The Safdie Brothers may be splitting up — yes, that means that anticipated follow-up to Uncut Gems is likely not happening — but that doesn't mean Benny and Josh can't still bond over their shared fascination for Tom Cruise and Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia.
The sibling directors joined fellow filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson on the A24 Podcast, where they detailed how as teenagers they came across an in-faux-mercial starring Cruise as Frank T.J. Mackey, his pick-up artist character from one of the best Tom Cruise movies, the 1999 drama Magnolia. As Benny Safdie told Anderson:
