Manny Jacinto slams ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ for cutting his lines: ‘Tom Cruise is writing stories for Tom Cruise’
Manny Jacinto, 36, is speaking out about “Top Gun: Maverick” cutting down his part. “It’s flattering that there was a little bit of an outcry, but it wasn’t shocking to me,” Jacinto told GQ in an interview published Wednesday. Jacinto, who is Filipino-Canadian and is married to “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” actress Dianne Doan, 33, added, “It kind of fuels you, because at the end of the day, Tom Cruise is writing stories for Tom Cruise.” He continued, “It’s up to us — Asian Americans, people of color — to be that [for ourselves].