Tom Cruise receives the honorary Golden Palm
French actor Tom Cruise was awarded the honorary Palme d’Or by the Cannes Film Festival organizers after the premiere of “Top Gun: Maverick”.
According to AP, Tom Cruise andTop Gun: Maverick actors such as Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm and Glen Powell arrived at the film festival on May 18 to attend the premiere. Pierre Lescure – event chairman – suddenly announced to award the actor the honorary Palme d’Or, for those who have made special contributions to cinema but have not yet won at Cannes.
Tom Cruise received the honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival 2022. Photo: AFP
The organizers released a video reviewing the roles that made Tom Cruise famous to honor him. The actor also spoke and gave an interview about his passion for cinema. When asked why he risked doing his own action scenes, Cruise replied: “People never asked Gene Kelly to dance in his movies.”
Aerobatic aircraft welcomes Tom Cruise to Cannes 2022. Video: LeHuffPost
The actor arrived at the event by car, not by helicopter like the premiere in San Diego (USA) earlier this month. Cruise spent a few minutes taking photos and signing autographs for fans before stepping onto the red carpet. Cannes Film Festival is part of the promotional tour of the film crew Top Gun: Maverick . The work is only for display, not for competition. The audience spent five minutes standing and applauding after watching the film. The next destination of the crew is London, England.
Trailer “Top Gun: Maverick”. Video: CGV
Top Gun: Maverick is one of the Hollywood movies most heavily affected by Covid-19, having to delay its theatrical release nearly two years. Prolonged production stages caused the project to overspend. In the film, Tom Cruise continues to play pilot Pete Mitchel as in the first part released 35 years ago. Mitchel enters a new mission after meeting Bradley (Miles Teller) – the son of his late friend. The work will be released in the US on May 27, coinciding with Memorial Day.
Tom Cruise was born in 1962, is 1.7 m tall and weighs about 68 kg. When he first started acting, he was often teased because of his modest height . However, thanks to his scientific exercise regime, the actor is known as “ageless” in Hollywood, his appearance does not change much over time. He has acted in Mission Impossible , The Mummy, Jack Reacher 2: Never Go Back… The actor does not use social networks and rarely shares about his personal life since his noisy divorce with Katie Holmes in 2012. .
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