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(details on where the pictures are from bellow, putting a cut so the post isn't too annoyingly long)

first three are from edge of tomorrow,

can't remember where the fourth is from (I want to say jack reacher or one of the mission impossibles....?),

next two are from mission Impossible: rogue nation,

then mission impossible: dead reckoning,

Video is from the light the fuse podcast (4, after it became the official podcast for MI, here minutes 20:25 - 20:55)

Last 6 are from the trailer for mission impossible: the final reckoning (I know the last one isn't the same thing...but it feels relavent)

("the writer's barely-disguised fetish” and the fetish is tom cruise, *specifically*, in bondage 🤨)

(I swear he's tied up in all bar like one of the movies tom and mcq have made together)

(I think I might even be missing some)

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This video is about how McQ first met Tom and how their special relationship began.

Has McQ ever mentioned whether he was originally a fan of Tom and his films?

It’s fascinating that he got upset over a bit of casual gossip at a restaurant and ended up requesting a meeting, something he said he had never done in his life.

Paula Wagner had looked after Tom for 25 years, and she chose McQ to take her place, and he said yes to such a difficult offer.

I’m truly grateful that such kind, sincere, and brilliant people like Paula and McQ have been there to support him.

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TOM CRUISE SINGING IN FILM Risky Business (1983) dir. Paul Brickman Top Gun (1986) dir. Tony Scott Cocktail (1988) dir. Roger Donaldson Far and Away (1992) dir. Ron Howard Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) dir. Neil Jordan Jerry Maguire (1996) dir. Cameron Crowe Magnolia (1999) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson War of the Worlds (2005) dir. Steven Spielberg Rock of Ages (2012) dir. Adam Shankman

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birds of a feather

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Tom and McQ 2008-2022

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Tom is so smoll. he can just bury his face in McQ’s shoulder and melt into his arms. 🥹❤️

McQ being emotional + that hug 😭

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His eyes are like the universe.

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Tom Cruise spotted at F1 European Premiere, June 23 2025

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As a late fan, there’s so much of their story I need to catch up on.

‘I don’t know the man you’re judging, and I don’t judge the man I know.’

It’s making me emotional. 🥹

“Tom does not come without his share of controversy, and that’s an element of these movies. And what I’ve watched happen over the course of 3 of these movies is there’s a segment of the audience that prefers to look at the controversy rather than the movie. And I have felt that segment of the audience just eventually look at it and go: ‘alright, fine, just alright, I come to the damn movie’, you know, and they’ve reconciled. I feel that, I feel that in this movie. This is the first time of the 9 movies in 12 years where I really feel the wind in our back. We, Tom and I, are always a little bit… we’re a little bit the underdog. […] And I have people ask me all the time. They have their preconceived notions about Tom, and they come up, and you know. I’ve been confronted about stuff, and I’m just like: ‘I don’t know the man you’re judging and I don’t judge the man I know.’ I’m very comfortable, in terms of my understanding of this man’s character. And if I had doubts about this man’s character, I wouldn’t have made 9 movies with him. I wouldn’t have made 2.”

— Christopher McQuarrie on E78 of The Big Picture (July 2018)

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Their story feels just like a movie.

As a fan of Tom Cruse, I feel so reassured knowing McQ is by his side.

Whether professionally or personally, I truly hope this special friendship and partnership lasts a lifetime.🙏

What really gets me about Chris and Tom is just how differently things could have been.

McQ was in director jail, couldn't make anything work and was about to give up on Hollywood when he heard someone talk shit about Tom and for some reason his first thought was "no way!". After hearing that, he decided to meet Tom in person going through great lenghts to do so.

This could have easily been the case of McQ hearing that and being like "oh" and moved on with his life.

Tom - who went through directors like no else's business and whose career was at a all time low - talked to him for mere hours and just knew that he'd spend the rest of his life doing movies with him.

Later, McQ would attribute them meeting to sheer coincidence or an accident, and sure him listening to that person talk shit about Tom could have been a coincidence (or not, who knows?), but he chose to go to that meeting because he didn't like to hear someone talk shit about a man he didn't even know yet.

People joke Tom knew instantly while it took McQ a while to figure it out, but I do think that those who think that aren't wrong. I can a see a world where Mr. "Suffers from imposter syndrome" wouldn't go down as quietly as Tom would.

The profession is noticeable.

It is important to note that McQ has stated that his relationship with Tom isn't built on them feeling like they owe each other anything. Everything they've done was because they wanted it to.

McQ coming back after Rogue Nation was because he wanted it to. He chalked it up to Tom being persuasive, but we all know the truth. Tom would understand if McQ wanted to give the script to another director, McQ was the one that chose to stay even when he knew that would mean being stressed out and sleep deprived for years to come.

However, we see McQ going from treating Tom like his own thing and feeling like an outsider, to him saying that they were sort of outsiders in the industry speaks levels to the growing comfort they felt with each other. This is proven by the fact that when Tom and Chris talk, they rarely say "I". Is always "we". "We decided on the ending", "we decided to do this", "we chose this route". Even if is writing, which is Chris' thing, he rarely says "I".

McQ went from having preconceived notions of Tom to working with him like no else's business, to understanding him in a level we have yet to see any other director understand Tom. Case in point, we just had Kosinski implying Tom doesn't know his own limits meanwhile Chris takes every chance he gets to talk about how Tom does this for the audiences.

I will always stand by that their partnership is more than other actors and directors partnerships we have.

It is cute that they call each other creative soulmates, it is cute that Chris can't seem to be able to say no to Tom, it is cute that these two don't need to say anything to each other because they know each other so well they can tell what the other is thinking.

But it is more than that by now. And you can absolutely tell. Chris literally implied he'd rather be in a helicopter with Tom in the event of something going wrong, has literally suggested he'd rather die with him, those are some heavy implications to make from a man with a wife and two daughters, if you ask me.

So yeah, all of this all thanks to that random person that was talking shit about Tom. I wonder if they know they're the reason they met? Honestly, I'm like: "well screw you for saying shit about him but also THANK YOU!"

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I wonder how long it’s been since they last saw each other. They’re so excited and happy.

Actually, I know they’re always like this. 😆

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doodles of my parents 🤧

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no one will believe me when i say i drew that without ever seeing the pic on the left

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Random pics of Tom and McQ

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Tom's just extremely cute and adorable right here 🥰🥰😍

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Twenty days of Mission: Impossible 2

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 (2000) dir. John Woo

Tom Cruise’s then-wife Nicole Kidman suggested Thandie Newton (Kidman’s co-star in Flirting (1991) as the love interest for Ethan Hunt. She was cast before the script was written.

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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL dir. Brad Bird