Tom Cruise

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Tom Cruise awarded honorary Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival (Page Six)

The "Top Gun: Maverick" star was moved to tears by the accolade -- the most prestigious award at the iconic annual film festival.

I’m never going to forget this evening,” he said. “Thank you for your time. The “Top Gun: Maverick” star was moved to tears by the accolade — the most prestigious award at the iconic annual film festival.

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F-18 Super Hornets – Did Tom Cruise Really Fly US Navy's ... (EurAsian Times)

Top Gun 2 will be released on May 27th, and it has everything an aviation fan would want to see. The movie features Hollywood heartthrob Tom Cruise, ...

Yes, “…he flies a P-51 in the movie, and he flies helicopters. I don’t make a movie just to make a movie. This could certainly result in logistical headaches for the film’s financing. I was always developing and studying the rigs. The navy, however, denied him permission to fly an F-18 fighter jet, revealed veteran producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Tom Cruise told Empire that he agreed to make his return as Maverick on one condition: “I said to Jerry [Bruckheimer], ‘I’ll do it if…’ meaning I’m not going to do the CGI stuff.”

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How Tom Cruise looks better than ever at 59: Star favours skin ... (Daily Mail)

The Top Gun star, 59, made a swoon-worthy appearance on the red carpet at Cannes Film Festival last night, looking dapper in a black tuxedo and a beachy ...

In addition his cheek bone, cheeks and jawline looks filled out, which in the absence of general weight gain is likely due to the use of a collagen filler to plump these areas out - just look carefully at his tear troughs and you can see they are filled out.' Tom was previously asked about surgery rumours back in a 2012 interview with Playboy magazine and he denied having gone under the knife. Right, cosmetic doctor Dr Tijion Esho, who appears in the Netflix series Bodyfixers. He says Madonna's look are possibly 'an amalgamation of decades of procedures' This is completely natural, normal and will happen to most of us as we age.' Tom underwent a full Aviation Survival Training Curriculum before going up in the US Navy F-18, as did his co-stars. September wasn't the first time Tom has shown a 'puffy face'. In 2016, BAFTA viewers were shocked by the Rain Man star's frozen appearance Miles Berry MS, FRCS consultant plastic surgeon of Cosmeticsurgery-partners.co.uk, remarked: 'I would agree that Botox is likely to produce the smooth, unlined forehead. This is completely natural, normal and will happen to most of us as we age.' I personally feel his injector has used far too much toxin resulting in a rather unnatural shiny look. The father-of-three sparked speculation he had fillers after sporting a fuller face during the LA Dodgers match, but looked significantly trimmer last night. Why Tom Cruise looks better than ever at 59! 'We also notice increase of fatty tissue in the lower aspects of our face and you can see this as he is showing a bit more volume around the chin and neck which can be due to this.

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See Tom Cruise Get A Standing Ovation At Top Gun: Maverick's ... (Cinema Blend)

While the Cannes Film Festival is still largely known as the festival for more highbrow films, in recent years it has been more than happy to show the ...

And Tom Cruise was given a standing ovation before the movie was even shown. Whether it’s a great movie, or simply a movie with great practical action scenes, there is likely something that fans of Cruise will love about the new movie. Tom Cruise is an actor who has had an incredible career.

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Danger Zone, why Top Gun: Maverick is the most Tom Cruise film ... (CBC.ca)

Long delayed and much anticipated, the sequel to the 1986 classic Top Gun soars into theatres soon. The film offers stunning aerial footage and a movie star ...

