For 50 years, Tom Cruise has played in “Risk Business” (Risk Business), “Top Gun” (Top Gun), “Cocktail” and “Days of Thunder” (Days of Thunder). Hot film, dominating the world, Cruise is now one of Hollywood’s biggest action heroes. He performs all the stunts himself, but do you know some interesting facts about this actor? To celebrate his birthday, , here is an in-depth A-list star.
He grew up with a child abusive father
Since childhood, the actor has been beaten and bullied by his father, and his father abandoned his family when Tom was young. Tom told Parade magazine: “He is a bully and a coward. If something goes wrong, they will kick you.”
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He can’t read until he is an adult
Tom was introduced to the Church of Scientology in the late 1980s. He claimed that due to his weakness and drowsiness, he could barely read. He told the “person”: “I feel that I have a secret throughout my school and career. When I go to a new school, I don’t want other children to know about my learning disabilities, but later I will be sent to tuition. read.”
He once paid a woman’s hospital bill
In 1996, the off-screen hero witnessed him being knocked down by a car in Los Angeles and took the 23-year-old Brazilian-born aspiring actress Heloisa Vinhad to the hospital. When he found out that she had no insurance to pay the bill, he paid the bill in full for $7,000. Obviously, saving people from the plight is not only reserved for the big screen.
He helped hunt down a robber
In 1998, Tom was hailed as a real-life action hero in order to help his neighbour who was robbed in London. The actor hurried to rescue Rita Simmonds. When she got out of the sports car, she was being robbed of jewellery worth 153,000 dollars. Rita told the Evening News: “Tom is very smart. He and his bodyguard rushed to the road and drove the attacker away.”
He can hold his breath underwater for six minutes
When filming “Mission Impossible: Rogue Country”, Tom held his breath underwater for more than six minutes. The actor said in an interview with “USA Today”: “I took a lot of underwater shots, but we wanted to make a suspenseful underwater sequence without cutting. So it’s really fun to do so.”
He almost died in “The Last Samurai”
During the filming of “The Last Samurai”, Cruise almost avoided death when the mechanical horse used in the battle scene broke down. This made his partner, Tada Kiki, waved his blade at the wrong time and hit Tom’s neck almost without stopping. Later, Parallel said: “I just managed to block the sword by an inch from his neck.”
No stunt is too dangerous
Cruise is one of the bravest people in life, he does all the movie stunts himself. In “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation”, he hangs himself on the side of the plane in the first act. In “Mission Impossible: Ghost Agreement,” he was asked to repel 163 floors on the side of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai-the tallest building in the world, and he barely sweated. In “Mission: Impossible 7”, the star rode his motorcycle up a huge slope, descended from the top of a mountain north of Bergen, and then deployed a parachute.
He never won an oscar
Although Cruise is one of the most successful movie stars of all time, there is one thing missing from Cruise’s career: the Academy Awards. Tom has been nominated for Best Actor Oscar twice. He was nominated for “Born on July 4th” in 1990 and was nominated for Best Actor in 1997 for “Jerry Maguire”. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the psychological drama “Mulan”. He has three Golden Globe Awards.
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