Tom Cruise is one of Hollywood’s biggest icons. His career spans decades and includes many blockbuster movies, from Days of Thunder to Mission: Impossible. It’s almost fitting that Cruise should be the star responsible for the return of major Hollywood movies — since his 2022 action film Top Gun: Maverick is widely credited with doing just that. Even the iconic director Steven Spielberg is grateful to Cruise for what the actor did for the film industry, as he recently told the star at an exclusive Hollywood party.
Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise have a complicated history
Spielberg and Cruise have worked together on more than one occasion. In 2002, the two teamed up for the action thriller Minority Report. Cruise was at the height of his stardom at the time, and Spielberg was known as one of the greatest directors in Hollywood. Minority Report was a hit, and the pair went on to work together again three years later on War of the Worlds.
