A) I had no clue Bronson Pinchot was still in the public eye. And B) that he had dirt to dish on Tom Cruise.
The former Perfect Strangers star was reflecting on his years in the entertainment business with AVClub.com when he bashed his former Risky Business co-star, Tom Cruise.
“We thought Tom [Cruise] was the biggest bore on the face of the Earth,” the classically trained Pinchot reveals. “Tom was 20, I was 23. Tom had picked up this knack of calling everyone by their character names, because that would probably make your performance better, and I don’t agree with that.
"He was tense and made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments, like, ‘You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there?’ I mean, his lingo was larded with the most… There was no basis for it. It was like, ‘It’s a nice day, I’m glad there are no gay people standing here.’ Very, very strange.”
Pinchot adds that he surprised that Risky Business was a box office smash which launched Cruise’s mostly-successful movie career.
“I thought the movie would disappear,” he says. “All of the actors who talked about him were like, ‘What is this guy all about?’ And you know, honestly, I never got it, and I don’t get it to this day. But it was his breakout film. He always talked about himself like he was a mega-superstar; that was weird, too.”
Pinchot reflected on his TV days, where he played fish out of water Balki Bartokomous for 150 episodes of Perfect Strangers opposite Mark Linn-Baker, where he discovered his knack for physical comedy.
He was also depressed, due to some “stuff” that happened to him when he was a kid.
“I was actually quite depressed during Perfect Strangers, and the contrast between what I was playing and what I felt like was a bit much. And that was a hard time, actually.”
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