Not only does Tom Cruise do his own stunts, in at least one case who also penned his own monologue. The “Mission: Impossible” actor sat down with BFI Southbank’s Edith Bowman to discuss the franchise’s latest installment, “The Final Reckoning,” as well as his storied career. During the conversation, he revealed an anecdote about the famous “respect the cock” scene from 1999’s “Magnolia,” which writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson once called “the best movie [he’d] ever make.”
“The whole monologue wasn’t there at the beginning. That wasn’t there,” Cruise said. “There was a couple of sentences. And I said, ‘Look, just come over to my…