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Cruise reveals Rain Man role landed in London takeaway
Yorkshire Evening Post
|May 13, 2025
Tom Cruise has revealed he landed his role in the Oscar-winning film Rain Man after a chance encounter inside a London takeaway with the film's star Dustin Hoffman.
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Speaking at BFI Southbank on Sunday, Cruise told interviewer Edith Bowman that he and his younger sister, Cass Capazorio, had spotted Hoffman while getting food in the capital.
The 62-year-old told the crowd: “She said, 'You've got to go over and say you love him.'
This story is from the May 13, 2025 edition of Yorkshire Evening Post.
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