He's gone beyond the needs of the flesh. The jet has become a projection of his will. This smart bomb of nostalgia repurposes every element from the original, from the sweaty beach sports sequence to the synth pop pumping in the background. Yes, the Tom Cruise of 1986 was a bit of a babyface who looked like he should barely be driving, never mind flying $30-million fighter jets. As Cruise zooms past the tarmac, little does he know this is a different kind of mission. Rooster is much more than a pilot fighting his instincts, he's the frustrated son of Goose — who died when Maverick's jet spun out of control 30 years ago. Director Joseph Kosinski films Maverick's return to the flight school with all the majesty of a knight in shining armour mounting his steed. Militarily, Maverick's biggest challenge is getting the students ready for a seemingly impossible mission in three weeks. The country of this rogue state is never mentioned. At 59, Cruise has been one of the few constants in the ever-changing film business. He was the slippery sex guru of Magnolia. The bellowing studio exec of Tropic Thunder. Even director Stanley Kubrick found a complexity to Cruise's Ken doll charisma in the steamy Eyes Wide Shut. As Cruise pushes the experimental jet past Mach 10, hammering the dashboard with his patented "Come On!" a flinty-eyed rear admiral (Ed Harris) orders him to land.

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William and Kate join Tom Cruise on Top Gun red carpet (The New Daily)

Tom Cruise says he and Prince William "have a lot in common", as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined him at the London premiere of the new Top Gun.

“We have a lot in common. Prince William and Kate Middleton joined Cruise on Thursday night (local time) on a star-studded red carpet at Leicester Square for the premiere of Top Gun: Maverick. Tom Cruise has said he and Prince William “have a lot in common”, as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined the Hollywood star on the red carpet in London for British premiere of the new Top Gun movie.

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Tom Cruise's Spouses: Everything To Know About His 3 Marriages (Hollywood Life)

Find out everything you need to know about Tom Cruise's ex-wives: Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, and Katie Holmes.

Shortly after the split, there had been reports that Nicole had suffered a miscarriage at the end of their relationship, but she set the record straight in a 2007 interview with Marie Claire. She said that it was “wrongly reported,” and clarified, “I had an ectopic pregnancy at the beginning of [my marriage].” The couple got married that November. The wedding was an extravagant affair, with tons of high profile guests like Jada Pinkett-Smith, Jennifer Lopez, Jim Carrey, and many more, per USA Today. Tom’s best man was the head of the Church of Scientology David Miscavige, according to the BBC. In the years after the split, Nicole said the breakup was a “major shock” in a 2006 interview with Ladies Home Journal, per Today. “I knew I was going to get hit with something. The couple adopted two kids: a daughter Isabella, 29, and a son Connor, 27, in the 90s. We’d rent out a place and go racing at 3 in the morning,” she said. While the marriage was short-lived, Mimi did have a major impact on Tom, being the one who introduced him to Scientology, according to the book The Passion of Tom Cruise, via Radar. Her dad had been an original member of the church, via The Hollywood Reporter.

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Tom Cruise Helps Escort Duchess Kate at 'Top Gun: Maverick ... (Us Weekly)

Tom Cruise told the press that he and Prince William have 'a lot in common' while walking the red carpet — details.

“She is taking inspiration from the late Princess and wanted to pay homage to on the night of the No Time to Die premiere by channeling the dress Diana wore at the View To A Kill premiere.” The Top Gun: Maverick event is the second major red carpet moment that the duke and duchess have enjoyed after the loosening of COVID restrictions, following the No Time To Die premiere in October 2021. For that event, the mother of three wore a gold Jenny Packham gown with statement sleeves and a ruched bodice as an homage to the late Princess Diana. “Kate admired Diana’s taste in fashion before William came into her life. “Stylistically, it’s going to be the same.” “Particularly after the last couple of years, just to have an event like this is extraordinary.” “We’re going to have the same tone that we had from the first,” the Jerry Maguire star told Access Hollywood in June 2017.

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Kate Middleton helped up red carpet steps by Tom Cruise as she ... (The Independent)

On Thursday, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived at Leicester Square in London ahead of the film screening, with the duchess opting for an off-the- ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “We have a lot in common. On Thursday, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived at Leicester Square in London ahead of the film screening, with the duchess opting for an off-the-shoulder black and white gown by Roland Mouret for the occasion.

