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“So we thought, well, if they’re going to be angry, let’s make sure they’re angry before they see the movie and not after they see the movie. “We knew very early on that fans were going to have a reaction no matter who we cast.” “When we started to compile the list of six foot-five, 250 pound, blond-haired, blue-eyed, American actors, we discovered that not only were there none, but there had never been one and there were none in the pipeline,” explained McQuarrie. (Fans also howled because Cruise clearly had an inside track to getting the part - he was a co-producer before he signed on to also star in it). The fictional Reacher is a blonde, six foot, five inch brawny behemoth - which has left some fans of the book outraged at the perceived miscasting of Cruise, a brunette who hovers around 5’7″. Pike, an ethereal blonde, appeared at the New York press conference for Jack Reacher alongside fellow Brit thespian David Oyelowo, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, and author Lee Child, who wrote the best selling Jack Reacher book series. (American audiences will recognize her as Helen, Carey Mulligan‘s female counterpart in An Education, or as Jane Bennett in Joe Wright‘s 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.) “We manage to get the satisfaction of a love affair without ever touching,” she said. The pair do ignite plenty of sparks, but there is no actual love scene between them. Cruise, with whom she stars in Jack Reacher, a taut thriller where she plays a defense attorney who spars with Cruise’s title character.
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“Tom and I had a very easy chemistry,” says British actress Rosamund Pike.