director Christopher McQuarrie and his star, Tom Cruise, turned to me. They wanted me to play the villain in the first Jack Reacher film. That was in 2011; the film was premiered in 2012. Before I agreed, I looked closely at the screenplay and found it more intelligent than those of run-of-the-mill action movies. The part of Zec was a challenge to me. Of course, there was a whole row of villains, and they all lashed out with their fists and stomped about and opened fire on one another indiscriminately with their disagreeably large assault rifles.
