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Tom Ford is loathe to discuss his upcoming movie project -- he told Out's editor in chief, Aaron Hicklin, that "God knows it may never get made, and someone will write in [the New York Post's] Page Six, 'Tom Ford's movie career fails...'"
But we did manage to extract a few other observations from his time in the Hollywood machine:
Out: You went to Hollywood for a while. That must have been quite different from the fashion industry.
Tom Ford: Very, very different -- very slow in terms of how long it takes projects to get set up. People are much more polite, oddly enough, to each other. They will nice you to death. If you give a screenplay to someone to read they will never say, "This sucks, this is terrible, this whole act is awful," they'll say, "Oh it's really great, just not what we're looking for right now." I had lived there for a bit back in the '80s, and I've had a house there since 1996, and we have a lot of friends there, so it was a very easy transition for us.
But too slow for you in some ways?
It's funny, my stock in Hollywood went up when I opened the store. Because Hollywood's like that. Before I was something, and then I was like every other guy in town trying to get a movie made, and even though people were very friendly about it, I wasn't Tom Ford any more, in that way. And now all of a sudden, because I have something else going, there's no desperation, so it's changed again.
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Hmm, maybe he needs a new Entourage-like agent (that's Jeremy Piven up there with him) to make sure everyone's returning his calls!
You can still check out Terry Richardson's dirty/clean photos of Tom in the ring and in the showers at Out.com.
And stay tuned to Popnography and Out.com's StyleList this week for more exclusive outtakes and photos from Out's November cover story...
Previously > He's a lover, not a fighter > Privates blend > Escape from LA flames
Maybe Jeremy needs to play him in the biopic?
Posted by: BT | January 01, 2008 at 01:07 PM