Interesting facts from the life of Tom Cruise
Popular Hollywood actor Tom Cruise is familiar to almost everyone. He played a huge number of very different film roles, and many films with his participation received cult status. What is only one “Vanilla sky”! It is impossible not to mention his amazing talent and ability to get used to the role – when you watch how he plays, you really believe what is happening on the screen.
The mother of the future star was also an actress. It probably had some influence on his future career choice.
In Tom’s childhood, his family often moved in search of work, so by the age of fourteen he had already replaced a dozen schools.
Young Tom Cruise had crooked teeth. This was subsequently corrected. He also suffered from dyslexia.
At about the same time, he was fond of wrestling, and even thought of building a professional career in this sport. Classes he had to leave because of a knee injury.
In college, Tom Cruise played in theater productions.
The future actor missed his graduation at school, because at that time he participated in the production of the musical.
He first appeared on the screen in 1981, playing a small role.
Tom Cruise forbids the use of his image in computer games and souvenirs such as figurines, despite the fact that he was not offered a lot of money for it.
For nearly a decade, he was married to Australian actress Nicole Kidman.
Tom Cruise has repeatedly demonstrated his concern for others. So, in 1996, he witnessed an accident in which a woman suffered. He escorted her to the hospital, and later paid her a large bill for treatment when it turned out that she had no health insurance.
All the dangerous and spectacular stunts in the films he performs independently, without attracting stuntmen.
In 1998, the actor was able to protect a woman who was attacked by street robbers.
He is a big fan of sports equipment. And from the same love as racing cars and motorcycles. Another famous fan of motorcycles is the actor Hugh Laurie.
Tom Cruise’s fortune is estimated at about half a billion dollars. He is in the top of the highest paid Hollywood actors.
The actor is a strong believer in the Church of Scientology. In Russia, this organization is under a partial ban.
In the movie “Risky Business”, Cruz’s hero wears sunglasses from the famous firm Ray Ban. After the release of the film, sales of glasses of this model increased by 2000%.
He spends a lot of money on the needs of the Church of Scientology, and plans to produce at his own film studio to promote this teaching.
For a very long time, the actor has been a vegetarian.
In Japan, Cruise is very much loved, as he visits this country more often than any other Hollywood actor.
Tom Cruise argues that psychiatry is pseudoscience.
One of the three Cruise sisters could not stand his popularity, indirectly affecting her too, and went to live in one of the countries of Oceania.
Tom Cruise is equally good at his left and right hand.
Initially, it was he who was to play the role of the Chosen One in the “Matrix”. But in the end, he refused, and the role went to Keanu Reeves.
Each of the three wives of the actor was eleven years younger than the previous one.
Tom Cruise, like Angelina Jolie, has a pilot’s license.
In 1990, he was recognized as the most beautiful person on earth.
The famous protagonist of the Disney cartoon “Aladdin” was copied from the image of Tom Cruise.
A little known fact: Cruise has a great voice and sings very well.
He is actively interested in Japanese history, and in particular, samurai.