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Prince William, Kate join Tom Cruise for 'Top Gun' premiere (ABC News)

Tom Cruise has said he and Prince William “have a lot in common” as the Hollywood star and the royal met on the red carpet in London for the U.K. premiere ...

Speaking about William, Cruise told reporters: “We have a lot in common. LONDON -- Tom Cruise has said he and Prince William “have a lot in common” as Britain's royals joined the Hollywood star on the red carpet in London for the U.K. premiere of the new “Top Gun” movie. Tom Cruise has said he and Prince William “have a lot in common” as the Hollywood star and the royal met on the red carpet in London for the U.K. premiere of the new “Top Gun” movie

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Tom Cruise and 'former flame' Hayley Attwell 'grow close' following ... (Daily Mail)

Hayley's decision to attend the Top Gun: Maverick premiere in London on Thursday evening stems from the pair's newfound closeness following last year's ...

And we're going to need the right team. Tom said: 'For years, people had said, 'Can't you shoot [the movie] with CGI?' And I always said, 'No. That's not the experience.' I said, 'I need to find the right story. Tom underwent a full Aviation Survival Training Curriculum before going up in the US Navy F-18, as did his co-stars. Much has been made of Tom's insistence on real flying scenes, with no CGI work. They really got on well – but as the latest film winds down they've decided to go back to being friends. 'But they're still happy to work together.

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Nicole Kidman excluded from Tom Cruise's career montage at ... (Page Six)

Nicole Kidman wasn't included in ex-husband Tom Cruise's career montage video at the Cannes Film Festival 2022 despite co-starring in three movies with him.

After his three-year relationship with Cruz, he began dating Katie Holmes, 43, in 2005, and they were married from 2006 until 2012. The lovebirds, who will celebrate their 16th wedding anniversary on June 25, share daughters Sunday Rose, 13, and Faith Margaret, 11. The exes share daughter Suri, 16.

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The Loop: An Aussie world record, Tom Cruise honoured at Cannes ... (ABC News)

Hi there. It's Friday, May 20, and you're reading The Loop, a quick look at today's news. Let's start here: It's almost election day!

- A 21-year-old Russian soldier named Vadim Shishimarin hasasked a Ukrainian widow to forgive himfor killing her husband. Loading - Early voting has been open since May 9, and more people will be getting their votes in today or preparing to make theirs tomorrow.

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Nicole suffers public Tom Cruise snub (NEWS.com.au)

Nicole Kidman was reportedly snubbed from ex-husband Tom Cruise's career montage video at the Cannes Film Festival.

After his three-year relationship with Cruz, he began dating Katie Holmes, 43, in 2005, and they were married from 2006 until 2012. The lovebirds, who will celebrate their 16th wedding anniversary on June 25, share daughters Sunday Rose, 13, and Faith Margaret, 11. Stream more entertainment news live & on demand with Flash. 25+ news channels in 1 place.

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Kate Middleton and Tom Cruise Met Up on the Red Carpet (W Magazine)

Along with Prince Charles, the royal mingled with both Cruise and his costar Jennifer Connelly.

This isn’t the first time Middleton has hobnobbed with celebrities at a Hollywood premiere. It just so happened that this year’s Royal Film Performance charity event took the form of the Top Gun: Maverick U.K. premiere, meaning that she got to reunite with a friend she only gets to see occasionally: none other than Tom Cruise. (They’ve met at least twice before, at the 2020 Euro Championship and 2021 Wimbledon women’s final.) She and William memorably made a fully surprise appearance at the London screening of No Time to Die last fall, and thankfully, the moment she met Billie Eilish was captured on film.

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Photos of Kate Middleton, Prince William, Tom Cruise at the <em ... (PEOPLE.com)

Prince William and Kate Middleton got all dressed up to welcome the stars of Top Gun: Maverick to London's Leicester Square on May 19: see the photos.

