Updated On: 10 November, 2025 10:26 AM IST | Los Angeles | IANS
Tom Cruise recalled his first meeting with filmmaker Dustin Hoffman at a restaurant with his sister, and how she pushed him to go and talk to the filmmaker, who invited Tom to meet him and offered him Rain Man

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Hollywood royalty Tom Cruise once revealed how he got ‘Rain Man’. A recently resurfaced clip shows the Hollywood megastar recollecting meeting Dustin Hoffman when he was nearly arm-twisted by his sister Cass to walk up, and say hello to Dustin Hoffman.
He said, “My little sister who`s here, Cass, we were at a restaurant, you know, I was eating at a table, and she goes, ‘There`s Dustin Hoffman’. I looked up, and there he was with a hat, and he was doing ‘Death of a Salesman’, and he was ordering takeout. She goes, ‘You go over and you say hello to him’. I said, ‘What? I`m not going to go say hello to him’. She goes, ‘You love him, and you know his career, you can go over and say hello’. She doesn`t do stuff like that, and I don`t walk up to people and introduce myself”.