Tom Cruise is currently traveling to various places, promoting his new Mission Impossible movie. He is obviously very excited about it and he is using a very positive strategy in his promotion. This is one of the reasons Cruise is so successful.
Someone like Rachel Zegler from the awful Snow White remake could learn some serious lessons from Cruise. Watch this:
Texas, we can’t wait to see you May 22. pic.twitter.com/KCGLFMdSug
— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) May 8, 2025
While promoting the movie in South Korea, a journalist tried to bait Tom Cruise into talking about the Trump tariffs and he quietly and expertly shut her down. Cruise may have said some crazy things over the years, but this moment showed why he is one of the last real movie stars.
From the Hollywood Reporter:
Tom Cruise Shuts Down Tariffs Talk at ‘Mission: Impossible’ Press Event: “We’d Rather Answer Questions About the Movie”
Tom Cruise ensured questions at a recent press event in Seoul for Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning were focused on the film itself.
On Thursday, Cruise and his Mission: Impossible co-stars and director Christopher McQuarrie, were promoting the upcoming final movie in the action franchise. However, when a reporter asked about President Donald Trump‘s proposed tariffs on movies shot outside of the U.S. and the extent to which the Paramount film, which was shot around the world, would be affected by it, Cruise wanted to move past that.
“I’d like to ask this question to anybody who’s up for it. I watched this film and I saw that it was filmed in many different locations around the world, including Africa,” the reporter said, according to an onstage translator. “Of course, we all are aware of the tariffs that President Trump has been imposing on overseas productions and films. So, is this particular movie under that tariff? And how much of the film was shot overseas?”
Cruise replied, telling the moderator, off-mic, “We’d rather answer questions about the movie. Thank you.”
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There are so many people in Hollywood who would not have been able to resist that chance to get on a soapbox and start voicing their stupid, liberal opinions about Trump. Cruise was extremely smart to shut down the question and handled it very well. Good for him.
