This evening in prime time on M6 will be broadcast the first part of the now saga Top Gun. The opportunity to revisit the legend Tom Cruise in the role that brought him to the world’s attention during the 1980s. Since his success story has not weakened: Numerous collaborations with the most prestigious directors in the industry (Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Brian de Palma, etc.), large fees (290 million dollars for Impossible mission) and finally multiple amorous conquests. We will remember in particular his mythical couple with the one who was his partner in Vanilla SkyPenelope Cruz…
Indeed, it is on the set of the adaptation of the Spanish film Open your eyes that the actor from Syracuse in the United States falls in love with the beautiful Spanish while he is still married at the time with Nicole Kidman. A situation that does not worry the actress since she does not envisage a relationship with a playing partner.I’ve never fallen in love with anyone I work with. It was always after. If something becomes friendship, then maybe months later it becomes something else, but you can never tell. It’s still a mystery” she confided a few years later.
The handsome Tom took his troubles patiently and it was in 2001, shortly after his divorce from the Australian, that he took action. Penelope and him then appear for the first time hand in hand in Los Angeles during the preview of Captain Corelli, a feature film where the Iberian actress shares the poster with Nicolas Cage.
So begins Hollywood’s most amazing couple. A romance that comes to an abrupt end three years later in 2004. For what reason? Once again, Tom Cruise is overtaken by his dubious links with the Church of Scientology (legal in the United States but considered a sect in France). Very intrusive, the religious organization ends up putting the actress through an ordeal, who decides to say stop. Devastated, Tom Cruise finds love shortly in the arms of Katie Holmes, whom he will marry and divorce after the birth of their daughter Suri. Penélope Cruz got married in 2010 to Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem.
Top Gun in prime time on M6 this Thursday, May 19.