In London on Thursday night, May 19, Prince William and Kate Middleton helped welcome Tom Cruise and his castmates to the U.K. premiere of Top Gun: Maverick in Leicester Square. Prince William and Kate Middleton got all dressed up to welcome the stars of Top Gun: Maverick to London's Leicester Square on May 19 Photos of Kate Middleton, Prince William, Tom Cruise at the Top Gun: Maverick Premiere in London

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Tom Cruise by the numbers: What makes him one of Hollywood's ... (The Sydney Morning Herald)

When Crocodile Dundee became a global hit in 1986, there was only one Hollywood movie that sold more tickets around the world.

It continued with Lions for Lambs, Valkyrie, Rock of Ages, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back and American Made all failing to crack $10 million in current dollars. While Cruise has long been an outspoken advocate of Scientology, it never seemed to affect his success. Unless you count narrating the 2002 IMAX documentary, Space Station 3D, Cruise has never starred in a movie directed by a woman. And he deserves much of the credit. Get The Watchlist delivered every Thursday. In Australia, $10 million is generally accepted as the benchmark for blockbuster success. Numero data shows his movies have taken more than $360 million in Australian cinemas. But it has to open strongly next week and keep selling tickets when Jurassic World Dominion, Lightyear, Elvis and Thor: Love and Thunder are released. You would expect Top Gun to be Cruise’s biggest hit. But playing a German colonel who attempted to assassinate Hitler in Valkyrie and a self-indulgent rock star in Rock of Ages resulted in two of his biggest flops in this country. Not only has he produced more than a dozen of his own movies, including all the Mission: Impossible and Jack Reacher instalments, he has taken on other projects when he’s had a relationship with the filmmaking team – producing Without Limits, Elizabethtown and Ask the Dust and executive producing The Others, Narc and Shattered Glass. With the long-delayed sequel Top Gun: Maverick about to open around the world, Cruise has been shooting the next two Mission: Impossible movies and plans to head into space in a partnership between Universal Pictures and Elon Musk’s SpaceX for a movie partly set on the International Space Station next year.

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Nicole Kidman's snub during Tom Cruise tribute has Scientology ... (The Mercury News)

Much of the drama leading to Kidman and Cruise's bitter 2001 divorce centers on their differing views on Scientology.

In the film, Rathbun further alleged that Cruise became concerned about who Kidman was talking to and asked Scientology leaders to tap her phone. “They are adults,” Kidman said in the interview with Australia’s Who magazine. “Tommy told them over and over again their mother was a sociopath and after a while they believed him,” Rathbun recalled, Wright reported. Since the divorce, Kidman has said little about her marriage to Cruise or their divorce. Miscavige blamed Kidman and viewed her as a “gold digger who was faking Scientology,” Wright said. The church also worked to turn Cruise’s children with Kidman against her. In his book and film, Lawrence Wright explained how Miscavige wanted to keep Cruise happy. At some point, she pulled away from Scientology and Cruise seemed to distance himself as well, Wright reported. Most notably, Kidman doesn’t make an appearance in any clips from “Eyes Wide Shut,” the Stanley Kubrick-directed erotic drama that was built around her and Cruise playing a couple in a troubled marriage. Those movie fans include Prince William and Kate Middleton, who welcomed Cruise to “Top Gun’s” glittering premiere in London Thursday. Both works also suggest that Cruise stood by as Scientology leaders oversaw Kidman’s phone being wiretapped and worked to turn their children, Isabella and Connor, against her. The many reports also allege that the organization had disturbing influence over his marriage to Kidman.

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Elle Fanning Reacts to Tom Cruise's Sweet Shout-Out at Cannes: I ... (PEOPLE.com)

Elle Fanning tells PEOPLE that she 'was freaking out' and 'sort of crying/blushing' while Tom Cruise praised her Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival.

"And he said he remembered. "And he sends her a birthday gift every single year still," Elle says. "[Elle's] going, 'I'm an actress,' and I said, 'I know you are," he said.

