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Tom Cruise Sneaks Into Theaters To See Every Movie That Comes Out
While promoting Top Gun: Maverick at the Cannes Film Festival, Tom Cruise reveals that he tries to see every new movie incognito in theaters.

Tom Cruise Sneaks Into Theaters To See Every Movie That Comes Out

Top Gun: Maverick star Tom Cruise reveals that he dresses incognito and sneaks into theaters to watch every new movie. Maverick is a many-years-later follow-up to the actor’s 1986 hit Top Gun, in which he stars as the hotshot fighter pilot Maverick. The new film sees the character being recruited to train a new team of top pilots, including Rooster (Miles Teller), the son of a fallen comrade who resents Maverick for his father’s death. The cast of the film, which is coming to theaters soon on May 27, 2022, also includes Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, and Val Kilmer returning as Iceman.

Top Gun was a hit from very early in his career, before Cruise began starring in the Mission: Impossible franchise. As each entry of that series progressed, he became more and more immersed in performing his character Ethan Hunt’s radical, jaw-dropping stunts himself. This included hanging onto the side of a plane mid-flight and sliding down the outside of the Burj Khalifa, which is the tallest building in the world. Cruise has taken this methodology to Top Gun: Maverick, which will feature the star actually piloting the plane he flies onscreen. He also insisted that his castmates receive training so they were able to perform challenging stunts properly, though stunt pilots were used for the other Top Gun cast members when necessary.

Although Vulture‘s coverage of Cruise’s Top Gun press performance at Cannes highlights how boring it has been, he did drop a majorly intriguing statement during the film festival. Not only does he put his all into making movies, he puts his all into watching them as well. During a Top Gun event, he revealed that he tries to sneak into the theater to see every new movie that comes out, saying “I put on my cap and I sit in the audience.

This revelation also ties into Tom Cruise’s proven love of the theatrical experience. In addition to filming a video blasting television motion smoothing in 2018, he also shared a video of himself putting on a mask to go see Christopher Nolan’s film Tenet in theaters in August 2020. Whether or not he truly means that he sees “every” film is up to interpretation, but it’s clear that the experience of the cinema is deeply important to him.

This news is delightful on its own terms, but it also lends a new element of intrigue to the moviegoing experience. Tom Cruise’s whereabouts are frequently reported, so anyone going to the movies in a town where he’s currently filming or staying should be on high alert for anyone in a ballcap trying not to be noticed. It might just be the Top Gun: Maverick star himself enjoying the show.