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Tom Cruise Unauthorized
by Wensley Clarkson
page 324
One incident that slightly soured the atmosphere on set occurred during the filming of the climactic courtroom scene
Jack Nicholson's character lunges at Cruise and gets restrained by two marine guards.
While being made up between takes a real marine who was cast as one of the guards joked "I don't want to be prettier than tom"
Overhearing the remark cruise lost his temper and they had the following exchange ..
"What do you mean by that???"
" i don't want to be a pretty boy like you"
"Yeah then you'd have to get a real job"
get a real job tom told the $17,000 a year marine
cruise received $12.5M for a few good men