Specifically, it was more like it than Tom Cruise, the first actor to play the character in the movies Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (now streaming free on Tubi). Fans had been aghast at the casting of the diminutive 5'7" Cruise, and never got over it. The movies did pretty well on mid-sized budgets, but Child eventually came to agree with his readers and opted to find a taller dude and reboot the adaptation for TV.
