Tom Cruise returns to big screen with Afghan-themed film
www.chinaview.cn 2007-10-23 10:36:31
BEIJING, Oct. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Hollywood actor Tom Cruise made his
big screen comeback with his Afghan-themed film "Lions for Lambs,"
which is due to debut on Nov. 9, media reported Tuesday.
"Lions for Lambs," Hollywood's latest examination of U.S. foreign
policy, is about two soldiers serving in Afghanistan and political
intrigue back in the United States.
Cruise plays an ambitious rightwing senator giving an interview to
TV journalist played by Meryl Streep.
The film, directed by Robert Redford and also starring Robert
Redford, has been reported by some media as the era's fiercest
political debate about the Bush White House and assails post-9/11
foreign policy, especially the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
"I think that films like this are interesting and important and I
think it's anyone's place if they want to do it," Cruise told the
media ahead of the film's premiere at the London Film
Festival.
"We are free to communicate about anything we want and any subject
we want, so I think it's absolutely correct."
The actor also revealed that he had studied some politician for his
role as the senator.
"I studied many. I'll never tell exactly who, but there's many
months of research that went into this character to not make him
into a caricature but into a human being with real problems and to
reflect that idea."