Cannes Day 2: Tom Cruise and ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Celebrate the Big Screen Experience
thewrap.comOver 40 years later, Cruise hasn’t stopped running, on screen or head-first into every public appearance to celebrate how much he loves the movies.
And he found a good audience when he was given a career retrospective on Wednesday ahead of the Cannes premiere of “Top Gun: Maverick,” taking the moment to champion the theatrical experience and explain what makes a movie that can only be seen on the big screen.
When Cruise was asked if he ever considered moving “Maverick” to streaming after it was delayed for nearly two years during the pandemic, he replied, “Never gonna happen.” And he further boasted when asked why he chooses to do his own stunts, he wryly said that no one would dare ask Gene Kelly why he performed all his own dances.“There’s a very specific way to make a movie for the big screen.
I know where they go after that and that’s fine,” he said. “I know people want that [big-screen] experience. I want other filmmakers to have that experience.” After looking the part during the Cannes photo call in which Cruise appeared with “Top Gun: Maverick” co-stars Jennifer Connolly and Miles Teller as well as producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Cruise made his way to the Debussy theater stage for the career retrospective conversation with Didier Allouch and where he was presented with an honorary Palme d’Or.
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