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Tom Cruise Thanks Fans for Support While Jumping Out of a Plane on ‘Mission Impossible’ Set — Watch

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Few Hollywood figures have had a better 2022 than Tom Cruise .

“Top Gun: Maverick” was as big of a success as you can possibly get, earning rave reviews while dominating the box office for months and proving there is still an audience for Cruise’s brand of high quality blockbuster filmmaking. The film had the kind of staying power that most blockbusters can only dream of. Paramount even re-released the film in theaters for a two-week run earlier this month. The film begins streaming on Paramount+ on Thursday, December 22.

Naturally, Cruise wanted to thank his fans for the success of the film but the daredevil actor doesn’t do anything the conventional way. Football fans were reminded of that during a commercial that aired during CBS’ Sunday NFL coverage. In a video taped from the set of the upcoming “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning” films, Cruise thanked his fans for his remarkable year.

“Hey everyone,” Cruise said from the plane. “Here we are over stunning South Africa, where we’re filming ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning’ parts one and two. And I didn’t want the year to end without thanking you all for coming out to the theaters and thank you for supporting ‘Top Gun: Maverick.’”

He was promptly interrupted by “Dead Reckoning” director (and “Top Gun: Maverick” screenwriter) Christopher McQuarrie , who playfully told him to keep his remarks brief so they could get the shot of Cruise jumping out of a plane. Cruise happily obliged and jumped into the sky — but he wasn’t done talking.

“Where was I?” he asked while free falling. “Oh yeah. Thank you for supporting ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and thank you for allowing us to entertain you. It truly is the honor of a lifetime.”

As he got closer to the ground, Cruise understandably needed to cut the announcement short, but not before he wished his fans a happy holiday season.

“I’m running out of altitude, so I have to get back to work. We have to get this shot. You have a very safe and happy holiday, we’ll see you at the movies.”

Watch the video below.

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These 60 Facts About Tom Cruise Will Tell You Everything You Need to Know

Otherwise ageless movie star tom cruise is celebrating his 60th birthday and here's a guide to the man behind the myth..

Tom Cruise , he of the ageless face, body and energy level, is celebrating a birthday July 3.

Contrary to what's visible to the naked eye, the actor is turning 60.

He has the appropriate amount of work under what must be a utility belt to back that up, including his first-ever billion-dollar box office haul with Top Gun: Maverick . But it's Cruise's sheer zest for entertaining audiences that continues to awe and delight.

And his viral lecture in December 2020, when COVID-19 pandemic protocol wasn't taken as seriously as he demanded on the set of Mission: Impossible 7 , proved that the world's biggest movie star isn't afraid to throw his hard-earned Hollywood weight around, either.

"I said what I said," he told Empire in an interview published in May 2021. "There was a lot at stake at that point."

Alas, production was suspended anyway in June 2021 after a positive COVID test, but after all sorts of pandemic-induced delays, Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One is finally slated for July 14, 2023, with Part Two to follow on June 28, 2024.

"I have an aggressive side, absolutely," Cruise told Cameron Crowe 36 years ago for Interview magazine . "I need a creative outlet. Now I work out every day. I get up and work out 45 to 60 minutes. And that's how I start my day. Discipline is very important to me."

When Brad Pitt , who's only 58, told GQ Australia a few years ago that he thinks making movies (or at least being in them) is "a younger man's game," you could practically hear Cruise's inimitable laugh.

So, with our need for speed recently fulfilled, in honor of his milestone birthday here are 60 things to know about Tom Cruise:

1. Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born on July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, N.Y., to Thomas Cruise Mapother III , an electrical engineer, and Mary Lee Pfeiffer , both of Louisville, Ky. (His grandfather and great-grandfather were both Thomas Cruise Mapother, as well.)

2. He has two older sisters, Lee Anne and Marian , and one younger sister, Catherine , nicknamed Cass.

3. Cruise wanted to act from around the time he was 4 and started doing impressions of everyone from Donald Duck to Humphrey Bogart and Elvis Presley .

4. In 1974, when the family was living in Ottawa, Mary Lee packed up and took the kids back to Louisville. She officially divorced Tom III in August 1975 and, six weeks later, he remarried, briefly. Joan Lebendiger , recently widowed, had four kids, one of whom later told biographer Andrew Morton that they never saw their stepbrother Tom again after the wedding.

"As a kid, I had a lot of hidden anger about that. I'd get hit, and I didn't understand it," Cruise recalled to Vanity Fair in 1994.

"He was the kind of guy who really got picked on a lot at school himself when he was growing up," he said of his father. "He had also been small, though he ended up being six foot two. People had been quite brutal to him. Inside, I believe he was a really sensitive individual." Tom III could also "actually be quite loving."

But in 2006 he told Parade that his dad was "a bully and a coward—the person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you. It was a great lesson in my life, how he'd lull you in, make you feel safe and then, bang!"

Cruise visited his father in the hospital before he died of cancer in 1984 and Tom III said he'd get better and they would "'talk about the whole thing,'" the actor told VF , but that never came to pass.

5. Tom was very close to his mother, whom he described to James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio as "a very warm, charismatic woman, very kind, very generous." She worked four jobs at any given time to take care of them, and Tom had a paper route to pitch in. "Every night I'd come home, bathe my feet and sit in the family room, and Tom would massage my feet for a half-hour," Mary Lee recalled to Rolling Stone . (She died at 80 in 2017.)

6. He was also protective of his sisters and, as the man of the house, took on the role of scrutinizing their boyfriends when they'd come by to meet the family.

7. Cruise was raised Catholic and he spent his freshman year of high school at St. Francis Seminary in Cincinnati, after a priest named Father Ric Schneider gave a talk at his (also Catholic) school in Louisville. "He was a typical teenager, trying to find his way in life," Schneider told the New York Daily News in 2013. "We would give them an IQ test, and he just about made the cut. The cutoff is 110, and he scored exactly 110."

It's been rumored that Cruise considered entering the priesthood, but he doesn't it remember it that way. "We didn't have the money back then, and I went for the education for a year, and it was free," Cruise has explained.

8. Mary Lee got remarried to Jack South in 1978 and the whole family moved to New Jersey when Tom was 16.

"In the beginning, I felt threatened by my stepfather," Cruise told Rolling Stone . "There's a part of you that's in love with your mother. But he is such a wise, smart man. He loved my mother so much that he took us all in, four young people. We'd bet on football games, and he was a terrible bettor, so I'd make lots of money."

As for his dad, Tom III, who had recently passed away, "I think that he felt remorse for a lot that had happened. He was a person who did not have a huge influence on me in my teens; the values and motivation really came from my stepfather. But he was important. Really important. It's all sort of complex. There wasn't one thing I felt."

9. He was always a daredevil, jumping off things, riding his bike too fast, sometimes into walls and, here and there, breaking bones. In high school he joined the glee club and did plays. He was also an athlete, over the years dabbling in soccer, baseball, basketball, football and ice hockey, and he wrestled. Sports and acting were where he really stood out and, shocker, the ladies have loved him since grammar school.

"I was a wild kid," Cruise admitted. "I'd cut school. Everything had to do with my wanting always to push the envelope to see: where do I stand with myself? How far can I go?"

10. Cruise has been open about his battle with dyslexia, calling himself "a functional illiterate" in school, though he "loved learning. I wanted to learn, but I knew I had failed in the system."

"My energy was always all over the place. Reading was not at the top of my list, because it took me so long," he told Cameron Crowe for Interview in 1986. "When I wrote a paper, my mother would help me with it. I would take a test and get very nervous. I would skip questions and skip lines. I've gotten better. I've learned to control my eyes. I used to have to use my finger all the time. I just wasn't relaxed about it."

11. Senior year of high school he got kicked off the football team after he was caught drinking, according to Morton, but that left him time to audition for the school musical, Guys and Dolls . He played Nathan Detroit, and a commercial director who happened to catch a performance told him he should pursue acting professionally. So, he started going to New York on weekends to audition for musicals—and he missed his graduation ceremony while performing in an amateur production of Godspell .

12. Cruise made his movie debut in the 1981 drama Taps , in a role that was bigger than the one he was originally cast in "because you could see right away that he had a giant talent," former Paramount head Sherry Lansing said in Stephen Galloway 's 2017 biography Leading Lady . "He was always extremely focused and exceptionally polite."

13. On the set of Francis Ford Coppola 's The Outsiders , featuring a veritable who's-who of '80s-era heartthrobs , prankster Cruise scrawled "Helter Skelter" on co-star Diane Lane 's mirror and put honey on her toilet seat.

14. The only direction Cruise received for his iconic Risky Business dance to "Old Time Rock and Roll" was one line in the script: "Joel dances in underwear through the house." He ad-libbed the rest, grabbing the candlestick, "using it as a guitar, jumping on the table. I waxed half the floor and kept the other half dirty, so I could slide in on my socks. As we went along, I threw more stuff in," he shared with Crowe in 1986.

15. Cruise dated his Risky Business co-star Rebecca De Mornay , who called him a "pure person." She told Rolling Stone in 1986, "There's something earnest and virtuous about him that's quite rare." According to Taps co-star Sean Penn , they were out at a club in New York one night and after realizing that a girl he was talking to was trying to pick him up, Cruise "screamed at her, 'I have a girlfriend I'm in love with!'" (Perhaps at the time readers thought Penn might be exaggerating.) He and De Mornay started dating in the summer of 1983 and maintained a long-distance relationship while he shot Ridley Scott 's Legend in London, but broke up when he returned to the U.S. to start making Top Gun .

16. Top Gun producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson envisioned no one other than Cruise playing Maverick after they saw a magazine story about the elite flying school at San Diego's Miramar Naval Air Station and went down to see the hot shots in person. "From the first time we went down to Miramar—even before the script was written—we said, 'These guys are Tom Cruises,'" Bruckheimer told Rolling Stone .

17. Although Cruise also told Rolling Stone in 1986 that he wasn't sure he would be able to get married in his "present state of mind," he tied the knot with Mimi Rogers on May 9, 1987, two years after meeting her at a dinner party. Emilio Estevez was Cruise's best man.

18. Paul Newman , his co-star in 1987's The Color of Money , turned him on to race car driving and Cruise has been feeling the need for speed on land and in the air (and sometimes on the water) ever since. Years later the student became the teacher when, in 2010, Cruise taught Zac Efron about motorcycles. "I don't know," Efron told Details when asked why Cruise offered to do that. "I don't even want to know. It's just so cool that he gave a s--t, the fact that he cared at all."

19. Mimi and her first husband, Jim Rogers , were both members of the Church of Scientology (Jim was a high-level auditor) and she's said to have introduced Cruise to the organization, giving him L. Ron Hubbard 's Dianetics and other literature. His immersion in Scientology coincided with the release of Top Gun and the actor becoming one of the biggest stars in the world, and to this day Cruise remains the most famous member of the church.

20. Despite being critically panned, 1988's Cocktail , starring Cruise as a playboy bartender, gave Disney its biggest opening weekend ever at the time: $11.8 million.

21. According to Morton's 2008 biography Tom Cruise , director Oliver Stone wanted Tom to be injected with a chemical that would have rendered him temporarily paralyzed so he could better identify with the role of real-life Vietnam War veteran and activist Ron Kovic in 1989's Born on the Fourth of July . The insurance company understandably shut that idea down. The film still won two Oscars, best editing and best director for Stone, so it worked out.

22. People named Cruise its "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1990. Soon after, he and Rogers divorced. When Vanity Fair asked about his first marriage in 1994, Cruise replied tersely , "It was a long time ago. I really don't think about it."

23. Cruise met Nicole Kidman during casting for the racing drama Days of Thunder and they tied the knot on Dec. 24, 1990. They adopted two children, Isabella and Connor , and starred in two more movies together, Far and Away and Eyes Wide Shut .

After Isabella arrived, Cruise told Vanity Fair in 1994 , "We talked about children from time to time, but there was always the work. But then we went, When is it ever going to be the right time? That's how the conversation started. You're lying in bed at night and you're trying to sleep, so you roll over and you go, What would happen if we had this in our life?

"One of the things that Nic and I talk about is that now suddenly we're a family. We're at that point where we're trying to define where we are. Can we still party? Are we really boring? Oh, my God . . . we're old!"

24. Disney had Cruise in mind when they created the look of the title character in 1992's Aladdin . "There's a confidence with all of his attitudes and his poses," lead animator Glen Keane said in a DVD extras feature.

25. An old tabloid go-to back in the 1980s and '90s was to claim that this or that star was gay, and Cruise was aware that the rumor was out there.

"First of all, I don't think it's an indictment," Cruise told Vanity Fair in 1994. "But I hadn't heard those rumors till about three months ago myself… I don't know why they say it. I've heard everything from I've cheated on my wife to my wife was there on the set of The Firm because she was pissed off about my love scene on the beach. It's not true, but people are going to say what they want to say."