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Royals join Tom Cruise on the red carpet (Sky News Australia)

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have joined Hollywood royalty on the red carpet at the premiere of the latest Top Gun film. The pair attended the London ...

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Prince William, Kate join Tom Cruise for 'Top Gun' premiere (The Washington Post)

Tom Cruise has said he and Prince William “have a lot in common” as the Hollywood star and the royal met on the red carpet in London for the U.K. premiere ...

It was originally due for release in July 2019, but was repeatedly pushed back due to the coronavirus pandemic. Cruise was seen introducing William and Kate to the film’s cast members — including Jennifer Connelly and Jon Hamm — in front of a model of the fighter jet from the movie. Speaking about William, Cruise told reporters: “We have a lot in common.

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Kate holds hands with A-list actor (NEWS.com.au)

Kate Middleton looked stunning in an off-the-shoulder gown as she broke royal protocol to hold hands with one of the world's biggest stars.

I came to England, started making movies here in 1982, started producing here because I liked the crews. And movie star Cruise broke from usual protocol advising members of the public not to touch the royal family, offering Kate a helping hand as she walked the red carpet in her dress and heels. William and Kate arrived to cheers from onlookers and the flashes of cameras at the event in London’s Leicester Square on Thursday evening.

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Tom Cruise Receives Palm D'Or Award In Return To Cannes Film ... (Harper's BAZAAR)

Tom Cruise just received the Palm D'Or Award at Cannes, attending the iconic film festival for the first time since 1992.

During a speech, Cruise credited his Top Gun co-stars and the crew at Paramount for believing in the film’s “big screen” ability. Prior to the premiere, Cruise was awarded the prestigious Palme d’Or award — an accolade given to just 15 people before him. Cannes paid tribute to the 59-year-old with an elaborately organised affair.

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Top Gun Maverick premiere: Prince William and Duchess of ... (Sky News)

The royals head out in central London for the premiere of Top Gun: Maverick - as its star Tom Cruise waxes lyrical about his love for the UK and the Queen's ...

The actor told reporters he and the duke shared some key interests: "We have a lot in common. I love this country," he told Sky News. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have made a glamorous appearance alongside Tom Cruise at the UK premiere of the long-awaited Top Gun sequel.

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Tom Cruise Aims to Fly High at the Box Office With 'Top Gun: Maverick' (The New York Times)

At a time when superheroes dominate the box office, the film industry hopes the actor can bring grown-ups back to theaters.

“He is the guy that’s not trying to occupy the I.P. He’s trying to tell a compelling story that just ends up becoming the I.P. because it’s so good,” Mr. Powell said. Mr. Cruise is also the reason Mr. Powell is in the film. In the past decade, Mr. Cruise starred in original titles like “American Made,” “Oblivion,” and “Edge of Tomorrow”— all movies that played up his action bona fides. Glen Powell, one of Mr. Cruise’s co-stars in “Top Gun: Maverick,” cites him as one of the reasons he pursued acting. His reboot of “The Mummy,” which was supposed to jump start Universal Pictures’ monster movie series, was a disappointment for the studio, generating only $80 million in domestic receipts. Will Smith, in his 2021 memoir, affectionately called Mr. Cruise a “cyborg” when it came to his endurance on the promotional circuit. “It’s Batman. It’s Spiderman. It’s very different,” he said in an interview from Cannes. “And it’s not just because a lot of these characters are hidden by a mask and tights and a cape. “‘Top Gun’ is certainly going to bring out the audience of 40 and over and momentum builds momentum.” A big box office showing for “Top Gun: Maverick,” would depend in no small part on the over-40 crowd. Instead, his promotional tour for “Top Gun: Maverick,” which opens on May 27, will last close to three weeks and extend from Mexico City to Japan with a stop in Cannes for the annual film festival. The actor still commands first dollar gross, which means that in addition to a significant upfront fee, he receives a percentage of the box office gross from the moment the film hits theaters. Gesturing to the spectacle around him, including the crowd of fans and media members, Mr. Cruise said: “This moment right here, to see everybody at this time, no masks.

