Tom Cruise has been very busy with one project after another, wrapping up work on the two-parter Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. But colleagues and fans alike have reported on seeing very different sides to Cruise, with fans slamming his drunk appearance at a party, while his co-stars say that the Top Gun star is actually one of the best actors to work with.
Cruise has been in the industry since 1981, becoming a household name with Risky Business (1983) and Top Gun (1986). Cruise, 60, has had his share of controversies and has made headlines for advocacy work in equal measure, co-founding and raising funds for Downtown Medical to give 9/11 victims detoxification training, while also calling for psychiatry to be banned, calling it a pseudoscience. How does Cruise appear to fans and to the people he works with?
Fans call Tom Cruise old and drunk
Cruise recently celebrated completing Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning with a premiere party hosted at London’s Chiltern Firehouse. Cruise reportedly stayed until three in the morning. Photos of the event have circulated, showing Cruise, friends, and colleagues fully enjoying the celebratory moment. However, fans online have commented on Cruise’s appearance.
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On Facebook, Daily Mail posted images of Cruise with his eyes drooped shut and looking off into the distance. The caption reads, “Hard night, Tom?” The post generated greatly varying reactions. One marveled, “That’s Tom Cruise?? I’m glad you said because he’s soooo unrecognisable here.” Another commented, “He looks like a golden girl.” A different comment referenced his age a little more directly, saying, “He’s getting old, bless him.” Yet another defended, “Looks like Tom Cruise Drunk. Wish I looked that good Drunk!”
Colleagues share what it’s like to work with Tom Cruise
According to his co-stars, though, Cruise is never looking drunk when he’s filming. Bridging the personal and professional gap, Mission Impossible newcomer Hayley Atwell says that she’d heard nothing but good things about working with Cruise ahead of time. Then, after actually working with him, she said he is very attentive to whoever he is working with and stayed professional from start to finish.
Because of his history as a very involved worker, serving as both an actor and a creative mind behind some projects, Vanessa Kirby admitted to feeling “equal parts inspired and terrified” at the prospect of working with him, but ultimately praised him, saying, “requires a real level of commitment and passion and turning up and care. It’s just a beautiful way of working.”
Simon Pegg, who worked with Cruise for 2006’s Mission Impossible, had nothing but high praise for Cruise, saying, “He leads from the top down. And he’s kind of inspiring to be around. There’s no one else like him; he’s the last movie star of the old kind.”