26. Cruise wanted Brian De Palma to direct Mission: Impossible , which would mark his debut as a producer with his agent turned partner Paula Wagner , even though De Palma was in movie jail following several flops. Cruise even deferred his $20 million salary (not including his back-end deal) so they could raise the movie's budget. Mission accomplished: M:I made almost $500 million worldwide and spawned a franchise . De Palma, however, didn't attend the film's premiere in May 1996, reportedly because he and Cruise didn't always see eye to eye during production.

27. Shooting M:I , Cruise insisted they use a fan big enough to create the 120 mile-per-hour wind he'd be facing if he was really clinging to a bullet train while a helicopter exploded behind him. A crew member told Galloway, "He said, 'I want the wind blowing in my face and I want my jaws to be blowing.' That's Tom. He's a guy's guy."

28. The intense Eyes Wide Shut shoot was scheduled to last four months but ended up keeping Tom and Nicole in London for 18 months. Also during their time in England, as fate would have it, they attended Princess Diana 's funeral in September 1997, as did with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg , who were in town making Saving Private Ryan .

29. "All I can say is that I hope we are together when we are 80," Nicole Kidman told Talk in 2000. "I can't say we will be, but I will be so devastated if we are not." Alas, they announced their separation on Feb. 5, 2001. "She knows why, and I know why," Cruise cryptically told Vanity Fair later that year. "She's the mother of my children, and I wish her well. And I think that you just move on. And I don't say that lightly. I don't say that with anything."

30. Penélope Cruz successfully sued an Australian tabloid in June 2003, winning damages and a retraction over a story claiming she and then-boyfriend Cruise had postponed their impending marriage because she had cheated on him. They broke up in January 2004 after more than two years of dating, a source telling People the relationship "just ran its course."

31. The Church of Scientology denied a 2012 Vanity Fair report that Homeland actress Nazanin Boniadi , then a church member, had basically been recruited to date Cruise for a few months, starting in October 2004 with a group outing that included renting the skating rink at Rockefeller Center and dinner at Nobu. "I'd rather not talk about that," Boniadi told the New York Post in 2013.

32. Cruise specifically held out for J.J. Abrams to direct Mission: Impossible III —Abrams' feature film debut—after watching some episodes of Alias . Paramount was freaking out, wanting M:I3 for a summer 2005 tentpole release, which wasn't going to happen if Cruise and Abrams—busy at the moment with a show called Lost —got their way, but it turned out Cruise had an ace up his sleeve. Spielberg was ready to roll with War of the Worlds in time to give Paramount the summer blockbuster it needed while they waited for Abrams to become available.

33. On May 23, 2005, a giddy Cruise raised his arms in victory, got down on one knee and did a couple of fist pumps, and then jumped up on Oprah Winfrey 's couch (also twice), fueled by love for his new girlfriend, Katie Holmes . "You're gone," the talk show host observed.

"I've got so much energy, I can't help it," Cruise said.

They were both laughing hysterically and the studio audience was cheering, but… maybe you had to be there?

Lest anyone forget, Holmes was at the taping and Winfrey led a chant for her to come out. "She's gonna run!" Cruise exclaimed. "She is freaking out ." Then he took off for backstage to go get her, the camera trailing him, and once they had emerged Cruise enveloped the Dawson's Creek star in a hug.

That moment unwittingly set the tone for Cruise and Holmes' entire relationship, romantic to many but to everyone… just a lot .

34. A month later, Cruise accused Matt Lauer of being "glib" when the Today host questioned his take on mental health care—specifically, his dismissal of psychiatry and his criticism of Brooke Shields ' "irresponsible" use of medication to treat postpartum depression.

35. Cruise and Holmes' daughter, Suri Cruise , was born on April 18, 2006.

36. Mission: Impossible III came out on May 5, 2006, and did… fine. It was (and remains) the lowest-grossing installment of the franchise, making $134 million domestically, but more memorably it marked the moment where folks started wondering if Cruise had lost his movie-star mojo, if his unadulterated zeal had turned off audiences for good. Not making it better: Paramount severed its 14-year relationship with Cruise's production company that August, and then-Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone actually told the Wall Street Journal , "We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot. His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."

37. Suri was introduced to the world on the September 2006 cover of Vanity Fair , zipped up in her father's leather jacket akin to how Paul McCartney snuggled daughter Mary on the cover of his 1970 solo album McCartney . The first glimpse at the cover was a huge get for Katie Couric 's first night as lead anchor of the CBS Evening News .

38. Cruise and Holmes' wedding at the 15th-century Castello Orsini-Odescalchi in Rome on Nov. 18, 2016, reportedly cost upward of $3 million . Guest Giorgio Armani designed the bride's ceremony and reception dresses and attendees included Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith , John Travolta and Kelly Preston , David and Victoria Beckham , Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy , Leah Remini and Angelo Pagan , and Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony . Andrea Bocelli performed.

39. Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige was Cruise's best man. According to Remini, who left the church in 2013, a traditional Scientology wedding ceremony includes the vow "to never close their eyes in sleep on a disagreement or an upset."

40. Shields and husband Chris Henchy were also in attendance, Cruise having apologized for publicly disparaging his Endless Love co-star's use of medication to treat postpartum depression. "If you get invited to that wedding, you go," Shields recalled on The Jenny McCarthy Show in 2016. The actress even provided the bride's "something old": an antique enamel compact.

41. 2010's Knight and Day with Cameron Diaz was widely treated as some sort of "comeback" movie for Cruise, a test to see if he could still have a monster action movie hit after Mission: Impossible III underwhelmed.

"I don't understand why people think that," he marveled to the U.K.'s Telegraph . "I've been working the whole time."

42. His roles in the interim had included his unrecognizable—and hilarious—surprise turn as crass, bullying, bald and fat studio exec Les Grossman in Ben Stiller 's Tropic Thunder , for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination.

"I had about a dozen people making the silicone prosthetics for his head, neck, chest, and hands," makeup designer Barney Burman recalled to Grantland . "We made him special gloves. I did the sculpting, someone else did the molds, someone else was casting them. I had six different people punching hairs into the scalp piece, so his entire head was one-at-a-time, hand-punched hairs; his arms were hand-punched one at a time; his chest was hand-punched."

Added Aida Caefer , "I made the fat suits for Tom Cruise. He was all for the more ridiculous, the better . The suit went from his neck all the way down to his ankles…The character moved around a lot and he was so soaked in sweat that we had rotating suits for him—one in the morning and one after lunch."

"Tom choreographed all his own moves," Stiller said. "I remember watching him do this stuff and thinking this is so frigging funny."

43. The rumor that Cruise turned down the role of Iron Man, which would have changed the whole vibe of the Marvel Universe, is not true, he says. "Not close," he told ComicBook.com in 2018 when asked if he was really almost Tony Stark. "Not close, and I love Robert Downey Jr. I can't imagine anyone else in that role, and I think it's perfect for him."

44. For 2011's Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol , Cruise hung off the edge of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai—the world's tallest building—without a double (though with the appropriate wires). And while he'd been doing as much of his own physical laboring as possible for decades, this reinvigorated Cruise's reputation as the guy who does all the death-defying stunts the insurance companies will allow. The film's $695 million worldwide box office also signaled that Cruise's reputation had preceded him—in a good way.

45. Holmes filed for divorce in June 2012. Her father, attorney Martin Holmes , had helped draft their prenuptial agreement and all was remarkably settled within weeks. And neither of them have ever talked about what happened . They've acknowledged that they were once married to each other, but why it ended has remained anyone's guess. And, oh, how the people have guessed.

46. Eyebrows were raised when the 5-foot-7 Cruise was tapped to play 6-foot-5 vigilante Jack Reacher from Lee Childs ' best-selling novel series.

"Size in my books is a metaphor for an unstoppable force," Childs explained. "Cruise portrays that in his own way."

47. Not as initially OK with the creative license was Interview With the Vampire author Ann Rice , who according to Vanity Fair was livid in the early '90s when Cruise was cast to play Lestat, having written the character with Rutger Hauer in mind.

"It always helps if one is controversial in casting a movie," director Neil Jordan said. "I just thought that if Tom was willing to go the distance this character demands—and he was—then we could end up with something quite extraordinary, and we did."

48. Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation was legendary before it hit theaters in 2015 for Cruise's viral airplane stunt, in which he hung onto the door of an Airbus A400M as it took off. For real. He also did his own motorcycle chase and learned how to hold his breath for six and a half minutes for the underwater document swap.

49. He was back on the bike for Mission: Impossible—Fallout and "when the [safety] rigs didn't work, we just went for it," director Christopher McQuarrie told the New York Times . "Everything that you're seeing Tom doing, he's doing free riding on cold cobblestones. Sometimes there was rain; sometimes there was morning dew. There was always a danger of skidding and wiping out."

Cruise also did his own skydiving along with Henry Cavill 's stunt double, dangled from a rope attached to a flying helicopter, and piloted a helicopter for a mid-air chase scene, getting his certification in six weeks. It normally takes three months, McQuarrie said, but Cruise trained for 16 hours a day to cut the time in half.

"Tom was having the time of his life," the director said.

50. Cruise has social media accounts but they are strictly for un-risky business, and he prefers to not know everything that's happening online. "Sometimes I have to for work, but I keep it very limited," he told E! News in 2016. "I don't spend time doing that kind of stuff."

51. Cruise isn't one to let himself go in between physically taxing roles. "Sea-kayaking, caving, fencing, treadmill, weights, rock-climbing, hiking… I jog… I do so many different activities," he has said.

In fact, he refers to his personal workout space—a version of which he takes with him everywhere—as the "Pain Cave."

"Only the motivated can enter," he explained to the AP at the 2017 premiere of The Mummy . "All you got to do is just be motivated. Anyone can come in, we have the crew come in, and we just make it available to everyone."

As co-star Jake Johnson revealed: "You start every morning with the daily challenge. So before work starts, you're in there. His hair and makeup team is in there, his crew is in there, so there's about 15, 20 people every day doing their squats and jumping jacks. And then I kinda got into it with him…I wanted to be in a Tom Cruise movie and do it the Tom Cruise way."

That includes, alas, avoiding sugar.

"I love sugar," Cruise assured James Corden on The Late Late Show in 2018, "but I can't eat it because when I'm training, I'm doing all these movies—so I send it to everyone." And then, "I wait for the calls. Like, 'tell me about it.'"

52. Don't tell anyone, but Cruise is human: Aside from what he did to himself running around in childhood, he threw out his back making Legend ; developed an ulcer while shooting Eyes Wide Shut ; tore his labrum scaling a cliff at Dead Horse Point, Utah, for Mission: Impossible 2 ; and broke an ankle on Mission: Impossible—Fallout .

"It was the easy one where I'm running and I jump from one building to the next," Cruise later described the fateful stunt on The Tonight Show .

53. But this guy commits . In addition to doing three months of helicopter pilot training in six weeks and learning how to hold his breath like he's David Blaine , he played pool for 12 hours a day to play Fast Eddie Felson's protegee in The Color of Money. He lost 18 pounds and read classic books out loud to work on his diction to play centuries-old Lestat in Interview With the Vampire. He learned German to better embody a World War II-era officer in Valkyrie . He actually spent a year and a half learning how to fly a helicopter for Mission: Impossible—Fallout (before his whirlwind certification).

54. "I haven't seen him in awhile, but he has sent me a birthday gift every year since I was 11 years old," Dakota Fanning said on Watch What Happens Live in 2016 about her dad in 2005's War of the Worlds . "Beautiful gifts, it's really kind. I always think, 'Oh, when I'm 18, he'll probably stop. Oh, 21, he'll stop. But every year."

What does Team Cruise pick out? "It's usually shoes," the actress, then 22, shared.

55. In 1986, he told Cameron Crowe , "Let's face it, I'm not saving lives here. I feel fortunate, but this is just one aspect of my life. I love my work, but my family is very important to me, too. You pick up the paper and see that there are many things happening outside my little world."

Since then, the real-life heroics include, all within a few years in the '90s: He lifted two boys over a barricade to prevent them being crushed at the Mission: Impossible premiere in London; he sent his own yacht's skiff to rescue a family whose sailboat was on fire in the Mediterranean in 1996; he rushed to the aid of a woman who had been mugged in London; and he paid the $7,000 emergency room bill for an uninsured cashier who was injured in a hit and run—an accident Cruise witnessed.

"It's just an impulse," Cruise told People in 2000 about his spate of good deeds. "I was never a Boy Scout, so maybe I'm making up for it now."

Or, as he said in the video of an interview for his church that went viral in 2008, "You can't drive past an accident, because as a Scientologist you are the only one who can help"

56. Though he's the most famous face of Scientology, Cruise is incredibly protective of his beliefs and doesn't say too much about it publicly. But in October 2016, he told ITV at the London premiere of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back , "It's something that has helped me incredibly in my life. I've been a Scientologist for over 30 years. It's something that is, you know...without it, I wouldn't be where I am. So, it's a beautiful religion. I'm incredibly proud."