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Mission impossible? My red-carpet quest to thank Tom Cruise for his ... (The Guardian)

Last Christmas, Tom Cruise sent me two cakes. This week, I went to the Top Gun: Maverick premiere to repay him. Here is my story.

Tom Cruise did a nice thing for me, so I still maintain that I need to do a nice thing back. The closest I got to him, in fact, was when the film began. Plus, Thursday was one of the hottest days of the year. Top Gun: Maverick is a huge film for Tom Cruise. It’s a sequel, 36 years in the making, to one of his most iconic hits. What if I attended the event, with an elaborate cake that I had baked myself, and presented it to Tom Cruise? The place was crowded beyond all comprehension, both with screaming Tom Cruise fans and tourists irritated that they had to go the long way round to Burger King. And, at least in the eyes of my employers, the premiere presented the perfect opportunity to redress the balance.

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William and Kate join Tom Cruise on 'Top Gun: Maverick' red carpet (CNN)

British royalty and Hollywood royalty came together on the red carpet for the charity premiere of the new Tom Cruise movie, "Top Gun: Maverick," on Thursday ...

Cruise is back in the air 36 years after the original "Top Gun" movie was released in 1986. "(Prince William and I) have a lot in common. Kate shone in a timeless Roland Mouret crepe column gown.

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Who is Tom Cruise dating 2022? Is Top Gun: Maverick actor married ... (NationalWorld)

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The actor explained to the reporters present: "We have a lot in common. Cruise, who has been married three times before, was rumoured to be dating his Top Gun co-star. I love this country.” It took me a very long time to heal. At least for that period of time, it looked as though marriage wouldn’t fit into his overall spiritual need.” Actor Tom Cruise attended the premiere to Top Gun: Maverick with the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cambridge.

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Tom Cruise helps Kate Middleton up the stairs at 'Top Gun' premiere (Page Six)

Tom Cruise was snapped at the London premiere of "Top Gun: Maverick" helping Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, up a set of stairs at Leicester Square.

I think there are a lot of things that are perceived as royal etiquette or royal protocol that we assume might be the case but aren’t actually.” The screening marks the 72nd Royal Film Performance put on by the charity in its nearly 100-year history, People reports. “Tom is so lovely.

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8 Tom Cruise Stunts That Gave Everybody Anxiety (Collider.com)

Watching Cruise is always a blast, but sometimes his stunt work has to be viewed from behind our hands.

The Halo jump – which is a high altitude, low opening jump – is extremely exhilarating and perilous, and this is not lost on viewers. This is tension done well as various hurdles are thrown at Ethan such as beads of sweat, a pesky rat, and Krieger’s (Jean Reno) butterfingers which cause Ethan to drop mere centimeters from the floor. His dedication to his work is commendable, particularly down to the fact that he underwent flight training and received his pilot certificate so that he could hit this milestone. Ethan - and effectively Cruise - is suspended out of the overhead vent and has to avoid setting off any alarms in place; even the tiniest unprovoked action puts the whole at risk. Although, during filming for the sixth Mission Impossible installment, it became well documented that Cruise had sustained a broken ankle while jumping from building to building – caught on camera and all. Cruise’s active role in the stunt work just adds to its authenticity. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation is neither the time nor place for the star to kick his feet up and relax because yes, that is genuinely him clinging on to the side of a plane as it genuinely takes off. In order to evade security and hack a server, the team opt to have Ethan clamber his way up a building. Cruise takes stunt work to the extreme. Nerves are at an all-time high for audiences seeing the sequence for the first time; despite knowing that Cruise is harnessed in, and safety procedures were (presumably) triple checked, Rogue Nation still manages to hold our hearts in our throats. Tom Cruise is the action man of the century. In a featurette about the film, the leading man admitted that he lost sleep prior to performing the stunt, which we can’t really blame him for.

