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“I was doing some drills and I ran into a little bench…where there’s never been a bench before.” Well, even Tom Cruise trips up occasionally.Known for working on the big and small screen in equal measures, Alexander Skarsgard might be the most high profile of the choices found here, but he would still be a solid pick for the role - assuming he can make it work. Currently adding volleyball to her already impressive skill-set, it explains the bruise on her leg. Yarosh plays Line, the most beloved member of the team, while Helen Hunt co-stars as the coach. “It’s a true story about a group of girls and their volleyball team in Iowa back in 2011,” she says. When we meet, she’s in the midst of shooting sports drama Live Like Line. Step into someone else’s shoes and live their life, instead of mine.” That’s what I love about acting – getting to be someone that’s not me. “I love playing people that are different to me.
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And I would want to do that full time.” Somehow you suspect Yarosh may find that difficult if her career continues to blossom in the way it’s doing so far. “I’m still taking part-time classes, because I still want to study biology. “Right now, I’m working and putting college off for a little bit,” she says. And for my family – they thought it was extremely important for me to get an education, which it is.” Yet when Yarosh was cast in Heroes Reborn, the short-lived reboot of the popular sci-fi show, she abandoned her ideas of study. “School has always been a priority for me. But even then she was considering putting her acting career on hold to study medicine. Winning bit-parts in shows like 30 Rock and Law & Order, Yarosh also secured recurring roles in See Dad Run and Shameless, playing Debbie Gallagher’s pal Holly. “So it wasn’t a huge jump, more of a gradual move.” But when she kept booking “little projects here and there”, she and her mother kept extending their stay, until L.A. The middle child of three – older sister Mani also acts, younger brother Peter doesn’t – Yarosh was initially supposed to be in town for just three months. Just a regular old pal.”Īfter a fracture to her growth plate meant she had to take an enforced break, Yarosh was determined to continue performing, and she and her mother (and her dog) moved to Los Angeles when she was 12. “The second I met him, he was so warm, open and engaging I just forgot that he was Tom Cruise – and probably the biggest action star in the world. “The second we were finished filming, Tom ran over to my Dad and my Dad was so confused…and Tom just jumped on him and gave him a huge hug, and my Dad was like, ‘What’s happening!?’” It’s a sweet story, typical of the admiration Yarosh has for hugely famous co-star. She recounts the moment he arrived on set on Thanksgiving last year. “Whenever one of his movies would be in theatres, my Dad would take all of us and go see it.” While it’s no shock to hear he was psyched to see his daughter work with his hero, Cruise was apparently just as “stoked” to meet her father. “I probably watched Top Gun millions of times growing up,” Yarosh laughs. Given their shared interests, it’s no surprise to learn Yarosh’s father is a huge Cruise fan – right back to when he was making aerial classic Top Gun, racetrack drama Days of Thunder and The Color of Money with Newman. Already the proud owner of a motorcycle permit, she also loves boxing and archery (taught by Khatuna Lorig, who coached Jennifer Lawrence for The Hunger Games). “I’m getting my pilot’s licence right now,” she enthuses, explaining she flies the “super-safe” Cirrus SR20 monoplane.
But away from designer finery, rather like Cruise, she’s all-action. hotel, sporting a slinky striped dress and silver heels.
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Yarosh, who made her breakthrough in the US version of TV show Shameless, is blonde, fresh-faced and, when we meet in an L.A. Cruise is back as Reacher, the taciturn ex-military police major turned maverick dispenser of justice the 18 year-old Yarosh plays Sam, a foster care teenager who may or may not be Reacher’s daughter.
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“We have all the same interests in real life.” The teenager is talking Tom Cruise, her co-star in the mega-star’s latest action sequel, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back – the second film to come from the Lee Child-penned series of books. “We clicked in a way that’s so unusual,” says Danika Yarosh.