57. Cruise has been nominated for three Oscars: Best Supporting Actor for Magnolia and Best Actor for Jerry Maguire and Born on the Fourth of July . He has seven Golden Globe nominations and three wins, for those three films.

58. He returned all three Globes in 2021 as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association came under fire for its lack of diversity in its ranks.

59. Cruise's movies have collectively grossed more than $11 billion at the box office worldwide, though Top Gun: Maverick is his first film to cross the billion-dollar threshold on its own.

Prior to the release of the 36-years-in-the-making, pandemic-delayed sequel, his highest-grossing movie worldwide was Mission: Impossible—Fallout , with $791 million. Domestically, his biggest film was War of the Worlds with $234 million—though adjusted for inflation, it was the original Top Gun ($180 million in 1986 vs. $444 million in 2022). Top Gun: Maverick has made $534 million in the U.S.

60. Of course those are real F-18s and the actors are really flying in Top Gun: Maverick . "It is aggressive. You can't act that, the distortion in the face," Cruise explained in a making-of featurette . "They're pulling 7 1/2, 8 G's. That's 1,600 pounds of force."

As he recalled to Empire , he told the studio before they got started, "'You don't know how hard this movie's going to be. No-one's ever done this before.'" But he was firm about not wanting to do any "CGI stuff."

And in the end, Cruise said, "There's never been an aerial sequence shot this way. I don't know if there ever will be again, to be honest."

61. When Tom Cruise wants to tell you he appreciates you, he sends dessert. The White Chocolate Coconut Bundt Cake from Doan's Bakery in Woodland Hills, Calif., has become the stuff of holiday-gift-giving legend, sent to the likes of Tom Hanks , Rosie O'Donnell and, more recently, Top Gun: Maverick co-stars Miles Teller and Jon Hamm .

When December comes around, the staff at Hanks' production company Playtone "start eyeing what mail has come in," Hanks shared on the Mythical Kitchen YouTube series Last Meals . "Is the big box coming in? Are we getting what has essentially been called 'the Tom Cruise cake?'"

Asked about the criticism that he hadn't really played any grown-ups yet, Cruise told Cameron Crowe for Interview in 1986, "God forbid if I do everything I want to do before I'm 26. When I get to [ Paul ] Newman 's age, I'm looking to still be playing the great characters he plays.

"I hope the public and everyone realize that I'm still growing. I'm still feeling my oats here. I'm working toward the long range of what I can be as an artist. And I work my ass off trying. Because I know what I want to be."

Mission: accomplished.

( Originally published July 3, 2019, at 3 a.m. PT )

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Tom Cruise Jumps Out Of Airplane In New Amazing Commercial (VIDEO)

Wow. Let’s just call it like it is. Tom Cruise is certifiably nuts.

I mean…yes, the guy is a Hollywood legend. And his movies have earned billion of dollars at the box office. So, how is it that this late in the game Cruise seems to be getting crazier than ever with stunts?

He’s well-renown for doing the majority of his own stunts in the new Mission Impossible and Top Gun movies. And now…here is is jumping out of an airplane. Aya, caramba! This man is nustso! Check it out!

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Tom Cruise kicks ass.

The 60-year-old movie star, who has a penchant for pulling off death-defying stunts to entertain the masses, returned to the silver screen with a new commercial that aired during NFL football on Sunday.

In the commercial, Cruise filmed himself jumping out of a plane that soared over a South African movie set to celebrate the box office juggernaut that was Top Gun: Maverick , while promoting his upcoming Mission: Impossible sequel, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One (the seventh installment in the franchise).

In the commercial, Cruise thanked viewers who attended theaters to propel Top Gun: Maverick over the billion-dollar worldwide box office mark as people feared going out to the cinema during COVID and without the help of China's box office, which took offense to the film's pro-American messaging.

RELATED: ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ PROVES AMERICA NEEDED A WIN

While Marvel and Disney movies continue to bend the knee to China, Cruise remains cavalier in his approach to moviemaking and truly leaves it all out on the set.

Whether it's against movie villains or stomping the worldwide box office during the age of COVID, Cruise is devoid of all fear that stands in the way of getting the job done. And he's back at it again.

Maverick was a hell of a win for Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie, who is re-teaming with Cruise for the final two films scheduled in the Impossible franchise.

Simply put, no one does it like Cruise in today's movies.

The unabashed love for a cinematic experience, often at the risk of his own health, further proves that Cruise is likely the last true American action star to grace the big screen.

From climbing the Burj Khalifa; hanging off the side of a plane; flying a real F-14 jet for Top Gun: Maverick ; to now sky-diving for a film promo, Cruise is as fearless as ever.

Best of all, Top Gun: Maverick hits streaming via Paramount+ on Dec. 22. Time to fly high.

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It's been two and a half years since the first trailer for Top Gun: Maverick , the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 flyboy classic, but four delays later — we're almost feeling that need, the need for ... you know, speed and what not.

The NFL dropped, I guess , what one would call a trailer for a football game — the epic showdown between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Kansas City Chiefs for today's AFC Championship. The organization recruited none other than Tom Cruise to set the stage, as it were, for the big showdown, as well as to treat pigskin lovers to a few high-flying clips from the definitely upcoming Top Gun .

"Two teams coming off heart-pounding wins, two organizations on the edge of history, both committed to being the best of the best," says Cruise, with a wink or two to his cinematic aviation roots.

The trailer weaved in footage from T op Gun: Maverick , peppered in between shots of the AFC teams in full play mode. "The stage is set," says Cruise, "it's the Kansas City Chiefs against the Cincinnati Bengals and a dogfight for the AFC Championship. So, let's kick the tires and light the fires, because the time is now."

One fire was certainly lit, as the Cincinnati Bengals defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, and are heading to Super Bowl LVI to face off against the Los Angeles Rams on Feb. 13. Meanwhile, Top Gun: Maverick will soar into theaters May 27 to take our breath away, again.

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Top Gun & Top Gun: Maverick

“Tom was our first and only choice for Top Gun , that’s who Tony Scott liked, and Don and I really pursued him,” recalls Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced the original hit with late partner Don Simpson. “I don’t think he was a pilot back then, but he just had the charisma and we loved what we saw in his film career. You could tell he was a terrific actor and that is so much of what it is all about.”

It was to become Cruise’s signature immersion into the process of preparation. “He went down to Miramar in advance and hung out with a lot of the pilots, found out what they liked and why they did what they did. He just cares so much, and not only about his character but the whole movie. A lot of actors walk into a role and just worry about themselves and how they’re perceived. Never Tom. That was the way he was back in ’85 when we made the first one, and he showed it again this time.”

On the first film, Cruise was the only cast member who didn’t lose his lunch while filming dialogue scenes inside those roaring jets. Mindful of that unpleasant experience, he made it his mission to make sure the new crop of actors playing Top Gun pilots in the sequel fared better.

“We learned on the first one,” Bruckheimer says. “He was the only one we got good footage on; we couldn’t use the footage on the other actors because he was the only one who didn’t throw up. So, Tom designed a flying program for all the actors this time. It took months to do this. First, they went up in a single engine prop plane, just to get a feel for flying. Then, an aerobatic prop plane, and then a jet, and once they were comfortable in that jet, he put them in the F-18. Tom designed [the process] himself to acclimate the actors to the G forces they would experience.”

Kosinski previously directed Cruise in the 2013 sci-fi film Oblivion . In the Top Gun sequel, the director says Cruise put so much into mentoring the young actors on set who were in awe of him. “Tom is an actor that, if you can get him interested in your project, then you can do almost anything,” Kosinski says. “When you combine that with something beloved like Top Gun , it becomes an unstoppable force when you go to make it. We needed that on this movie because what we were doing was very intense and there were a lot of things that hadn’t been done before. Having Tom there to push through the ideas and techniques we were going to use was really helpful. Tom knew just how difficult capturing those images would be, just how physically grueling it would be for the actors.

“I remember one day on the carrier, when Tom was sitting with these young actors, most of them just starting their careers,” Kosinski adds. “Miles Teller has a lot under his belt, but the rest were new. For them, every day was like a master class, and he would make time for them every day. He would sit down and have these impromptu sessions with the actors, either to talk about the scenes we were shooting that day, the technical aspects of shooting an aerial sequence, or broader advice, like how to build a career. I remember Tom asked Glen (Powell), what kind of career do you want? Glen said, ‘I want your career, Tom.’ So, Tom said, ‘How do you think I got that?’ Glen said, ‘By choosing great roles.’ And Tom said, ‘No. That’s not how I did it. I did it by choosing great films. Then, I took the roles and made them the best I could.’ That advice blew Glen’s mind. If you look at Tom’s career, that’s exactly what he did. He chose great films and directors he admired. Regardless of the size of the role, especially on a movie like Taps . And then he created something with it, made the role his own. That’s something these younger actors hadn’t thought about and can only get from someone who spent 30 years as a movie star. I thought it was really interesting to watch.”

Jerry Maguire

Cruise’s turn as the star sports agent who loses his throne after an existential crisis would mark his second Oscar nomination and one of his best-remembered performances.

Cruise shows a different side in the romantic comedy. Writer-director Cameron Crowe wrote many lines that were execution-dependent, that would be the difference between heartwarming and cringe-worthy, and Cruise embraced all of them. That includes the climactic scene, when Maguire pleads with his estranged wife (Renée Zellweger) to give him another chance, a plea delivered in a crowd of pessimistic women who’ve all had their hearts broken by cads.

“Oh, Tom couldn’t wait for that scene,” Crowe says. “I was a little nervous about some of the lines, like, ‘You complete me.’ It’s a slippery slope; if you lean wrong into a line like that, it’d probably be the first thing you cut. But he said, ‘I want to say I love you in this movie, and I want to say it with that line.’ And by the time he got to it, it was two in the morning, at the end of a long week.

“Tom surprised the women because we didn’t tell them that he would be there to do the scene with them that day. In he comes, and in the most loving way, this heavyweight was ready for the knockout. He gently crushed it. The ladies were crying. The crew members were crying. And Renée was a mess. He just took great pleasure in being able to deliver a line that he knew I was on the fence about. He’d said, ‘Just give me a shot, man. You’ll see if I got it, or if I didn’t.’ And, you know, I’m still just so proud of it.”

Crowe recalls other ways that Cruise endeared himself to those around him, from one late night when an In-N-Out Burger truck showed up, courtesy of the actor, or the way he handled the first young actor who pulled out of the precocious child part that eventually went to Jonathan Lipnicki.

“Tom stayed in touch with the mother of the kid who had asked to be replaced,” Crowe says. “Tom wrote him and called and sent him stuff. I only knew this because his mother called to say, ‘Thank you for everything Tom Cruise has done to make my son feel good about even being in the movie and working with him as much as he did.’ I went to Tom on the set and said I couldn’t believe what he’d done, spending the last few weeks making sure his spirits were high. Tom just said, ‘Well, I just don’t want that guy growing up, looking at movies and feeling disappointed about what happened. I want him to love movies.’ Wow.”

When Russell Crowe changed his plan from playing the assassin who conscripts a cab driver to drive him to a series of murders in Collateral , director Michael Mann went right to the doorstep of Cruise, even though it would be a decided departure from the actor’s résumé of hero roles.

“In Tom, I saw Lee Marvin,” Mann says. “When Tom zeroes into a certain kind of person, if they are far enough away from him so that it’s a turn-on for a man of adventure, to be on some kind of a frontier with a character he can get to know but is very different from him, I could tell that within him it becomes a real adventure. To play Vincent, this solipsistic sociopath, who has all the f*cking answers and is so methodical and good at what he does, it felt like Tom was a perfect fit. He’s a perfectionist about knowing how to do the things he is supposed to do, which is why he does his own stunts in Mission: Impossible . The sociopathy of this guy was so unique, in his cosmic indifference and outrageous statements that still crack me up when I see some of the scenes with Jamie Foxx in the taxi cab. ‘You ever hear of Rwanda? So, what do you care about one fat guy who gets thrown out the window?’ Or answering Jamie’s accusation of ‘you killed him’ with, ‘I didn’t kill him. The bullets killed him and then he fell out the window.’ The flat irony of Tom’s delivery on those lines is so perfect. It was a very different character for him, and I knew Tom would throw himself into whatever I needed to take him through to become that assassin.”

When I mention the memorable shootout scene in the nightclub and that Cruise’s proficiency with weaponry is reminiscent of the acumen shown by Keanu Reeves in the John Wick films, Mann is quick to correct the record.

