One of the greatest movie thrillers in the last few decades has to be Gone Girl. The book-to-screen adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel of the same name was helmed by David Fincher and starred Ben Affleck and the wonderfully terrifying Rosamund Pike. It’s hard to imagine a single other person in the role of Amy Dunne, but on the eve of filming, Pike wasn’t so sure she could pull it off. She recently opened up about this moment of major self-doubt and how Tom Cruise, of all people, stepped in at just the right time.
During her appearance on The Graham Norton Show (via People) to promote her 2025 movie release, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, she revealed that she turned to an unexpected source of comfort: her Jack Reacher co-star, Tom Cruise. She recounted:
