Director Ed Zwick recalled talking to Tom Cruise about his relationship with his son, Connor, to help prompt genuine emotion from him while filming a scene in The Last Samurai in an excerpt of his new memoir, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood. Zwick wrote about a day on set where he specifically noticed how “sweet and attentive” Cruise was being to a young actor. This gave the 71-year-old the idea to have him use that paternal energy for an upcoming scene. “‘Tell me about your son,’ I said. He looked at me, surprised,” he remembered telling theTop Gun actor…
