Connor Cruise First Major Film Role – His famous father has played the hero with action roles in films like Top Gun and Mission: Impossible.
And now Connor Cruise is joining him in the spotlight in his first major acting role in the remake of Eighties teen action film Red Dawn.
The 17-year-old plays Daryl Bates in the movie, a member of armed resistance forces the Wolverines.
Connor made his film debut in 2008, with a small role playing a young Will Smith in Seven Pounds.
His new film, due out in cinemas on November 21, is about a group of teenagers who look to save their Washington State town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers.
Directed by Bourne Supremacy and Spiderman stunt co-ordinator Dan Bradley, the action thriller stars ubiquitous Aussie heartthrob Chris Hemsworth.
Other leads in the movie are rising star Josh Hutcherson of The Hunger Games fame, and Isabel Lucas, another young Australian whose career in Tinseltown is currently in high gear.
Connor appears in the latter half of the Red Dawn trailer, at one point wielding a gun, positioned in a sniper-style pose.
‘Connor is a really cool kid,’ Josh Hutcherson said recently of his co-star, who plays his best friend in the movie.
‘When you look at his upbringing and how it’s been different than so many people, he is very well-rounded, grounded, extremely smart, physically — just great at all sports,’ Hutcherson told Yahoo! Movies.
‘You can see where he gets that from — his dad,” Hutcherson told the website.
‘Connor, like me, loved the action stuff,’ The Hunger Games star said of his on-set experience.
‘Any time there were explosions or gunfire or whatever, he and I were two of the most excited people on the set. That was pretty cool, to have somebody that shared my enthusiasm for explosions.’
Cruise and Kidman adopted Connor in 1995, six years before their separation in 2001. His older sister Isabella was adopted in 1992.
Isabella and Connor are siblings to Suri Cruise, the daughter of recently divorced Tom and Katie.
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