By The rumors are true
If there’s anything you can describe Tom Cruise as — good or bad — he’s a force of nature. When he’s acting in a film, not only will he not phone it in, but he’ll go the extra mile. If he’s going to tackle a stunt, he’s going to be aggressive about it. If people talk about him being a kind and friendly person, he’s an aggressively kind and friendly person. He does not seem like someone who does anything halfway, and in his recent GQ profile for his Digger promotion, he confirms that he’s intense to work with on a movie.
According to Variety, Cruise explained why he’s so passionate about movies, to the point that he implies that he’ll never be interested in Netflix or TV shows. He explains,
So movies are — this is about humanity. I have nothing against cable or TV or Netflix. I think it’s great. Create jobs and everything. But what I like about cinema is it is all of us coming together in a room and sharing an experience. When I’m working with people, I’m not afraid to, as I’m acting, to look foolish, to do it. It’s like: That’s not what this is about. It’s finding our tone, finding these tools together and having an experience. And look, I work hard, and people that work with me, they know. I expect a lot and I’m upfront about it. It’s like: ‘The rumors are true. And do you want this?’ I’m like, ‘Trust me, the rumors are true. I’ll be here before you. What experience do you want?’”
He continued to say,
I’m very open. It’s not like we don’t have a plan. We have scripts, we have plans, we’re going through it. But I also feel that level of responsibility for — I guess, for everyone. Even when I was a kid, they were like, ‘Oh, come on, Tom. You’re so intense.’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know what to say. I am intense.’ [Laughs.] I got a very good sense of humor about it, but it was like: When I’m interested in something, I want to learn it. I want to understand it. And you want to blast through the confusion and build up that ability.”
Tom will give you a history lesson
Cruise is so passionate about movies that he will also try his damnedest to educate the next generation of movie stars on the medium. Glen Powell once revealed in 2024 that Cruise gave him a six-hour video to watch, which featured Cruise breaking down the film history and everything he’s learned about moviemaking over the years.
Cruise addressed this video, explaining, “It was just very basic. It was something to have people understand, just to have a different concept of lenses and what the lens is and what the frame is. Just the same way as an actor onstage, or in the development of cinema, where it started, and what that frame means and how to understand that frame. There’s just different layers of storytelling, of structure, but also: to understand certain things so that you can forget about it.”
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