“ John Wick’ s are not real techniques,” he says. “What Tom did, those are real techniques and there was a lot of training with my friend Mick Gould, who was the head of close-quarter combat training for the British SAS. The scene in the alley, there’s no cut in that scene… It came down to doing the work. There was nothing he was doing that wasn’t established close-quarter combat moves that came from months of training. That included blending in. Obviously, people know Tom, but I wanted him to feel what it would be like to blend in, to mix with people and have conversations. He went to Central Market and trained to be a FedEx delivery guy. He said to me, ‘They’re gonna know it’s me.’ I said, ‘No, they’ll see the sign that says FedEx, and you’ll wear sunglasses and a cap and carry that portable computer that drivers used to have when they made deliveries.’ Tom went in and delivered something to a liquor stand and sat down and struck up a conversation with a couple people and insinuated himself into the lives of others. There was a lot of psychological training he did. Tom is a dream. He sees the adventure in what we do, just the way I do, and I imagine other directors do. He just goes for it.”

Mission: Impossible

After scripting the Cruise World War II thriller Valkyrie , Christopher McQuarrie became the actor-producer’s creative partner on the Mission: Impossible franchise with 2015’s Rogue Nation , 2018’s Fallout , the recently completed Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and the eighth installment currently in production. Cruise had stepped up his commitment to outrageously ambitious stunts right before McQuarrie got there, when Brad Bird directed Ghost Protocol , and Cruise scaled the glassy exterior of the world’s largest skyscraper in Dubai, 123 floors up. But it was on McQuarrie’s watch that Cruise hung from the exterior of a flying Airbus A400M in midair for Rogue Nation , and when Cruise broke his ankle after a leap during a chase in which he crashed into a wall. It was a rare mishap, and McQuarrie feels that Cruise is so meticulous in his stunt prep and so confident in his ability to walk away unscathed, that the director swallows hard and says yes.

“I was asked once by a film student: ‘How do you know when you’ve made it?’” McQuarrie says. “I said, ‘You don’t make it. You’re making it. Actively. All the time. May you never make it. May you always be making it. May you look back one day on all you’ve made and go right on making more.’ Tom embodies that. There is no finish line, no pinnacle, no summit. He applies all he’s learned to something new, then studies it with brutal honesty: Where did we go wrong? Where did we go right? How do we apply it to the next thing? How do we push the limits of what is possible? How do we create the most immersive, engaging experience for the widest possible audience? How do we do all that with an emphasis on character and story first? Tom’s not still here by accident.”

McQuarrie could not recall a stunt Cruise insisted on doing that the filmmaker tried to talk him out of. “I get asked that a lot,” he says. “Honestly, no. Is there anything I wish I hadn’t suggested? Absolutely. When I’m sitting in an A400M with the engines running and my friend is strapped to the fuselage, I’m thinking, Maybe I should have kept this one to myself. The truth is, that stunt seems tame now. What we’ve done since, I still can’t believe. If my hair could get any whiter, it would… Tom understands how all of the individual parts function. His level of preparation is exceedingly present and aware. The bigger the stakes, the higher the awareness. That awareness is contagious and enormously clarifying.”

J.J. Abrams made his feature directorial debut on Mission: Impossible III , the one in which Phillip Seymour Hoffman went mano a mano with Cruise after kidnapping the agent’s wife (Michelle Monaghan). Abrams says the stunts weren’t as eye popping as the ones in the films directed by McQuarrie and Bird (Abrams is a producer of all of those films). While Abrams was a hotshot TV director and showrunner with Alias , Cruise pushed for him to direct, despite his being untested on the big screen.

“I blame Tom Cruise entirely on my having a career,” Abrams says. “He did all the impossible heavy lifting I don’t think anyone could have done to give me a shot. I will be forever grateful for everything he did.”

They met when Cruise and Steven Spielberg wanted Abrams to script War of the Worlds (scheduling didn’t work) and they cooked up a Mission: Impossible movie different from the one Paramount thought it was going to make. “While I was shooting the Lost pilot, Tom watched Alias and asked if I would be interested in Mission: Impossible . They were meant to shoot that other version of Mission . Steven was meant to shoot Munich and then War of the Worlds , and somehow Tom convinced both Steven and the studio, and it seemed like a herculean task only Tom could do, but he managed to reorder the films. Steven agreed to do War of the Worlds first, and Mission: Impossible got moved to after. What I remember is that I had a meeting with Tom and Sherry Lansing, who was high on this other version of the movie. I remember Tom basically saying, that he and I were going to do Mission: Impossible together. I remember Sherry saying she liked the other script and Tom saying, ‘This is the one we’re going to do.’ And she said, ‘OK.’ I’m sitting there, watching him take a wild chance on someone who had never directed a feature before, and I couldn’t believe it was me. I came to learn that kind of thing is a normal Tuesday for Tom.”

Any fear Abrams had that the film’s star and producer would impose himself on a young director was quickly allayed. Abrams says Cruise had a clear understanding of the lanes each occupied, and that he relied on good directors to push him to do his best work.

“Any first film is a surreal experience,” Abrams says. “To have it be something where the first day you are filming in Rome with Tom Cruise on a Mission: Impossible set, now that is incredibly surreal. On the second film I directed, which was Star Trek in 2009, I remember getting to the set the first day and feeling the palpable sense of the absence of Tom Cruise. Which is to say, I had only known shooting a movie with Tom, which was a kind of gift you can’t find anywhere else. You have someone who you always know is working as hard — if not harder — trying to make something work, and he is number one on the call sheet. It’s an incredible rarity.”

American Made

Doug Liman, who directed Cruise in the fact-based American Made , the sci-fi Edge of Tomorrow and the upcoming film they’ll shoot in outer space, got to see more than most filmmakers what it is that makes Cruise tick.

“I lived with Tom when we made American Made ,” Liman says. “When you work with Tom, it’s a seven-days-a-week job. No matter how hard a worker you are, and I consider myself that, it’s nothing compared to Tom. After 40 or 50 straight days, we were coming up on July 4 weekend. It happens his birthday is July 3 and I’m thinking that since his birthday happened to fall on a holiday, maybe Tom will want to have a long weekend off to celebrate his birthday somewhere. I mention to Tom, ‘Are you thinking of going away for your birthday?’ Tom says, ‘No. I was thinking since we have the day off on July 3, we can use that time to have the eight-hour aviation meeting that we’ve been having trouble scheduling.’ I am beyond tired and I’m like, ‘You want to have an eight-hour meeting on your birthday?’ He said, ‘Yes, that’s what I want for my birthday. I want to be making a movie. That’s the best birthday present.’ There was no blowing out candles, either.”

“Cake? No, Tom doesn’t eat cake. You don’t get to look the way he looks, by eating birthday cake. You have to make a life choice there. You know the suit of armor, the exoskeletons he wore on Edge of Tomorrow ? They were extremely heavy, cumbersome, took 10 minutes to get on and off and was too heavy for him to sit in between takes. He would get out of the armor and go, we’re wasting all this time, me getting in and out of this suit. So, Tom gets this idea that, between setups, it would save time if, instead of getting in and out of his suit, we converted a child’s swing set into something with hooks that he could hang from, in between setups.”

For the result, picture the gangster Carbone, hanging from a meat hook in the freezer truck in Goodfellas .

“Yeah, that is the visual,” Liman says.

“Living with Tom on American Made , I came to the conclusion that it would be like if you imagined a premise for a high concept movie, where you got to wake up and be Tom Cruise for the day. He gets up with so much energy. He was a real taskmaster when it came to chores in the house. We didn’t have a housekeeper, for security reasons, and we had to clean the house. He would constantly pull out a pot that I had already cleaned and put back, and say, ‘This is not clean.’”

Liman is circumspect about timing and the story he and Cruise will film in space, but not the intent. “The thing both of us have in common is, we’re not interested in the gimmick of shooting a movie in outer space,” he says. “For Tom and me, it’s a challenge to make sure we make a movie that is so frigging good it can survive the inevitable criticism, ‘Did they really have to go into space to shoot that?’”

Barry Levinson, who directed Rain Man with Cruise, saw the film win Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman’s turn as the autistic savant. Cruise wasn’t nominated for playing Charlie Babbitt, the hustler who kidnaps his brother Raymond and drives him to L.A. to claim an inheritance, but in Levinson’s mind, “Tom had the harder job,” he says. “It was a difficult role because he basically had to drive the movie. Otherwise, Raymond would just be content to sit in a motel. His obligation is to continually drive it and push him, and at the same time not exhaust the audience with a one-beat, ‘C’mon, we’re going.’ It was a very hard role, and he never got the credit he deserved for that film.”

Levinson got the job after Martin Brest, Spielberg and then Sydney Pollack were in and then out because of the tricky nature of the material. Levinson says they found the movie while shooting on the road trip, and what surprised him was Cruise’s skill in improv, and willingness to try most anything they could think of.

“When Sydney dropped out, we were seven weeks out from shooting and we hit the road and kept working on dealing with the relationship between the two of them as we went along,” Levinson says. “We did an extensive amount of ad-libbing and improv work for that film, and Tom jumped in there and ran with it. It was at that point very different for him, not only to be that type of character, but also because the movie was a two-hander. It’s just these two guys basically, and they’ve got to carry the movie. Tom was never resistant to the idea of, well let’s just see what happens if we do this. I said to him once, ‘Let’s get in a car, I wonder if the audience is thinking, the brother hasn’t done anything for Raymond. I think he needs to do something so at least he has made an attempt to deal with him.’ He said, ‘Well, what about if I gave him fresh underwear? That will lead to an argument. Raymond can’t wear that because he gets his underwear in Cincinnati.’ That was the basis of the idea to just have a little something, riding in the car. The two worked really well with each other. I know it sounds like it can’t be true, but it was as good a relationship between the two guys and in terms of what we were trying to accomplish. They were both contributing, and Tom was the one who had to push this movie all the time and I think Dustin would acknowledge that. You keep slowly seeing the changes, as he becomes more emotionally attached to his brother.”

A Few Good Men

To A Few Good Men director Rob Reiner, there is just about nothing Tom Cruise can’t do as an actor, and so he was not at all surprised by the way he went toe-to-toe with Jack Nicholson in his prime during that electric courtroom scene.

“I’ll tell you something. He’s a great actor,” Reiner says. “I know in the last many years he has been doing his Mission: Impossible movies and different things. It seems every really good actor, whether it’s Chris Evans or Mark Ruffalo, they are all in these big action pictures. The thing Tom used to do is, he used to balance that out. I would love to see him do some things that aren’t the franchise films. I’d seen him do things like Taps , Risky Business , and I never worried about him going up against Nicholson because Tom has an incredible work ethic. At that time, I’d never met a young actor with as much dedication as he had to the process. He worked his ass off in rehearsals. He was not only on time, but early every day, and always had his lines nailed. Never had I seen a young actor with a work ethic like this guy. He may tell you behind the scenes that he was intimidated by Jack, but I never saw it.

“When Jack came and we had the first reading of the script, he came fully loaded to work, with a performance at the table. In a table read, you’re usually just kind of marking it. And when Jack got into his performance, it just sent a message to every other young actor. Kiefer Sutherland, Tom, Demi (Moore) and Kevin Bacon and Kevin Pollack, everybody involved knew, you better step up here. We’re not messing around. Tom was always right there with it. I would love to see him play more complex characters than the ones he’s doing now because people don’t realize how great an actor this guy is.”

The Outsiders

When Francis Ford Coppola adapted the S.E. Hinton novel The Outsiders , he wound up with a cast filled with the most promising young actors in the business, from Patrick Swayze to Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, Ralph Macchio and C. Thomas Howell. Cruise’s role was smaller by comparison, but Coppola had an inkling he might be special based on how the rest of the cast buzzed about how it was Cruise who got the starring role in Risky Business , while the rest of them were confined to ensemble work.

“It’s hard for me to remember that time since I was so focused on casting all of the boys’ roles, of which there were many,” Coppola says. “In those days, I was very experimental about the way I handled auditions. I felt strongly that everyone who showed up be given a chance to show their strengths, so we held them in an open arena where everyone was able to watch the other actors’ auditions for the same roles. The method was as new to them as it was for me. Through that process, I discovered a wealth of talent from which to choose. It’s the luck of the draw I guess, but certainly Tom more than justified his promise. Risky Business was a great showcase for him, and as I recall, he left our set a few days early in order to begin production on that film.”

What stood out to Coppola was the young actor’s openness to messing with what would become his signature thousand-watt smile, to fit the character.

“I was impressed by his willingness to go to extremes in creating a character,” Coppola says. “If the role called for a chipped tooth, he would willingly chip his tooth. He is also very athletic, which you can clearly see in the scene where he backflips off a car. He did not go light or easy in his commitment. I liked his look, and I liked his performance in Taps . He might have been suitable for the older brother role, except he was a little young compared to Patrick Swayze.

“I can’t say that I would have predicted [what was to come for Cruise] at the time, but back when we worked together, he did impress me as a very committed actor with many gifts. Certainly, the incident of the self-inflicted chip in his tooth is an example of his whole-hearted commitment to character.”

