00:00Randy Quaid is sharing some thoughts on Anne Hathaway's casting in the Days of Thunder sequel
00:03that he maybe should have kept to himself. Over the weekend, Tom Cruise announced that he'll
00:08return as NASCAR driver Cole Trickle for Days of Thunder 2. He also revealed that Oscar winner
00:13Anne Hathaway will play his co-lead, who is a team owner and engineer.
00:18Now what? Now what? Let's make the movie, now what? I'm gonna have this baby and then we're
00:25gonna make this movie. That's a good idea. In the 1990 original, Quaid played a race team owner who
00:29recruits Cruise's character Cole into NASCAR, while Nicole Kidman played a neurosurgeon who
00:33becomes Cole's love interest. After working on the movie together, Kidman and Cruise of course got
00:37married in December 1990 and later divorced in 2001. Quaid wrote on X,
00:42We need Nicole back. Don't be a pussy, Tom Cruise. You need the original girl. It's not personal,
00:48it's filmmaking. Anne isn't sexy because, and if you haven't noticed, she's pregnant. If I were in
00:54control of production, a real sequel worth watching for Days of Thunder would be seeing Tom and Nicole
00:58together on screen again. We don't need a new girl, we need a new race car. The actor, whose feed
01:03is
01:03full of MAGA-related content, went on to say, Anne Hathaway is a leftist, woke, horrible choice for
01:09Days of Thunder NASCAR audience who are MAGA. The sexy older chick for Tom in this film needs to be
01:14Nicole. That's the casting that would sell the idea. It's interesting because when we made the first one,
01:18there was also a rush to get it out. Editors slept in the cutting room on shifts. This is a
01:23weird
01:23thing, like they want it to come out and tank. Many ex-users defended Hathaway, who was fresh off two
01:28with The Devil Wears Prada 2 and The Odyssey. Quaid's comments come after the actor posted a video
01:33suggesting that he would be a part of the sequel. Hey, Tom Cruise just called me. We're making Days
01:38of Thunder 2. Paramount had no immediate comment. The film is set to be released on June 2nd,
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