Actor Randy Quaid is reportedly not holding back when it comes to his opinion on the upcoming Days of Thunder sequel, publicly urging his former co-star Tom Cruise to cut ties with Anne Hathaway and bring back original leading lady Nicole Kidman instead.
Quaid took to X on Saturday with a series of blunt posts criticizing Hathaway's involvement in the project while offering his own casting suggestions.
"We need Nicole back," Quaid wrote, responding to a clip Cruise had posted of himself and Hathaway teasing the sequel. He was referring to Nicole Kidman, Cruise's ex-wife, who starred alongside him in the original 1990 film.
Quaid didn't mince words in his follow-up post, telling Cruise directly not to shy away from making the change.
"Don't be a p*ssy, Tom Cruise. You need the original girl. It's not personal; it's filmmaking. Anne isn't sexy, because and if you haven't noticed, she's pregnant," Quaid wrote.
The actor, best known for playing "Cousin Eddie" in the Vacation film franchise, argued that reuniting Cruise and Kidman on screen would be an obvious win for the production. He then pivoted back to criticizing Hathaway over her political leanings.
"Anne Hathaway is a leftist, woke, horrible choice for DAYS OF THUNDER NASCAR audience who are MAGA," Quaid wrote. "The sexy older chick for Tom in this film needs to be Nicole. That's the casting that would sell the idea. It's interesting because when we made the first one there was also a rush to get it out; editors slept in the cutting room on shifts. This is a weird thing, like they want it to come out and tank."
Quaid, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump who has previously called him the "greatest" president in American history, is far from the only conservative voice to take issue with Hathaway this summer.
The actress faced significant backlash from right-wing critics in July after a 2018 speech of hers resurfaced online, timed alongside her prominent role in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.
In the speech, Hathaway said, "With the exception of being a cisgender male, everything about how I was born has put me at the current center of a damaging and widely accepted myth. That myth is that gayness orbits around straitness, transgender orbits around cisgender, and that all races orbit around whiteness. And it is a myth that keeps money and power in the hands of the few, instead of being invested in the lives of the free."
She went on to say she "rejected" that myth and, alongside others who shared her views, was actively working to "destroy" it.