Born on the Fourth of July

Oliver Stone badly wanted to tell the story of wounded Vietnam vet Ron Kovic’s transformation from gung-ho soldier to anti-war protester, and each time the film faltered, he could feel it crush the film’s subject. “I had written it with Al Pacino in mind,” Stone says. The movie fell apart when Pacino dropped out, and the project languished for years. Until Cruise sparked to it. The actor was coming off a string of hits that included Risky Business , Cocktail , Top Gun and Rain Man . He was the brightest young superstar in the business and used that clout to empower a picture that allowed him to test his acting mettle in a new way.

“I was broken hearted, and Ron was a basket case,” Stone says. “I said to Ron, ‘If I ever get the chance, I’ll come back and do it.’ Platoon opened up the world for me, and it was either Charlie Sheen or Paula Wagner who suggested Tom Cruise, who was her client. I had met with Tom, and he liked Platoon so much. Maybe no one was going to give the performance as Kovic that I’d seen Al Pacino do in rehearsals, but Tom had other qualities. He was the right age, he looked far younger [than Pacino] and he worked his ass off prior to rehearsal. He hung out with Ron Kovic for a few weeks, going around L.A. in a wheelchair and getting the moves down, getting the mentality down. Ron was such an enthusiastic teacher and Tom took everything he could and kind of fell in love with Ron in a way that he absorbed him into his performance. And they stayed in touch for many, many years.”

Stone says the shoot was grueling, but Cruise was game. “We started the film overseas in the Philippines, where Platoon was made, and for Tom and everyone else, it was a very tough shoot because of the subject matter. I remember the scenes in the hospital being especially difficult, but Tom stuck through it. I was not surprised because I saw his dedication. Tom is a person with a tremendous willpower and once he committed to the role, he really committed.”

Stone says he wondered if Cruise was saying yes to anything the director asked. “In the early scenes, I was worried because I hadn’t seen him wrestle,” Stone says. “He tells me, ‘I can wrestle.’ Well, I’ve been told that kind of thing by a lot of actors, and when you get there on the day of the shoot, when you have no f*cking time to adjust, you find out they can’t wrestle. So, I’m worried. He said, ‘Just trust me. Don’t put pressure on me, I put pressure enough on myself.’ And sure enough, he actually wrestled very well. So never doubt Tom Cruise, I suppose is the lesson.”

Minority Report

For a young actress playing a difficult role as a precognitive woman in the Spielberg-directed Minority Report , measuring up in a blockbuster can be a daunting task. For that reason, Samantha Morton says she often thinks of how much easier a difficult shoot became because of the film’s star.

“I suppose I didn’t fully appreciate how rare Tom was, but now having been in the industry so long, he’s incredibly rare,” Morton says. “Not only is he unbelievably professional, and at a time when a lot of very famous men around me were not being very professional, he was unbelievably generous to me as an actor and as a creative person in that space. And it wasn’t fake or false in a kind of job way. He is genuinely one of the nicest, kindest people I’ve ever worked with, and I cherish those memories of that experience because the job itself was very tough.”

“Mr. Spielberg was incredibly kind and supportive and they made me raise my game because they believed in me. When an actor of his caliber is on set, oftentimes those individuals can be all about the self, and here’s the opposite of that. Because of (Tom), it was, ‘What do we need to make us better?’

“I was 22 when I worked with him, and I didn’t have a huge wealth of knowledge in regards to his cinema history at the time, and I was just there to get my job done. I’ve since seen how exceptional his body of work is. He’s insanely talented and continues to be so, and I have more praise for him as the years go by. He wasn’t being like that because he had to, back then, it was just how he is.”

Morton mentions Cruise sending a coffee truck on a particularly trying day. “People do that now, but nobody did that stuff back then,” she says. “My character was always very emotional and vulnerable. And maybe I was being a bit too method for my own good at the time. But there were scenes where the character couldn’t walk, and he physically carried me all through this shopping mall because I wasn’t taking my own weight. I said, ‘Oh God, I’m so sorry,’ after I don’t know how many takes of the scene. He just smiled. A lot of other actors would have moaned, said something to the director who would have come back and said, ‘Is there any way Sam can just walk on this take?’ Not Tom. And I can tell you, his generosity and exuberance were contagious.”

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How Many Different Licenses Does Tom Cruise Have? Exploring the Multi-Talented Actor’s Hidden Skills

Tom Cruise is undoubtedly one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, known for his incredible acting talent and his daredevil stunts in action-packed movies. However, there is more to this iconic actor than meets the eye. While many articles focus on his net worth or filmography, let’s take a unique deep dive into Tom Cruise’s lesser-known side by exploring the various licenses he holds. From piloting aircraft to performing his own stunts, here are nine interesting facts about the different licenses Tom Cruise possesses.

1. Private Pilot License:

Tom Cruise is a certified pilot and has held a private pilot license since the early 1990s. He is known for his love of aviation and owns several aircraft, including a Gulfstream IV and a P-51 Mustang.

2. Helicopter License:

In addition to piloting airplanes, Cruise also holds a helicopter license. This allows him to fly helicopters, further showcasing his passion for aviation and adventure.

3. Commercial Pilot License:

Surprisingly, Tom Cruise has gone beyond his private pilot and helicopter licenses and obtained a commercial pilot license. This license permits him to fly aircraft for commercial purposes, should he ever desire to do so.

4. Motorcycle License:

Not only is Cruise skilled in the air, but he is also a licensed motorcycle rider. He has been spotted riding motorcycles both on and off-screen, demonstrating his proficiency in navigating these two-wheeled vehicles.

5. Jet Ski License:

Cruise’s love for high-speed thrills extends to the water as well. He holds a jet ski license, enabling him to ride these exhilarating watercrafts with ease.

6. Skydiving License:

Known for performing daring stunts in his movies, it comes as no surprise that Cruise holds a skydiving license. He is trained in both solo and tandem jumps, allowing him to execute these adrenaline-pumping feats on his own or with a partner.

7. Scuba Diving License:

Exploring the depths of the ocean is yet another passion of Tom Cruise. With a scuba diving license, he can embark on underwater adventures and witness the beauty of marine life up close.

8. Racing License:

Cruise’s need for speed extends beyond motorcycles. He also possesses a racing license, which allows him to participate in motorsport events if he wishes to showcase his driving skills on the track.

9. Weapons License:

Though not surprising considering his action-packed films, Tom Cruise holds a weapons license. This license permits him to handle firearms for various purposes, including training for movie roles that involve the use of weapons.

Now that we’ve explored some fascinating facts about Tom Cruise’s licenses, let’s address some common questions that often arise regarding his diverse skill set.

1. How did Tom Cruise become interested in aviation?

Cruise’s passion for aviation began during his childhood. He often went to the airport to watch planes take off and land, sparking his interest in flying.

2. Has Tom Cruise ever used his pilot license for a movie role?

Yes, he has. In the 2012 film “Jack Reacher,” Cruise flew the helicopter during a thrilling chase scene.

3. How many hours has Tom Cruise logged as a pilot?

While the exact number is unknown, it is reported that Cruise has logged thousands of hours as a pilot.

4. Has Tom Cruise ever raced professionally?

No, Cruise has not competed professionally in motorsports. His racing license is primarily for personal enjoyment and potential participation in amateur events.

5. Has Cruise ever used his weapons license outside of movie sets?

There is no public record of Cruise using his weapons license outside of his movie roles. It is presumed that his training is primarily for on-screen performance purposes.

6. How often does Cruise skydive?

While there is no fixed frequency, Cruise has been known to skydive occasionally, often during breaks from filming.

7. Are there any other licenses or skills that Cruise possesses?

Apart from the licenses mentioned, Cruise is also trained in various martial arts, including karate and aikido.

8. Does Cruise have a captain’s license for operating large vessels?

No, there is no evidence to suggest that Cruise holds a captain’s license for operating large ships or vessels.

9. How does Cruise find time to maintain his licenses while working on films?

Cruise is known for his dedication and intense work ethic. He likely manages his time efficiently to ensure he can pursue his passions alongside his acting commitments.

10. Has Cruise ever used his licenses for humanitarian or philanthropic purposes?

While his licenses may not directly relate to his humanitarian work, Cruise has been actively involved in charitable efforts, particularly through his support of the Church of Scientology’s initiatives.

11. Is Cruise planning to pursue any other licenses in the future?

As his career progresses, it wouldn’t be surprising if Cruise adds more licenses to his repertoire. However, his future intentions remain unknown.

12. Has Cruise ever had any accidents or mishaps while using his licenses?

There have been no reported accidents or mishaps involving Cruise while using any of his licenses. He maintains a high level of professionalism and safety in his pursuits.

13. Are there any films in which Cruise performed his own stunts using his licenses?

While Cruise has performed numerous daring stunts throughout his career, there is no specific information regarding stunts that directly utilized his licenses.

14. Does Cruise’s love for aviation influence his film choices?

Cruise’s passion for aviation may indirectly influence his film choices, as he has starred in movies that involve aviation or aerial sequences, such as “Top Gun” and “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.”

15. Does Cruise plan to pass on his passion for aviation to his children?

Cruise’s children, Isabella and Connor, have shown some interest in flying, but there is no public information regarding their pursuit of licenses.

16. How long did it take Cruise to obtain his various licenses?

The duration of time it took for Cruise to obtain each license varies, as it depends on the specific requirements and training involved for each certification.

17. Does Cruise ever combine his licenses, such as piloting an aircraft while skydiving?

While it might be an exhilarating thought, there is no evidence to suggest that Cruise has combined his licenses in such a manner.

In summary, Tom Cruise’s licenses go far beyond his acting prowess. With his private pilot, helicopter, commercial pilot, motorcycle, jet ski, skydiving, scuba diving, racing, and weapons licenses, he showcases a diverse range of skills and interests. From the skies to the open road and even underwater, Cruise’s licenses reflect his relentless pursuit of adventure and passion for pushing boundaries both on and off-screen.

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What Businesses Does Tom Cruise Own? Actor to Mogul Business Ventures Unveiled

Tom Cruise isn’t just a powerhouse on the silver screen; he’s also a savvy businessman with an impressive portfolio. While he’s best known for his blockbuster hits, there’s more to Cruise than meets the eye.

From his production company to his stake in various entertainment ventures, Cruise has spread his wings far beyond the realm of acting. Let’s take a peek at the business side of this Hollywood icon and discover what enterprises he’s got his hands in.

Cruise/Wagner Productions

In the heart of Hollywood’s soaring skyscrapers and star-studded Walk of Fame, Cruise/Wagner Productions stands as a testament to Tom Cruise’s entrepreneurial prowess. Founded in 1993, the production company is a partnership between Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner, a former talent agent with an equally keen eye for cinematic hits. This dynamic duo has steered the company to remarkable achievements , producing several box-office successes that have ingratiated Cruise not just as an actor but as an influential producer.

The company’s filmography is impressive, boasting titles that have become synonymous with high-octane action and compelling narratives. Mission: Impossible —a franchise that redefined the spy genre—is perhaps the brightest jewel in their crown, grossing billions globally and cementing Cruise’s status as a producer who can deliver both critical acclaim and commercial success.

While action may be their bread and butter, Cruise/Wagner Productions hasn’t shied away from investing in an array of genres, demonstrating Tom Cruise’s ability to identify and produce films that resonate with a diverse audience. From the haunting psychological drama Vanilla Sky to the historical thriller Valkyrie , the company’s versatility is evident.

Cruise and Wagner have fostered strong connections within the industry, enabling them to attract some of the most celebrated directors and A-list actors to their projects. Their knack for creating collaborative environments has not only resulted in high-quality entertainment but has also nurtured enduring relationships in the ever-evolving landscape of Hollywood.

As Cruise/Wagner Productions continues to establish its presence in the entertainment world, their ability to adapt and innovate remains key. With technology and audience preferences constantly changing, Tom Cruise’s business acumen keeps him ahead of the curve, ensuring that the company doesn’t just react to trends, but often sets them.

United Artists

Tom Cruise’s ambitions in the entertainment industry didn’t halt with the success of Cruise/Wagner Productions. In a move that showcased his deep understanding of the business, Cruise took a significant step by partnering with MGM in 2006 to resurrect the historic film studio United Artists. The legacy of United Artists, founded by cinema giants like Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, was now in the hands of one of Hollywood’s most driven actors.

Under Tom’s leadership, United Artists aimed to give artists more control and a collaborative space to create unique and compelling content. He took the creative helm, determined to steer the studio back into prominence by producing films that resonate with both critics and audiences. “Lions for Lambs” , featuring heavyweights like Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, was among the first films created under the revitalized banner.

While Cruise’s tenure with United Artists was brief, it left an indelible mark on the studio’s approach to filmmaking and business strategy. Despite stepping down from his executive role within a few years, the period marked by Cruise’s involvement brought forth critical discussions about independence and innovation in Hollywood’s dynamic ecosystem. His foray into the storied studio is yet another testament to his versatility, not just as an actor but as a filmmaker with a keen eye for both art and commerce.

