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At Cannes this year, his adoring audience hanging on his every A-list word, Tom Cruise, the 59-year-old Hollywood icon, is in dreamland, waxing lyrical about the magic of cinema. ‘I love my audience.
I make movies for audiences… I make movies for the big screen,’ the Top Gun: Maverick star says, pearly whites glittering like a French Sun King in a slick tux. There’s an honorary Palme D’Or (poor Tom has never won an Oscar), a six-minute standing ovation, tears (Cruise’s, ours), fireworks, glossy co-stars in Louis Vuitton and tangerine suits, a military fly-by trailing coloured smoke. When you’re Tom Cruise, they don’t simply roll out a red carpet, they paint the sky in red, white and blue.
