The story behind Tom Cruise and the 20 -year quarrel of Steven Spielberg

The actor and the director worked together and then fell. Here's why.


At the beginning of the 2000's, Tom Cruise And Steven Spielberg First collaboration, Minority report , was a success, so the actor and the director joined again a few years later for the years 2005 War of the Worlds . There is a good chance that you remember something about the promotional tour of this film, even if you do not make it.

It was by promoting War of the Worlds This cruise jumped from top to bottom Oprah Winfrey Sofa proclaiming her love for her girlfriend then Katie Holmes . He also promoted the film when he had his famous interview with Today host Matt Lauer , the appellant "Glib", heading on a diatribe on psychiatry and criticizing Brooke Shields To take anti-depressions to treat postpartum depression.

All of this is preparing the field for Cruise and Spielberg said that Falling Out, who was recently mentioned in the news following the two gathered during the nominees at the Oscars. Read the rest to discover the sometimes contained history of the stars and what may have ended their quarrel.

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Spielberg would have estimated that Cruise's behavior overshadowed the film.

Since the Cruise talk shows occurred during the War of the Worlds Press Tour, Spielberg would have thought that The actor overshadowed the film , as indicated by The Mercury News . A 2006 Slate article reports that Spielberg blame the cruise For the film which does not earn more money at the box office. That said, the film was extremely successful and made more than $ 600 million worldwide.

We also divided on Scientology.

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Cruise's crusade against psychiatry and related drugs are easily linked to its religion, because Scientology rejects and denounces the field of psychiatry. Page six reported ( via The New Yorker ) that Spielberg did not agree with the comments that Cruise made on the ritalin of the medicine of the ADHD and also said that the director was disturbed that the movie star "played more the scientology than the film during the press interviews ". AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Further away, The mirror reported that Michael Ovitz , a former Cruise's agent, said the actor Configure a stand to try to convert people in Scientology on the set of War of the Worlds .

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Cruise denied being behind a manifestation of Scientology.

Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg at a
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A 2007 Vanity The piece notes that Spielberg would have told Cruise The name of a doctor, who had prescribed drugs to a parent. Later, the doctor's office was staked by Scientologists opposing the prescription of psychiatric drugs. According to Slate, "Cruise would have assured Spielberg that he was not behind this incident, he made the director furious and (perhaps more important) Kate Capshaw , also known as Ms. Spielberg. ""

They seem to be on good terms now.

(Warning: the video above contains an explicit language.) We do not know what happened exactly between Spielberg and Cruise - and how long resentments may have been held - but both recently reunited When lunching nominees at the Oscars. As indicated by Variety , a video that circulated after the February 13 event watch Spielberg praising Cruise for Top Gun: Maverick , which has made more than a billion dollars around the world. It was only the second film to be made as much money since the start of the Pandemic Covid-19. (The other was Spider-man: not from the way to the house .)

"You have saved Hollywood [Expaletive] and you may have saved theatrical distribution," Spielberg told Cruise in the video. "Seriously, Top Gun: Maverick Could have saved the whole theatrical industry. ""

Both Top Gun: Maverick and Spielberg's film, Fabelmans , are nominated for the best Oscar film this year, where the two will probably meet.


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