United Artists also provided Tom Cruise with an avenue to further imprint his vision onto the industry, reinforcing the notion that celebrities can deftly navigate the complexities of Hollywood’s corporate side. It wasn’t just about starring in blockbusters but about nurturing a more artist-friendly environment — one where the story and the storytellers are valued components of the cinematic experience.

Tom Cruise Aviation

In his continuing pursuit of personal and professional excellence, Tom Cruise also took to the skies literally. His passion for aviation is well-known among fans and industry insiders alike. Cruise, a licensed pilot, owns a P-51 Mustang , a historic World War II fighter aircraft. Aside from the Mustang, he’s also the proud owner of a Gulfstream IV , a jet known for its luxury and speed.

Cruise’s fascination with aviation isn’t just for play; it’s an extension of his persona . He often pilots himself to film sets and has been known to engage in aerobatic maneuvers, bringing a sense of adventure to his travels. The investment in these aircraft is not only a nod to his love for flying but also speaks to his approach to business: private, efficient, and with a penchant for control.

Tom Cruise’s aviation assets stand as a testament to his commitment to his craft. He doesn’t simply play a pilot on-screen; he embodies the thrill-seeking, barrier-breaking characters that have made him a household name.

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Aircraft ownership, for Cruise, isn’t merely a means of transport. It’s a statement —about his dedication to the craft, the value of time-saving practices in business, and his personal brand that prizes freedom and a capacity for unique experiences.

Aviation isn’t just a part of Cruise’s life; it’s an integral thread in the fabric of his being , weaving together the domains of his film career, his business ventures, and his personal aspirations. Like his United Artists initiative, Tom Cruise Aviation is yet another example of how he charts his own course, in the air and in the competitive skies of Hollywood.

Church of Scientology

While Tom Cruise’s endeavors in the entertainment and aviation sectors are well-known, his involvement with the Church of Scientology is another facet of his multifaceted life. He’s not just a member of this controversial organization but one of its most prominent advocates. His connection with Scientology has sparked curiosity and debate, but it’s evident that Cruise’s commitment is deep-rooted and personal.

Scientology’s Principles and Beliefs shape its members’ perspectives, and Cruise has often credited the Church for his successes and personal growth. The actor’s investment in the Church is more than just financial; it’s an intertwining of his life’s philosophies with the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard, the Church’s founder.

Rumors have circulated that Cruise holds a significant position within the Church’s hierarchy, although these claims are often speculative. The Church’s tight-knit community values privacy, making it challenging to suss out the specifics of Cruise’s role. Regardless, his dedication to Scientology endures as a key aspect of his public persona.

The star’s association with Scientology extends beyond personal belief into the realm of business. There’s speculation that he has used his A-list status to champion Scientology-affiliated businesses. Influence and Networking within the Church could provide Cruise with unique business opportunities, though details on exact enterprises remain sparse due to the Church’s infamous secrecy.

Despite the Church’s contentious reputation, Cruise’s association with it has seemingly done little to dampen his career. In Hollywood, he’s as much a power player as ever, with the Church of Scientology accompanying him behind the scenes. It’s a testament to Cruise’s Teflon-like star power that his business interests continue to flourish amid the complexities of his spiritual affiliations.

Tom Cruise’s Real Estate Portfolio

Tom Cruise, a man known for his blockbuster smashes, also boasts a real estate portfolio as impressive as his filmography. They’ve often likened his collection of homes to the eclectic characters he’s portrayed—each property with a distinct personality and charm. Cruise’s investments span the map, signifying not just wealth but his penchant for privacy and excellence.

The Hollywood icon’s property holdings are nothing short of breathtaking. From the sprawling hills of Telluride, Colorado to the buzzing heart of New York City, Cruise’s choice in estates mirrors his adventurous spirit. His Telluride home, on the market for $39.5 million , is tucked away on over 298 acres of land, complete with a 10,000-square-foot main house that’s a monument to rustic luxury.

Down in sunny Florida, Cruise’s Clearwater apartment is strategically placed near the spiritual headquarters of the Church of Scientology. It’s reported that the building’s top floor, rumored to be his retreat, promises unobstructed views and a sanctuary from the paparazzi’s prying lenses.

Further west in Beverly Hills, the star’s former estate—a palatial spread once valued at around $30 million—vied for attention with the grandest of the golden state’s mansions. Although Cruise has since let go of this gem, the property bore witness to opulent parties and was a sterling example of extravagance.

While specifics about each property Cruise owns aren’t always public, it’s known that he has a knack for flipping his homes for a profit. Industry professionals speculate that beyond his star power, he possesses a shrewd sense of the real estate market. And with each strategic buy and sell, he cements his role not just as a leading man in films but as a savvy investor in the high-stakes world of real estate.

Tom Cruise’s business ventures are as varied and dynamic as his film career. From the skies to the silver screen and even into the realm of spirituality, he’s built an empire that mirrors his diverse interests and relentless drive. His properties aren’t just homes but investments that reflect his eye for excellence and privacy. Whether he’s in the cockpit of his P-51 Mustang or walking the halls of United Artists, Cruise’s entrepreneurial spirit is unmistakable. His deep ties with the Church of Scientology may stir up controversy, yet they’ve become an integral part of his identity. As Cruise continues to navigate the worlds of entertainment, aviation, and real estate, his ventures serve as a testament to his ambition and the breadth of his influence.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is tom cruise’s role with united artists.

Tom Cruise aims to empower artists by providing them with greater control over their projects, thereby fostering a platform for creating unique and innovative content within United Artists.

Does Tom Cruise own any aircraft?

Yes, Tom Cruise owns a vintage P-51 Mustang and a Gulfstream IV, reflecting his passion for aviation and his dedication to his personal interests and brand.

Is Tom Cruise involved with the Church of Scientology?

Tom Cruise is not only a member of the Church of Scientology but also one of its most prominent advocates, often crediting the Church for his professional successes and personal development.

What position does Tom Cruise hold in the Church of Scientology?

Cruise’s exact position within the Church of Scientology’s hierarchy remains undisclosed and is the subject of speculation due to the Church’s private nature.

Has Tom Cruise used his Church of Scientology connections in business?

While specific engagements are unverified, it is speculated that Tom Cruise has utilized his Church of Scientology network to support Scientology-affiliated businesses.

Has Cruise’s career been affected by his association with the Church of Scientology?

Despite the Church of Scientology’s controversial reputation, Tom Cruise’s career continues to prosper without any signs of being adversely impacted by his association with the Church.

Does Tom Cruise invest in real estate?

Tom Cruise possesses an extensive real estate portfolio, including properties in Telluride, New York City, Clearwater, and Beverly Hills, indicating his keen interest in real estate investment and his shrewdness in the market.

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Is Tom Cruise a real pilot? All about his flying dream

by Chege Karomo
– on May 26, 2022
in People

Tom Cruise returns for the second installment of Top Gun , which promises to be an improvement on the first one. However, before the film’s premiere, Cruise teamed up with television host and actor James Corden to promote the movie. In 2018, Tom took James skydiving; in 2022, Tom strapped him into a plane piloted by the Mission Impossible star.

“I’m gonna go up in a 75-year-old plane with someone who isn’t a pilot? Yeah, that sounds like a good idea,” Corden protested .

If it were another actor, it’d be difficult to believe that they were a pilot. However, given Tom Cruise’s penchant for performing his own stunts, it’s pretty easy to fathom Cruise having a pilot’s license.

Tom Cruise has held a pilot’s license since 1994

Tom Cruise qualified as a pilot in 1994, nearly three decades ago. Cruise reportedly owns several planes, including a luxury Gulfstream jet and his beloved P-51 Mustang, a WWII fighter that’ll appear in Top Gun .

“The P-51 Mustang you see in the movie is actually my plane, so I got to pilot in those sequences,” Cruise told Hello magazine . “I also got to be in the jet fighter a lot more this time, which was thrilling. It was something I had been working up to.”

Cruise told the outlet that Top Gun allowed him to fulfill two dreams: flying and acting. “All I ever wanted to be was a pilot or an actor, so Top Gun was a huge moment in so many respects, including my passion for aviation,” Cruise said. “I got to actually fly in an F-14 jet which was a dream come true, and play a character I loved in Maverick.”

Tom told the PA News Service that he advocated for realism in the new Top Gun , translating to as little computer trickery as possible. For Cruise, a man with a decades-old flying license, flying would be easy, but the rest of the cast needed intense training.

For three months, the actors developed skills crafted by Cruise and learned how to film while inside the aircraft. However, few can match Tom Cruise, as Miles Teller admitted that he never got used to the feeling:

“We trained for this for a long time, Tom had us in a flight programme for several months before we ever started filming. But it was never something you really ever got, like, super comfortable with, at least for me. It was something that every time I went up, it really tested me and I felt like I wanted to puke pretty much every time.”

Cruise didn’t get to fly the F-18 Super Hornet in Top Gun

Cruise may be an experienced pilot, but the military doesn’t hand the keys to one of their most prized assets to anyone with a flying license.

The military hasn’t given a reason why it didn’t offer Cruise the F-18 Super Hornet, but we think money has a lot to do with it. The jet costs $70 million, nearly half of the film’s $152 budget. Few insurers would accept to insure potential damage of such an aircraft.

Furthermore, despite having a pilot’s license, Cruise may not have the requisite skill to fly an F-18 safely – placing one in his hands would put lives at risk. The crew and cast filmed using real F-18 jets driven by trained Navy pilots.

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Tom Cruise teams with Warner Bros. in a deal to make new movies

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Tom Cruise is headed to Burbank.

The actor and producer has reached a development and production deal with Warner Bros. to create original and franchise films starring Cruise, the studio said Tuesday.

As a result of the deal, a coup for Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group Co-Chairs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, Cruise and his production company will have offices on Warner Bros. Discovery’s Burbank lot.

Specific projects under the partnership have not yet been announced, but the pact is not exclusive or structured like a typical first-look deal. Cruise will continue to lead his existing franchises, such as the long-running “Mission: Impossible” movie series, with Paramount Pictures. (The next “Mission: Impossible” installment is scheduled for a 2025 release date.)

“We are thrilled to be working with Tom, an absolute legend in the film industry,” De Luca and Abdy said in a statement. “We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Tom back to Warner Bros. and look forward to bringing more of his genius to life on screen in the years ahead.”

Cruise’s past projects with Warner Bros. have included films such as “Interview With the Vampire” and “Risky Business,” “The Last Samurai” and “Eyes Wide Shut.” His most recent project with the studio, “Edge of Tomorrow,” was released a decade ago.

“I have great respect and admiration for [CEO] David [Zaslav], Pam, Mike, and the entire team at Warner Bros. Discovery and their commitment to movies, movie fans, and the theatrical experience,” Cruise said. “I look forward to making great movies together!”

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Did Tom Cruise Have Plastic Surgery?

By PSP Team

Updated on January 2, 2024

“Mission Impossible” actor Tom Cruise is one of Hollywood’s most handsome superstars. He first made his mark in the early ’80s as a charming leading man and teen heartthrob.

Tom’s longevity in the business is legendary as he has made box office movies one after the other. But fame and prominence, apparently, has its price.

Behind his success and multi-million dollar movie deals, Tom has been the subject of controversies, especially about his looks. It seems like the “Top Gun” star hasn’t aged despite being in the business for more than four decades.

Peopl are wondering if Tom Cruise is a fan of plastic surgery. We know he definitely worked on his teeth. But did he get face fillers too? And has he had a nose job?

While it’s usually the female stars who ignite such talks but Hollywood is such a competitive business that even actors are making efforts to stay appealing and attractive.

Before & After Photos

All theses rumors surrounding Tom can’t be helped as he’s a widely photographed star. There are simply too many visual records on his changing appearances.

So, we’re going to look at his photos before and after he became famous to see if he’s invested in cosmetic surgeries. Let’s get it on!

Tom Cruise’s Bad Teeth…FIXED!

When Tom was filming “The Outsiders” over 35 years ago, he had such crooked teeth. We’re not kidding when we say that this was not part of his character’s appearance. Rumors were that Tom used to cover his old teeth with a cap because it looked so bad and he hardly smiled for the cameras.

But thanks to dental technology, braces, and a good dentist, Tom’s teeth today is an even set. He has one of the biggest, brightest and warmest smiles in Hollywood, too.

His Front Teeth Alignment

Tom’s front teeth, however, still has its flaws despite having a cosmetic dentistry procedure. If you look closely, the actor’s mega-watt pearly grin — obviously the product of whitening and veneers — is not exactly symmetrical to his face. His middle tooth’s alignment is slightly off to the center.

However, given how it looked when he was as a child, his smile makeover is a huge improvement.

Does Tom Have a Nose Job?

Rumors said that the actor has had more than one nose job. According to this “before” photo, Tom’s nose used to have a wide nasal bridge and a large tip. Now, his nose looks smaller and is perfectly-shaped to m match his gorgeous face.

