MI 8 (Cruise Tirade at Crew Leaked)

It's one of the few shoots active while so much of the film industry remains dead, peoples' jobs and livelihoods on hold. I don't like bosses screaming in employees faces but in this case he would be dead right. Hollywood's watching, and careers depend on this shoot.

The only caveat would be that I'm curious as to the severity of the transgression that earned the tongue lashing. If it were a trivial, passing failure then ... eh. Maybe overkill by Cruise. But only maybe.

Michael Bay v. Fox wasn't that long ago; Bay simply makes studios a shít-tonne of money, so has gotten away with being a horrible human being. Fox IIRC was treated badly by the studio - the scuttlebutt being she was effectively blackballed at the wink & nod of Spielberg, who hated her tell-all candour on a film he helped produce.

Always think of Stanley Kubrick when I think of tyrants, who caused poor Shelly Duvall's hair to fall out from the stress of shooting The Shining.

I dunno: I'm not convinced being a galloping a$$hole should be forgiven or tolerated, regardless of the era; film production should be a collaborative effort & there's too much leeway in mistaking toxic aggression as part of any "troubled" artistic expression. The 'aul nonsense that one should suffer in ones art. Plenty of artists and crafts-people can do their thing without attacking others.