Tom Cruise, the 60-year-old, 5-foot-7 actor with dozens of action film credits to his name and several more in the works, has never had a week like Melanie Lynskey just had.
While Cruise, and other male actors like him, are rarely called upon to defend their casting in action roles despite what some could view as physical limitations, Lynskey gave a tutorial on how strength goes beyond build when she was pulled into a position to defend her casting in the role of revolutionary movement leader Kathleen Coghlan in HBO's "The Last of Us." And she didn't just do it for other women, she did it for everyone who's looked upon as weak because of their outsides rather than their insides, where true strength originates. See the kind of selfless wisdom a life lived without your head being completely up your own crack can bring?
