Tom Cruise has accumulated almost as many wholesome celebrity stories as he has stories about him risking his life for a stunt. There is the famous Christmas cake. Rosie O'Donnell says he has remembered her birthday for more than 25 years. He regularly uses social media to hype other filmmakers' movies and keep people going to theaters. I even recently learned that Millie Bobby Brown considers him a dear friend and has flown his helicopter. The guy apparently keeps a very interesting contact list. Still, Dakota Fanning's story may have all of those beat.
During a new appearance on Happy Sad Confused, the former child star confirmed that Cruise is still carrying on the birthday tradition they started after making War of the Worlds more than 20 years ago. The exchange was shared on Josh Horowitz's Instagram, and the whole thing somehow gets sweeter once Fanning explains why the Mission: Impossible star refuses to let the tradition of buying her shoes die. She said:
