But when it came time to film the novel, the mercurialTop Gunactor didn’t make the final cut.
But she says that Cruise still played a critical role in the film.
“It’s the actor Tom Cruise.”

Tom Cruise in ‘Magnolia’ and Christian Bale in ‘American Psycho’.Credit:New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection; Kerry Hayes/Lionsgate
Ellis, via Bateman, describes the actor as “much shorter in person.”
I thought it was quite a good movie, andTop Guntoo.
I really thought that was good."

Mary Harron and Christian Bale on the set of ‘American Psycho’.Lions Gate/Courtesy Everett Collection
“It was calledCocktail.
The film was calledCocktail,” Cruise replies.
A decade later, EW reported again onprotests launched against the film- before it was even released in theaters.

EW has reached out to reps for Cruise and Bale.


Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in ‘American Psycho’.Everett