Tom Cruise Says He Would ‘Love’ to Make a Movie with ‘Enormously Talented’ Scarlett Johansson

The action star, while out promoting 'Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One' in Rome on Sunday, spoke highly of Johansson and her career

Tom Cruise is responding to Scarlett Johansson's comments that she would love to work with him.

The actor, 60, while out promoting Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One in Rome, told Entertainment Tonight on Sunday, "I'd love to make a movie with her!"

The outlet showed Cruise ET's interview with Johansson, 38, last week at her Asteroid City premiere, when she first expressed interest in working with the Top Gun: Maverick star.

Cruise said that he's "been wanting to make a movie with her" and later added, "Sounds like I'm gonna."

"She is enormously talented," Cruise continued. "So charismatic, versatile. She has great physical ability obviously."

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Johansson, "the world's highest-paid actress" per Forbes' calculations in 2019, recently reflected on the more challenging aspects of her earlier career, including rejection.

“I got turned down for two roles — the first was Iron Man 2 and then the other one was Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity,” she told Variety last month.

She continued: “I had wanted that role so much. It was sort of the straw that broke the camel’s back. I felt really frustrated and hopeless. Like, ‘Am I doing the right job?’ "

While Johansson didn't land the role in Gravity, she praised Sandra Bullock, 58, for her performance.

"I did a screen test for the movie Gravity, that Sandra Bullock is fantastic in, but I had to be in like the full whole space suit thing, and sort of pretend I was kind of like floating in space," she recalled. "Even though I was just sitting in a chair with a helmet on."

The mom of two said she was typecast as a bombshell following her role in Sofia Coppola’s 2003 film, Lost in Translation. The stereotype stunted her growth as an actress.

"The work I was being offered [after] felt deeply unfulfilling,” she explained. “I think I was offered every Marilyn Monroe script ever. I was like, ‘Is this the end of the road creatively?’ ” 

Related: Scarlett Johansson Nearly Quit Acting After Losing 'Gravity' Role to Sandra Bullock: 'I Felt Really Frustrated'

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Elsewhere in Cruise's interview Sunday, the adrenaline junkie, who famously performs his own stunts, revealed how he relaxes.

"This is what I do. I make movies!" he told ET. "This is it. I love it. I absolutely love it. This is a privilege."

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