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Tom Cruise and Prince William Actually Do Have “A Lot In Common” (Vanity Fair)

It turns out that Cruise has built a bond with William because the actor loves England and is reportedly a big fan of the royals.

At the time, The Sun reported that they were joined by Princess Eugenie, Princess Beatrice, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, at the private screening. “Apparently, it was met with royal approval—not least because William has been a military pilot himself so it’s pretty close to his heart.” “We have a lot in common,” said Cruise. “We both love England and we’re both aviators, we both love flying.” William trained in the armed forces as a helicopter pilot, and Cruise, who plays an ace pilot in the films, did actually get his pilot’s license in 1994. “We actually had Tom Cruise get in touch yesterday evening,” Kane told BBC Radio. “You get everyone who loves football.” According to Express, a fan caught Kate, William, and Prince George beaming at Cruise from a distance and the final match in London’s Wembley Stadium. Another clue to Cruise’s love of England came last summer during the Euro Cup soccer tournament. At the premiere, Tom Cruise made a few statements that prove exactly how close he and William really are.

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Tom Cruise's 10 Best Movies Ranked (Empire)

From Mission: Impossible to Minority Report and Magnolia, Empire presents the top 10 greatest Tom Cruise movies.

It's one hell of an ensemble cast, but Cruise drives it all, capturing Kaffee's increasing desperation and dedication to win the case – and prove that, yes, he can handle the truth – becoming a better person in the pursuit of justice. It makes for the kind of movie you'd happily be stuck watching in a time-loop over and over and over and ov- You get the picture. It's up to him and fellow lawyers JoAnne Galloway ( Demi Moore) and Sam Weinberg ( Kevin Pollak) to prove what really happened in a court of law, facing up to Jack Nicholson's fearsome Colonel Jessop in the process. A sequel 36 years in the making, besieged by pandemic-induced release date delays, with a brand new writer and director on board, and the follow-up to one of the most beloved action movies of a generation? With each passing entry, the saga became a stunt-filled action masterclass in which its leading man goes to greater and greater lengths to bring visceral thrills to the masses – and no Mission film exemplifies that better than Fallout. It's stacked with jaw-dropping setpieces that go out of their way to foreground the fact that its leading man really is doing a HALO jump in a single take, or flying a helicopter through a gorge, or leaping across the rooftops of London (and, yes, breaking his foot in the process). It makes for breathlessly exciting cinema, a kind of spectacle that subsequently feels lacking in almost every other show in town. Cruise is John Anderton, an officer in the Pre-Crime unit of 2054, which uses the visions of three psychic siblings (the 'precogs') to proudly reduce the murder rate in Washington DC to zero. This meeting of legendary cinematic minds produced something darker and more dystopian than you might expect, but Cruise is on impeccable screen-swiping form as an action hero, a care-taker for precog Agatha ( Samantha Morton), and a man whose entire world-view is shattering around him, desperate to clear his name. That's the knotty question at the heart of Minority Report, which saw Cruise team up with the one and only Steven Spielberg for a gritty, noirish thriller with a lot on its mind. And at the centre of it all is Cruise's Ethan Hunt, perpetually on the backfoot, barely surviving near-impossible predicaments by the skin of his teeth. He’s also had a fascinating career – one that began with a series of roles that dialled into his charisma and confidence as an upstart, before moving into more nuanced character dramas, and then into blockbuster spectacle. When Brian De Palma first brought '60s spy series Mission: Impossible to the big screen in the mid-'90s (with Cruise producing as well as starring), it wasn't yet an action juggernaut – the height of spectacle here is an exploding fish tank, or the helicopter-in-a-train-tunnel chase (which perhaps began Cruise's fondness for clinging to speeding vehicles). But the DNA of the ultimate Tom Cruise franchise all comes from this first entry. Even back in '96, the Mission movies were all about breathless setpieces – though at that point, they were more about beads of sweat pooling on Hunt's forehead while he dangles in a temperature-controlled computer vault, than strapping himself to an aeroplane while it takes off.

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