In Her Words...

Maybe we didn't hear about a teenage girl making that kind of score because who's going to admit to dropping thousands of dollars to a teenage girl? They'd die of shame if it got public =) I hope it's true too.

Offtopic: Does anyone have a TCOM handy? Wanna pull it out? A buddy of mine saw a trick shot in the movie and wanted to know how it was done. I was able to show him (on the first try! yay!) but I had trouble believing tom cruise did it himself. I mean, it's not that hard, but still. Basically tom's cue ball is where the object ball would be in the classic straight pool break shot. The OB is about 8 inches north of that and lined up for a slightly angled cut into the far corner (so the OB must travel like 2/3rds the length of the corner. The way it's angled, the CB would naturally travel towards the opposite corner if hit with top. But a ball is partially in the way. So to make it you must sort of hit it with "follow masse". Hard to describe but think of the 'passing lane' trick shot and you're on the right track. The cue ball travels forward and then hooks a bit sideways. It's a little tricky and requires jacking up and he swears tom did it himself, the camera didn't cut away from him. I am skeptical.

Creedo, I was told by "Grady Seasons," who is standing right next to me as I write this, that the shot you speak about was executed by Tom Cruise. It took almost all day to shoot it. He said he thinks it took 27 takes or thereabouts.

The only one that Tom Cruise did not shoot, they shot like 30-some takes at it, and he just couldn't do it. That was the jump shot. So they had Mike Sigel come in and do it the first try, as his double. ;)
 
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