Greater than 35 years later, Cole Trickle’s new main girl has ruffled some feathers for a earlier Days of Thunder co-star.
After Anne Hathaway was introduced to hitch Tom Cruise in Paramount’s Days of Thunder 2, Randy Quaid had some unsavory phrases for the Oscar-winning actress, who’s at present pregnant together with her third little one.
“We’d like Nicole again. Don’t be a pussy, @TomCruise,” he wrote on X. “You want the unique lady. It’s not private; it’s filmmaking. Anne isn’t attractive, as a result of and in the event you haven’t seen, she’s pregnant.”
After assembly on the set of the Tony Scott-helmed racing drama, Cruise was married to Kidman from 1990 to 2001. The pair, who additionally starred in Ron Howard’s Far and Away (1992) and Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Huge Shut (1999), has not appeared onscreen collectively since their divorce.
Quaid, who performed NASCAR staff proprietor Tim Daland in Days of Thunder, added in one other submit, “If I have been in charge of manufacturing, an actual sequel price awaiting DAYS OF THUNDER can be seeing Tom and Nicole collectively on display screen once more. We don’t want a brand new lady; we’d like a brand new race automobile!”
“Anne Hathaway is a leftist, woke, horrible selection for DAYS OF THUNDER NASCAR viewers who’re MAGA,” he continued in one other submit. “The attractive older chick for Tom on this movie must be Nicole. That’s the casting that might promote the thought. It’s attention-grabbing as a result of after we made the primary one there was additionally a rush to get it out; editors slept within the slicing room on shifts. It is a bizarre factor, like they need it to come back out and tank.”
The rant got here hours after Quaid appeared to tease his return for the sequel, which may now show awkward, if true. “Hey, Tom Cruise simply referred to as me. We’re making Days of Thunder 2!” mentioned Quaid in a video. Deadline has reached out to Paramount.
On Saturday, Paramount Footage introduced that Hathaway would be part of Cruise within the sequel, premiering June 2, 2028 in Imax, with the pair celebrating the information in a video from Daytona. Whereas plot particulars are unknown, the actress is predicted to play a staff proprietor and engineer.
Final month, Jonathan Levine was tapped to direct the followup, which is penned by Will Staples. Cruise serves as a producer, together with Jerry Bruckheimer and Tommy Harper.
Days of Thunder, directed by the late Tony Scott, was launched throughout the summer time of 1990 and made $82.6 million on the home field workplace, and $157.9M worldwide. Cruise starred within the Robert Towne-written pic as Cole Trickle, a hot-headed rookie inventory automobile driver who joins NASCAR and should overcome private {and professional} challenges to attain success.
