To say that Hollywood daredevil Tom Cruise is a bundle of pure energy would be an understatement. After all, he is so energetic that Will Smith once called him a “cyborg”! Today we will tell you what Smith meant, as well as some more interesting facts about Tom Cruise. 
1. I... No, you are a legend! 
This year, Will Smith finally released his long-awaited memoir, entitled Will. In the book, he mentions how much he admires Tom Cruise.
Once upon a time in his youth, Smith decided to take the advice of Arnold Schwarzenegger and promote his films on his own. To reach the top of Hollywood, he had to give tons of interviews and shake hands with thousands of fans. And since Tom Cruise certainly spent a lot of time talking to the press, Smith "vowed to spend two more hours than he did in every country."
What happened in the end? Smith was completely exhausted, and Cruz didn't even break a sweat. “Tom Cruise is either a cyborg or six of him,” Smith writes in the book.
2. Best runner in Hollywood 
If there's one thing we know about Tom Cruise, it's that the ground is always burning under his feet. This is not without reason: it turns out that films in which he runs earn more at the box office! This amazing discovery was written about by Rotten Tomatoes, which carefully analyzed Cruise's filmography and even calculated how much the actor ran in each film. It turns out that Cruise "has run a little over 24,000 feet [7.3 kilometers] on screen in 37 years."
3. These are not toys for you. 
Although he once almost played Iron Man, Tom Cruise has yet to appear in a comic book movie. And if it ever appears, the creators will have a problem with merchandise.
The fact is that Cruise prohibits companies from using his appearance for products such as, for example, collectible figurines. The same goes for video games, by the way. Which is extremely sad for fans who want to play as their favorite character.
4. Higher calling 
Before becoming a Scientologist, as a young man Cruise considered joining the ranks of the priests of the Catholic Church in Cincinnati. As his pal Shane Dempler told the Daily Mail, they "thought priests led a great lifestyle."
But everything went awry when the friends decided to borrow alcohol from the monks and pulled off their own “impossible mission”: one of them stole the booze and threw it out the window while the other stood below at the ready. The management found out about this trick, and Cruz was immediately thrown out. However, it was the theater club at St. Francis Seminary School that aroused his interest in acting.
5. Young in body and soul 
In the film “Operation Valkyrie” (2008), Tom Cruise plays an unusually dark role for his role - a Nazi colonel who is preparing an assassination attempt on Hitler. The intense drama was overshadowed by a dispute... about the actor's ideal buttocks. Viewers decided that Cruise used false buttocks, because in one of the scenes the actor’s buttocks looked too perfect, although at that time he was already well over forty. Tom Cruise denied all the rumors and said that he did not use pads.
6. Tom Cruise Day in Japan 
As Will Smith noted in his memoirs, Tom Cruise is diligently earning his title as a global film icon. And one country loved his visits so much that the authorities decided to devote a day off to him. Cruise "has visited Japan more often than any other Hollywood star, making him the first to have his own holiday in the country," CheatSheet writes.
7. Whoever didn’t hide, it’s not my fault! 
Cruise is famous for his infectious enthusiasm, and at times he seems like just an overgrown child. To the point that he invites other adults to play with him. In 2015, actress and former Scientologist Leah Remini described in her memoirs an incident when Cruise gathered guests at his home and invited them to play hide and seek. Remini refused, but Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith took part in the fun.
8. An apple from an apple tree... 
How to please your beloved parent on Mother's Day? Make her skydive, of course! That's exactly what happened when Tom Cruise invited his mother Mary Lee to Florida, where he was filming Days of Thunder (1990).
“I didn’t warn her,” the actor said on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” in 2018. “I just said, ‘Come with me, mom.’” How did she react to this extreme idea? According to Cruise, she simply said, “Okay, honey. Let's do it".
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