In 2016, Tom actually admitted he had rhinoplasty while talking to reporters at the BAFTA red carpet, but he didn’t say when he first got it and whether he had more than once.

Did He Get Botox Injections?

The Hollywood superstar also disclosed that he got botox on his forehead, cheeks and chin. You’ve got to give him a big credit for being so open and admitting these enhancements.

A friend and former co-star Cuba Gooding, Jr. revealed in an interview that he found Tom at his home one time in the middle of a session with his plastic surgeon. He simply isn’t shy about getting these procedures.

Fans, however, think that Tom may have gone overboard with the fillers. While promoting a film, the actor graced the premiere with swollen cheeks and puffy face, as seen in this “after” photo.

Has Tom Cruise Had a Face Lift?

Despite his handsome face, Tom apparently isn’t happy that he’s aging and his wrinkles are starting to show. So, it’s quite possible that he has gotten a facelift to fix what bothered him.

His jawline looks tightened the droop around his brows seems to have been corrected too.

What About Hair Transplant?

Why doesn’t Tom have a receding hairline? He is in his mid-50s, so if he does have hair loss problem, then should be evident on his head by now.

Is it his genes or is it the effects of a hair transplant? Sources told the National Enquirer in 2017 that Tom has been a fan of hair transplant for quite awhile.

While Tom has been open about the work done on his face, he’s been mostly mum about this one and won’t talk about the regrowth and transformation of his hair. Sp, we’ll let you decide this one.

Tom’s Transformation

Without a doubt, Tom Cruise’s appearance has made him a dream man in most women’s eyes. Let’s see how his facial and body features have changed over the years.

Here’s a rare photo of Tom Cruise when he was young. He already had the confidence of a Hollywood star as a little man, as no one can smile this big with such a bad front tooth. It wasn’t until he started acting that Tom made regular visits to the dentist.

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV had an adorable pillow face that hid the definition of his jaw during his teenage years. Puberty was not kind to Tom because he also had flawed skin and baby fat was an issue for a awhile.

When “Top Gun” hit the screens, Tom’s star power rose quickly. With his beautiful eyes and perfect face, he instantly became the poster boy for Hollywood idols in the ’80s. This was also the same period that Cruise had a cameo in “Young Guns.”

90’s Tom was hailed as one of the sexiest men alive. This was probably the year he started considering a nose job and maybe jaw surgery too. You can see subtle changes to his nose shape and jawbone.

Tom grew long hair, a beard and a mustache for his role as the vampire Lestat in “Interview With the Vampire.” Here, he was attending the movie premier at the Mann Village Theatre in Westwood, California. Fans absolutely loved this new look.

The was the start of the “Mission Impossible” franchise that sealed Tom’s profile as a box office star. His smoldering eyes in this photo suggested that he might’ve had an eye surgery as his eyebrows appeared lower.

What do you think?

Tom sported a new hairstyle following his divorce from Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman . With a shaved head, the actor also opted to grow a beard and perhaps it’s to hide the surgery done on his chin?

We speculate he might’ve had chin implants as his face looks more proportionate and angular in this photo.

The Katie Holmes years saw Tom embracing diet and exercise in his lifestyle. He also needed to keep fit for his roles in action films, where he supposedly does his own stunts. To maintain an ideal body shape, however, Tom might have gotten liposuction for his flat abs.

Tom Cruise is not a tall man. The women he dates usually towers over his height but this has not shaken his confidence.

Tom sparked plastic surgery talk with this photo from the Vanity Fair Oscar Party because, at 50 years old, there were not many wrinkles on his face. The actor did share in interviews that he has a regimented skin care routine but he was also open about his skin’s anti-aging secrets, which included botox fillers.

Tom probably overdid it with the face injections this time because of the puffiness on his cheeks. Twitterverse exploded with questions like, “What happened to Tom Cruise’s face?” Doctors affirmed that he might have just gotten a fresh round of botox when he hit the red carpet.

Finally, Tom’s face is thinner so either he’s lost some weight or the fillers have worn off! His neck also looks tighter but we don’t think he had a neck lift.

At 55 years of age, there is no white hair on sight, does Tom use hair dye to make himself look younger?

As Tom filmed his sixth “Mission Impossible” movie, the signs of aging are more evident. There are noticeable wrinkles on his forehead and crowfeet around his eyes, but there are no traces of a browlift. He’s older but he still looks good!

Has Tom found the secret to reverse his aging? Well, it certainly seems that way as the star attends the 10th Annual Lumiere Awards at Warner Bros Studios looking absolutely amazing.

I can even spot a pimple on his left cheek, which some claim is the sign of youth.

So, it’ll be interesting to see how he looks in 2020.

More Info About Tom Cruise:
Real Name: Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Birthday: 3rd of July 1962
Star Sign: Cancer
Birth Place: Syracuse, New York, United States
Occupation: Actor, Film Producer, TV Director, Screenwriter
Net Worth: $550 Million
Nationality: American
Race / Ethnicity: German, Irish, English, Welsh
Relationship: Unknown
Children: Suri Cruise, Isabella Jane Cruise (Adopted), Connor Cruise (Adopted)
Height: 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight: 67 kg (148 lbs)
Body Built: Athletic
Chest Size: 48 in (121 cm)
Arm Size (Bicep): 16 in (40 cm)
Waist Size: 30 in (76 cm)
Shoe Size: 9 (US)
Natural Hair Color: Dark Brown
Natural Eye Color: Green

(Featured Image Credit: Getty)

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Tom Cruise's Outrageously Lavish Lifestyle Is Hard To Believe

Tom Cruise is one of the world's highest-paid actors . Over the years, Cruise has commanded huge paychecks for his popular blockbusters. For the 2005 film "War of the Worlds," which grossed $603 million worldwide, Cruise was reportedly paid $100 million after he decided to forgo an advanced check. Six years later, Cruise earned a portion of the $700 million gross made off of "Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol," per Forbes . Still, Cruise's biggest payday was right around the corner. After the release of the Joseph Kosinski-directed 2022 film "Top Gun: Maverick," which is Cruise's highest-grossing film at $1.4 billion, he was projected to have earned over $100 million.

Cruise is worth every dime, as a Hollywood executive told Variety in 2022. "I would never bet against Tom Cruise," they said. "Most actors aren't worth what you pay them, but Cruise and maybe Dwayne Johnson justify their salaries." The big bucks Cruise has earned during his decades-long career have afforded him a very lavish life. The actor has had the finest possessions—cars, houses, jets, motorcycles, you name it! Cruise's star power has given him privileges and experiences that the 99% can only dream of. So, in Jerry McGuire's famous words, Nicki Swift will "Show you the money."

He holds a pilot's license and has several private jets

While the fear of heights would freeze most people, Tom Cruise doesn't. In June 2018, Cruise and former television host James Corden went skydiving in a segment promoting "Mission: Impossible – Fallout" on " The Late Late Show with James Corden ." Similarly, Cruise thanked his audience for supporting "Top Gun: Maverick" in December 2022 while aboard a helicopter on the set of "Mission: Impossible-Dead Reckoning."

Cruise has a pilot's license , which he reportedly acquired in 1994. He is also said to own three to five jets, per Forbes . In a promotional clip for "Top Gun: Maverick," Academy Award-winning writer Christopher McQuarrie, Cruise's long-term collaborator, revealed that Cruise's fighter-bomber was used in the blockbuster. "The P51 Mustang as featured in the film is Tom's, and it's a beautiful aircraft," McQuarrie disclosed.

Cruise's "Top Gun: Maverick" co-stars have shared their experiences with him in the pilot's seat. For actor Jennifer Connelly, flying alongside Cruise as he performed rolling stunts on the P51 Mustang was a ride of a lifetime. "It was an incredible experience," Connelly said. "Certainly like nothing I've ever done before." Cruise's other co-star, Glen Powell, told CBS Mornings that working with Cruise included such a thorough flight program, which inspired him to go ahead and get his own pilot's license.

Tom Cruise's real estate portfolio is worth hundreds of millions

Tom Cruise has bought and sold exquisite homes over the years, and in November 2016, The Tampa Bay Times reported Cruise acquired the uppermost floors of a Clearwater, Florida, building. Per the publication, Cruise was looking to merge three $3 million units into one luxurious penthouse. Seven years later, it was reported that Cruise owned not one but three other condos within the same building, all worth $1,475,000. Cruise's purchase raised eyebrows for two reasons—the project's developer was a member of the Church of Scientology, and its location wasn't far from the church's headquarters.

Just as Cruise invests millions in buying and tailoring properties to suit his needs, his asking price when selling them is audacious. In 2016, Cruise made a $7.5 million profit when he sold the 10,000-square-foot Beverly Hills home he once shared with ex Katie Holmes for $40 million. Two years later, the actor put his Telluride, Colorado, ranch on the market for $59 million. In March 2021, it was back on sale for $39.5 million, and by May of that year, Cruise had found a buyer.

The actor loves fast and expensive cars

As far as the need for speed goes—pun intended—Tom Cruise is not limited to private jets. In April 2007, Cruise and Katie Holmes were pictured arriving at Mastro's Steakhouse in a 1958 Chevrolet Corvette (C1). Different variations of the sports car model, whose production ceased in 1962, recorded speeds of up to 142 mph. At the time of writing, the car is still valuable, and its average market price is $120,196.

In May 2006, Cruise and Holmes arrived at the "Mission: Impossible III" premiere in a Bugatti Veyron (2005). Cruise had a hard time opening the door of the super sports car, which led to a rumor that he'd been banned from ever owning a Bugatti. The luxury car boasts a speed of 252 mph and retails at an average price of $1.5 million as of August 2024.

Still on Cruise's love for top-speed automobiles, the actor used a Ford Saleen Mustang to move around New York during the 2006 premiere of "Mission: Impossible III." Cruise had the car flown overnight from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, for a whopping $13,000. According to John Ficarra, a film car company owner who facilitated that transportation, Cruise owned more than one Ford Saleen Mustang at the time.

Tom Cruise had a money-saving, quick divorce from Katie Holmes

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes pose at event

In June 2012, Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise. The "Edge of Tomorrow" actor was apparently caught off-guard by the unexpected move. Luckily, the pair had a prenuptial agreement, which reportedly guaranteed Holmes payment depending on the number of years they were married. One of the causes of the divorce, as Cruise revealed in a deposition, was his affiliation with the Church of Scientology (via ABC ). Holmes cut ties with the church at the onset of divorce proceedings, while Cruise is reportedly still a member as of 2024.

Holmes and Cruise were able to reach an agreement in a record 11 days. According to lawyer Marilyn Chinitz, a partner at the firm that represented Cruise, the couple settled swiftly for two reasons. First, they both had lawyers who had their best interests at heart. Second, a much longer process would have cost them more money. "It's incredibly costly to litigate," Chinitz told Bloomberg Law . "And the cost factors are enormous. You're better off taking those monies and putting it into your child's college account and saving it."

His children attended high-cost private schools

Tom Cruise shares adopted children, Connor and Isabella Cruise , with "The Hours" actor Nicole Kidman. Connor and Isabella reportedly went to Delphian School in Portland, Oregon, a private day and boarding school that doesn't come cheap. As of 2024, students at Delphian School pay $27,652 to $78,596 annually in tuition fees.

During Katie Holmes and Cruise's split, the former lovebirds' daughter Suri Cruise, whom the pair welcomed in April 2006, was entitled to a figure in the neighborhood of $400,000 every year in child support until her 18th birthday. She, too, attended some costly schools. Suri was reportedly at the $40,000-per-year Avenues: The World School in New York. Per Daily Mail , her curriculum included Mandarin lessons.

In June 2024, Suri graduated from LaGuardia High School, a public school with many famous alumni, including Jennifer Aniston, Timothée Chalamet, and "Suits" star Gina Torres. Suri then enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University. According to the school's 2024/2025 fee structure, students pay either $86,812 or $73,000 for tuition and other expenses, depending on whether they are boarding.

Was Tom Cruise aboard a $570,000-per-week superyacht?

In July 2021, the "Triple Seven," a luxury superyacht, arrived in Penzance, an ancient town in southwestern England. Tom Cruise was rumored to have been aboard the vessel early in the morning. Observers reportedly noticed a supposed silhouette of Cruise as the sun began to rise, but there was no verification that it was the "American Made" actor. Cruise had earlier been seen leaving "Triple Seven" when it stopped in Mevagissey, a fishing village in Cornwall that's only a 52-minute drive away.

The "Triple Seven" is the epitome of luxury at sea. It has an 18-member crew and can host up to 10 guests. To rent it, customers must pay at least $570,000 per week. The superyacht features luxurious amenities such as a lounge, a sun deck jacuzzi, and a beach club. Fitness enthusiasts have a reason to smile when aboard it since the 223-foot superyacht includes a gym.

As if renting "Triple Seven" is not expensive enough, buying it costs an arm and a leg. As of August 2024, the listed market price is $42.2 million. Cruise may not have a problem affording it since his net worth as of March 2024 was $600 million, per Celebrity Net Worth .

