If you haven’t heard of Tom Cruise at least once in your life, then you’re definitely missing out on some of the best movies ever made, featuring one of Hollywood’s top stars.
Cruise has been a mainstay of Hollywood for decades, having starred in dozens of blockbusters in his more than 40-year career.
A mainstay of Hollywood for decades with his authentic acting style
His films have earned a total of $9.5 billion and he achieved his first billion-dollar movie with the release of Top Gun: Maverick this past Spring.
Tom Cruise in the movie “Top Gun: Maverick”
Tom Cruise is described by the press as the last survivor of the movie star era with genuine acting talent. Besides, he is also an extremely flexible producer.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One ( Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One ) – the latest episode in Cruise’s hit Mission: Impossible series was released in the Vietnamese market 4 days earlier than expected. North American market.
The new episode integrates past pain and hatred into the new mission of agent Ethan Hunt, played by Tom Cruise.
Cruise released the first episode of Mission Impossible in 1996, thereby affirming his talent in both art and commercial films.
He has made this series of blockbuster films that have earned more than 3.6 billion USD over the past 27 years and according to critics, Mission Impossible has become increasingly excellent over time, becoming an action brand. It’s a rare thing in Hollywood that wins the hearts of both critics and audiences.
But fame and wealth cannot erase the actor’s humble beginnings or past tragedies.
Growing up poor, he almost became a priest
In the crazy world of Hollywood, especially in the Internet age, fame and fortune can buy some privacy and security, but not enough to erase controversy.
With all that his four-decade career has brought to Cruise, looking back, he realizes that from the beginning he did not live a life as high as he is today.
Tom Cruise had to work part-time from the age of 8 to help his family
In the early 2000s – perhaps the most controversial period of Cruise’s career – he gave a lengthy interview to Parade about his upbringing.
Cruise was born on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York, with the birth name Thomas Cruise Mapother IV.
He was given the same name as his father and his mother was Mary Lee. His father was unlucky and could not keep a job as an electrical engineer and the family often had to move while he looked for work. Tom’s mother became the main breadwinner, working up to 3 jobs at the same time to keep the family afloat.
In the book Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography , author Andrew Morton writes in Cruise’s words that his father was a domestic abuser, often blaming those around him if things did not go his way.
Cruise was once beaten by his father: “He is the type of person that if things go too far and he can’t control it, he will kick you” – Cruise once shared.
According to Cruise, because his family often moved, during his 12 years of schooling he attended 15 schools and he was often bullied.
But Cruise did not accept that bullying because according to him: “I never like to beat someone, but I know if I don’t fight back against my bully, they will bully me for a whole year.”
The weakness that made Cruise even more of a target for bullies was that when he first went to school, he couldn’t read and eventually had to attend remedial classes.
At age 7, Cruise was diagnosed with dyslexia by a psychiatrist referred by his school.
The family was poor and difficult, but that difficult life did not stop Cruise’s passion for cinema since he was 4 years old.
While many other kids find odd jobs around the neighborhood to earn a little money to buy candy or go out, Tom looks for those jobs – from mowing lawns to delivering papers – to have money to buy tickets. watch a movie. He also has to spend his income for the essential needs of family life.
The Cruise family was so tight on money that, on one occasion, they skipped giving Christmas gifts and instead gave each other poems.
Tom Cruise almost became a priest
Cruise’s mother tried to juggle multiple jobs, but any contribution her children could make was welcomed and needed.
It is difficult to mention Tom Cruise without mentioning the Scientology cult. But Cruise grew up in a traditional Catholic family and during his college years, Catholicism was where he sought spirituality.
For a time, Cruise even entertained the idea of becoming a Franciscan priest. Finally, he enrolled in St. Francis in Cincinnati. “We had no money back then, and I went to school for a year completely free,” Cruise later explained.
His time studying in the seminary was clearly a joyful experience for Cruise. Sports, hobby shops, and even the discipline of boarding life all appealed to him.
Tuy nhiên, việc duy trì kỷ luật đó là một thách thức khi không thiếu các cô gái địa phương vây quanh Cruise – khi đó đã toát lên vẻ ngoài quyến rũ.
Sau đó, anh nhận thấy mình chưa đủ sức để cưỡng lại được những sự hấp dẫn trong cuộc sống và tự nguyện rời chủng viện.
Nóng tính nhưng không làm gì nửa vời
Ly hôn và chấn thương thời thơ ấu có thể gây ra bất hạnh sâu sắc trong con người, ảnh hưởng đến khả năng cảm xúc và kết nối của họ. Eileen Berlin – người quản lý cá nhân đầu tiên của Tom Cruise từ năm 1980 đến năm 1983 – nói rằng điều đó đúng với khách hàng cũ của mình.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, she recalled the Cruise she first met as a lively and rather hot-tempered young man.
Although in her words, Tom Cruise may be a “sweet, respectful and polite singer to a fault” who can also easily lose control.
An innocuous gift like a rolled-up photo album with stubs cut from fan magazines might also please him.
In recent years, Cruise has spent most of his time on film sets, living in hotel rooms – mainly in London, the city he fell in love with when making the 1984 film Legend.
He is also close to his daughter Isabella, 25, who lives in London with her husband but has been “estranged” from his daughter Suri since divorcing his third wife, Katie Holmes, since their divorce in 2012.
Above all, Cruise is always a dedicated person in major film projects. Returning to the 7th episode of Mission Impossible, the Amateur is still generating strong power with his explosive moves, even at the age of 61.
Tom Cruise’s risky ghost in the movie “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”
“I love learning new things and pushing the skills I have to the next level. I don’t do anything half-heartedly as a person” – Cruise asserted.
As of 2022, Tom Cruise’s net worth is estimated at $600 million. He has been on Celebrity Net Worth’s list of the 10 highest-paid actors in Hollywood history three times.
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