If there’s one main superstar you may be shocked to be taught by no means hosted SNL, it’s Tom Cruise. Not solely that, however he hasn’t even made a cameo in Studio 8H. However it wasn’t for a scarcity of making an attempt, as Cruise was as soon as virtually pulled right into a sketch that includes his outdated Prime Gun buddy Val Kilmer, till time outran Cruise.
As former SNL author Michael Schur remembered, Kilmer was serving as host of 1 season 26 episode, enjoying a model of his Prime Gun character, “Iceman”, now working for Delta. Studying that Tom Cruise was available, the SNL crew got here up with a plan to lastly recruit him for a cameo whereas he watched the sketch unfold. The thought was for Cruise to enter the scene and convey Kilmer out of his state of affairs whereas paying homage to Prime Gun.
However in a really non-Tom Cruise transfer, the quick window had handed, and the mega star would miss his probability to be on SNL. “The sketch ended and the applause was cued and Val got whisked away to run to change. We missed it by like eight seconds. We missed a Tom Cruise walk-on into the sketch, which would have just, 30 Rock would have crumbled to the ground.”
Little doubt a cameo from Tom Cruise would have been simply what that episode of SNL wanted — not that there was something improper with Val Kilmer enjoying Burt Bacharach…Actually, exterior of some “Weekend Update” jabs, Cruise would solely be represented on the present by Ben Stiller, whose impersonation is among the greatest on the market.
However even being off-camera at SNL remains to be a stand-up transfer from Tom Cruise, who is understood to be one of the vital loyal guys in Hollywood. That it concerned Val Kilmer is doubly cool, as Cruise has remained shut with through the years, even securing him a much-deserved cameo of his personal in Prime Gun: Maverick, a film he stated he wouldn’t have made except he may carry again Kilmer.
If Tom Cruise have been to have ever hosted SNL, what could be some dream sketches to see him in? Might he nonetheless host it now?
