What’s a mega-star to do? Tom Cruise is finding himself in the middle of a very, very bad week. Perhaps the worst he’s had since he shot to mega-fame in Risky Business. I mean, a box office flop (Rock of Ages) that was supposed to show off his range, a divorce from his THIRD wife (Katie Holmes), her suing for sole custody of their daughter (Cruise’s lone biological child), being the most famous member of the world’s least popular religion, and even getting called out by Rupert Murdoch on Twitter. When Rupert Murdoch, aka The Devil, shits on you, you can’t say things are going well.
Sure, you could argue that his divorce to Nicole Kidman was probably more difficult (and less expected) for Cruise, but at that time he was a legitimate, bona-fide mega-star who still could get any project he wanted made and released. Right now is one of Cruise’s most vulnerable career periods to date, and if Katie goes on the record talking about weird he is (half the internet thinks he’s gay, half thinks he’s a Scientology nutcase), this could realllllly hurt.
And I’m hoping that doesn’t happen. Whether you like Tom Cruise as a person or not (and honestly, who can say they really know him as a person? the guy is so guarded, I doubt even Katie does), you have to admit his track record at making good movies is incredible. He’s never been one of the mega-stars who just wanted to cash a paycheck, he’s very hands-on in the process, and almost always pushes forward winners, from excellent blockbusters like Minority Report and War of the Worlds to edgier films like Magnolia and Collateral (my two personal favorites).
Anyway, the world is having a lot of fun with Cruise with week…and probably the next after it, but let’s not forget that they said he was on the right track scaling the Burj Khalif in Mission Impossible 4. After all, the man has been making movies for longer than I’ve been born, and I don’t think he’s going anywhere.