He's worn some high-end timepieces in the past

Tom Cruise claps at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships

Tom Cruise is often seen wearing super expensive watch brands at events. In July 2018, Cruise was promoting "Mission: Impossible – Fallout" at Lotte Cinema World Tower in Seoul, South Korea [ 0:06 ]. At the press conference, the actor was sporting an all-black outfit which he paired with a stainless steel Calibre de Cartier Chronograph. The elegant timepiece had a price tag of $10,900 at the time, but the watch model has since been discontinued.

In another sighting, Cruise was pictured carrying an umbrella as he walked into Jimmy Kimmel's studio in February 2023. Despite the blurring effects of the rain, the Rolex GMT-Master II on his left wrist was hard to miss. Per GQ , Cruise's GMT-Master featured white gold in place of normal steel. The GMT-Master II in Oystersteel costs $30,900 at the time of writing, which means Cruise could have paid a lot more for his watch.

Cruise clearly has a strong liking for the Rolex brand. During the 2024 Wimbledon Women's Singles final, Cruise was in attendance alongside celebrities like "Euphoria" star Zendaya and Russian tennis legend Maria Sharapova. Once again, he was dressed in all-black and wore a Rolex Day-Date, which retails at $40,100 as of August 2024.

Tom Cruise has an exotic taste in motorcycles

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes arrive in a Honda Rune motorcycle

Tom Cruise has an exquisite preference in motorcycles, although it's not quite clear which ones he specifically owns. At the June 2005 premiere of "War of the Worlds," Cruise and Katie Holmes arrived in a 2004 Honda Rune motorcycle. The following year, Cruise went to the premiere of "Mission: Impossible III" in New York while riding a Confederate Hellcat F-113 Combat. The 2005 Hellcat is priced at $45,000 as at August 2024. In September 2018, Cruise was spotted leaving on a Ducati SuperSport after dining at a Japanese restaurant.

Cruise, as it turns out, is a skilled motorcyclist. In an interview with Moto Tribe , Justin Kell, who's helped create most motorcycle stunts in Hollywood, said of the actor, "Tom Cruise can ride a motorcycle really well. He's a really good rider." Cruise's most daring stunt was performed in the 2023 film " Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One ." Cruise rode a motorcycle through a ramp and off a Norwegian cliff. He had a sharp descent, then proceeded to deploy a parachute that helped him land safely on the ground. During a behind-the-scenes shoot , Cruise said of the Honda CRF450R bike he used, "This is next part training right here — motocross."

He plays golf in his free time

Tom Cruise poses with the Killarney Country Club team

Tom Cruise can obviously afford to pay to play on any golf course in the world, but it's not always as expensive as it seems. In July 2020, Cruise made a stop for lunch at Richmond Park Golf Club in the southwest of London. The club is quite friendly to the public, seeing as its 2024 joining and membership fees only amount to $157. However, it has an additional "pay as you play" revenue model.

In May of the following year, Cruise took time away from filming "Mission: Impossible" in North Yorkshire, England, to play golf at St. Andrews, Scotland. St Andrews is one of the world's oldest golf clubs backed by luxurious brands like Rolex. As of August 2024, an individual weekly package for playing golf at the facility costs $230.

Cruise traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa, in December 2022 and stopped at Killarney Country Club . The facility is also quite affordable — it has a $302 annual student membership fee as of August 2024. So, what's different about Cruise if golf clubs are that accessible? Well, in true Hollywood superstar fashion, Cruise had the convenience of visiting these golf clubs in a helicopter. That's a luxury that's not available to many regular folks.

Tom Cruise sends former co-star Dakota Fanning the same birthday gift every year

Tom Cruise and young Dakota Fanning all smiles

Actor Dakota Fanning starred alongside Tom Cruise in the Steven Spielberg-directed thriller "War of the Worlds" in 2005. Fanning turned 11 during filming, and Cruise was kind enough to buy her a gift. "He [Cruise] gave me my first cell phone for that birthday. It was a Motorola Razr," the "Please Stand By" actor recalled on " The Kelly Clarkson Show ." "I wanted a Razr so bad ... and I must have been talking about it a lot because that's what he got me."

Every year since, Fanning has received the same gift from Cruise — a pair of shoes. That, too, was a calculated and thoughtful gift on Cruise's part, as Fanning told Clarkson. "I ... like loved shoes when I was little and like, I started to fit into really small adult shoes when I was on the "War of the Worlds" press tour, so I was very excited about them. And so, from that birthday on, he always sends me shoes." Fanning assumed the birthday tradition would die on her 18th birthday, as she shared on " Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen ," but the shoes kept coming well into her 30th birthday.

The Tom Cruise Cake is a holiday hit

When the holidays come around, Tom Cruise has a foolproof way of keeping a smile on everyone's face — coconut cake. Cruise's flavored coconut bundt cakes come with a custom note from the actor and distributed to celebrities and random California residents. They are made at Doan's Bakery, a small, family-run shop in downtown Los Angeles.

Several celebrity recipients of the "Tom Cruise Cake" have expressed how good it tastes. In an interview with Virgin Radio UK , "Forrest Gump" star Tom Hanks said, "It is a vanilla coconut bundt cake ... It is the most delicious cake you'll ever have on your platter." In a conversation with " The Jennifer Hudson Show ," Cruise's " Top Gun: Maverick" co-star Glen Powell revealed that the cake became a favorite amongst his friends, and he had to create a party in its honor. "My friends that have tried it, they love it so much that ... they hit me up, like, right around December 1st, like 'Hey! Has it arrived yet?'" Powell shared. "So, now I have like a party at my house where I'll have the 'Cruise Cake.' It's my 'Cruise Cake' party and I'll invite people over to try a bite or two of the 'Cruise Cake.'"

Word around town is that Cruise chose the cake because he loved it when he first tasted it. However, the actor surprisingly doesn't indulge because of his active lifestyle, as he disclosed on " The Late Late Show with James Corden ." "I love sugar but I can't eat it," Cruise said.

Tom Cruise is generous to strangers

Tom Cruise is not only generous to friends, family, fans and his co-stars. On separate occasions, Cruise has shown kindness to complete strangers. In March 1996, Cruise coincidentally crossed paths with a young woman named Heloisa Vinhas, who was knocked down by a runaway driver. Per Tampa Bay Times , the actor not only helped her get medical attention, but paid her hospital bill. Eight years later, Cruise made a $5,000 contribution to a Dairy Queen donation box to help foot the medical bill for 11-year-old Ashley Flint. Flint, a Virginia resident, had sustained serious injuries in a go-kart accident.

Through the years, Cruise has worked with numerous charities, including UNICEF, Mentor L.A., and Raising Malawi. Although his philanthropic work is appreciated, not all of his contributions have been received well publicly. Cruise's connection to the Church of Scientology is often met with harsh criticism. In 2004, the actor reportedly gave the controversial church $3.2 million in donations, per Daily Mail .

He performed a stunt at the 2024 Olympic Games closing ceremony

Tom Cruise does a stunt at the 2024 Olympic Games

When the 2024 Olympic Games ended, the United States topped the medal table with 40 gold medals, 44 silver medals, and 42 bronze medals. The Republic of China came in second, and Japan took third place. The hosts, France, managed fifth place with 64 medals.

At the closing ceremony, Tom Cruise handed over the Games to its next destination: Hollywood. Cruise dropped from the Stade de France rooftop as musician H.E.R performed [ 0:34 ]. He walked through a crowd that cheered him on, then received the Olympic flag from Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass and seven-time gold medalist Simone Biles. The actor mounted the flag on a motorcycle. He proceeded to ride through the streets of Paris, all while a fully illuminated Eiffel Tower provided a majestic background. Cruise got into an airplane, skydived, and planted the Olympic flag at the Hollywood sign.

During a behind-the-scenes feature, Cruise couldn't help but express his delight. "[I'm] very excited that it's going to be in L.A.," he told L.A. 28 . "I'm very excited to be part of it — to bring it from Paris to Los Angeles. I admire these athletes so much. They take it to that level."

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Tom Cruise Officially Became A Movie Star 40 Years Ago Today With 1 Iconic Scene & A $63M Hit

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One scene in the 1983 Tom Cruise movie Risky Business made his co-star, Joe Pantoliano, decide to get a nose job, after seeing an image of himself next to the lead actor. The '80s teen comedy follows Joel Goodsen (Cruise) as he hires a sex worker, Lana (Rebecca De Mornay), after being left home alone for a few days. However, his mother's Steuben glass egg falls into the hands of Lana's boss, Guido (Pantoliano), with Joel forced to find a way to get the egg back, and pay for damages when his father's car crashes.

Speaking with Empire Magazine about the film, Pantoliano revealed how a particular image of him and Cruise from Risky Business made him decide to get a nose job. The actor explained how much bigger his nose was contrasted with his co-star's, making him fear he'd be typecast as a villain because of the way it looked. He also joked that, now that he's gotten it done, he instead portrays " bad guys with smaller noses ." Check out what Pantoliano had to say about his decision below:

You see those two noses? When I saw this movie I was like, I gotta get a nose job, because I'm just going to play bad guys, and I want to be a leading man. Tom Cruise has got a very distinguished nose, but my nose dwarfed his, so I literally had a nose job. And now I just play bad guys with smaller noses! (Laughs) But I just remember Paul Brickman [director] wanted all of the characters, including Guido, to be likeable. Tom was, what, gosh, was he like 21? Or 22? I was the old man on the job!

Tom Cruise appeared in his breakout role exactly 40 years ago today - his career has taken a big turn since then, spanning from comedy to action.

What Pantoliano's Nose Job Meant For His Career After Risky Business

He still portrayed his fair share of bad guys.

Following his role in Risky Business , Pantoliano began to take on supporting roles in a variety of films. While he was still a villain sometimes, like Francis Fratelli in The Goonies , he also played a variety of archetypes in films like Empire of the Sun , Memento , and The Fugitive . In 2001, he joined the cast of The Sopranos season 3 as Ralph Cifaretto, a capo who becomes one of Tony's major enemies as the series progresses. This variety of roles shows that, while he's still played the bad guy sometimes, it's not all he's done since his nose job.

Some of his most recognizable work also includes Cypher in The Matrix , as well as Captain Conrad Howard in the Bad Boys movies . His more recent work includes a cameo as himself in the Chucky TV series, as well as a major role in the 2021 horror thriller Hide and Seek . While his work has included plenty of villain roles since Risky Business , it's also clear he's expanded to plenty of other roles, despite his initial worries about being typecast. How much his nose job had to do with his career progression, though, is unclear.

What We Think Of Pantoliano's Nose Job Story

The procedure was his decision to make.

While there's no way of knowing how much Pantoliano's nose job impacted his career after Risky Business , it seems like his villain roles afterward were because of how well he's able to portray antagonists. However, his acting abilities were likely the deciding factor for his stints in movies like Bad Boys , showing the versatility of the kinds of characters he could play. Even if his nose job didn't play a major role, it's clear his confidence was boosted by the decision he made.

Pantoliano's recent credit is a short appearance in 2024's Bad Boys: Ride or Die , reprising his role as Captain Howard.

Source: Empire Magazine

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Risky Business is a 1983 comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise as Joel Goodsen, a high school student who experiences a wild adventure while his parents are away. When Joel's desire for freedom leads him to make some questionable decisions, he finds himself entangled in complications that challenge his morals and future. Directed by Paul Brickman, the film explores themes of adolescence, responsibility, and the pursuit of success.

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Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama Endless Love. [1] [2] 1985 stared in Legend.Two years later, he made his breakthrough by starring in the romantic comedy Risky Business (1983), [3] [4] which garnered his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. [5]
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Jan. 9, 2024 11:10 AM PT. Tom Cruise is headed to Burbank. The actor and producer has reached a development and production deal with Warner Bros. to create original and franchise films starring ...
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Actual Commercial Tom Cruise did for Magnolia and was aired on actual sex channels (1999) ... One of my favorite characters that Tom has ever played. ... Additional comment actions. Tom Cruise is always getting older He knows he'll never be that young again And when Tom Cruise looks back over his shoulder He sees a thousand younger leading men ...
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Tom Cruise's Outrageously Lavish Lifestyle Is Hard To Believe
Tom Cruise is one of the world's highest-paid actors.Over the years, Cruise has commanded huge paychecks for his popular blockbusters. For the 2005 film "War of the Worlds," which grossed $603 ...
One Tom Cruise Scene Literally Made His Co-Star Get A Nose Job
One scene in the 1983 Tom Cruise movie Risky Business made his co-star, Joe Pantoliano, decide to get a nose job, after seeing an image of himself next to the lead actor. The '80s teen comedy follows Joel Goodsen (Cruise) as he hires a sex worker, Lana (Rebecca De Mornay), after being left home alone for a few days. However, his mother's Steuben glass egg falls into the hands of Lana's boss ...

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