31 MTV created an award for him.
In 2005, Cruise accepted the first-ever Generation Award—given to “an artist who has shown us a variety of impressive roles, a personal and professional flair, and of course, an awesome level of talent”—at the MTV Movie Awards.
32 He’s a pamphlet passer.
During the filming of the 2005 remake of War of the Worlds, Cruise stayed busy between takes by handing out flyers and information packets about the Church of Scientology from a tent that he set up just outside the set.
33 He doesn’t see his daughter nearly as much as you probably think he does.
Though it’s been reported recently that Cruise is leaving the clutches of Scientology to be with his family (namely, his daughter Suri, pictured above), he didn’t always put his family first in matters of the church. After it was reported that Cruise was suing In Touch for $50 million over a cover story claiming he “abandoned” Suri, a court deposition revealed that he had in fact not seen her in over 100 days.
34 The church set up his first date with Katie Holmes.
According to Vanity Fair, the Church of Scientology set up the first date between Cruise and Holmes. In fact, the church allegedly held auditions for years in order to find “Kidman’s replacement.”
35 The author of Interview with a Vampire once apologized to him in the most public way imaginable.
When the casting for the 1994 big-screen adaptation of her book, Interview with a Vampire, was announced, Anne Rice publicly criticized Cruise in the role of Lestat, claiming that his performance would be nothing short of mediocre. However, after she saw the film, she changed her tune, and purchased a two-page ad in Daily Variety for a cool sum of $7,740 to apologize to Cruise. The ad stated that, “from the moment he appeared, Tom was Lestat for me.”
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