, however for me, there was simply nothing to do,” he defined. “And no discredit to Tom, man. He had strain on him. There have been all of the fanboys of the e book. He had all this strain to make it work, and he made it work — and good on him.

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Equally, Interview with the Vampire director Neil Jordan instructed Selection final 12 months that he thought Pitt, 61, “suffered” on set for a similar purpose his character suffered within the movie.

“We have been taking pictures at night time continually, we by no means noticed the daylight for months and months, and I believe it affected him, however it was a part of the character as nicely,” Jordan mirrored. “Louis is any individual who’s punished by a 300-year interval by [Lestat]. So the best way the function affected Brad was not in contrast to the journey Louis himself needed to undergo.”