It is, of course, impossible to tell Tom Cruise what to do.
He is one of the most powerful people in Hollywood and one of the very few true movie stars we have left.
He has remained steadfastly loyal to theatrical releases while stars of a similar caliber have played it safer with prestige TV and Netflix originals.
He has embarked on a one-man mission to Save the Movies ever since he went to see Tenet in 2020, an absurdly ambitious goal that, with Top Gun: Maverick, he might have actually achieved.
And, as someone who insists upon doing his own ludicrously dangerous stunts in the Mission: Impossible series, he has spent the last 25 years playing chicken with God and winning.
If he wants to spend the rest of his career heroically sprinting through one death-defying action sequence after another, that’s exactly what he’ll do, and it’s hard…
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