Tom Cruise running in movies: two things you might not know about the actor's careers on the big screen
Seeing Tom Cruise running in movies is now a tradition. Rare is to see a film of the actor in which he does not do a sprint. Whether in the middle of a crowded avenue, in the middle of the desert or on the rooftops of some city, in any self-respecting Tom Cruise movie you cannot miss a race.
But that Tom Cruise runs so much in the movies is not a coincidence far from it, and that in general he does it alone either. And there are two very significant things about Cruise's careers that maybe you didn't know and that are going to surprise you.
The more Tom Cruise runs in the movies, the more money he makes at the box office. It seems impossible, but it is not. The Rotten Tomatoes website analyzed the actor's film career and found that the more meters traveled, the better the film's grade got and the more money it raised.
For example, if we see Tom Cruise running more than 301 meters in his films, they usually collect about 540 million dollars and achieve 71% critical approval. Examples of this are The Mummy (2017), Mission Impossible: Secret Nation (2015) or Minority Report (2002).
However, if Cruise runs less or does not run at all, the film collects less. This was the case with Magnolia, Lions for Lambs, Tropic Thunder or Valkiria, which on average made about 153 million dollars at the box office and had on average less than 64% approval (which is still very good, of course).
If you see Tom Cruise running in the movies, he always does it alone
Do a Mission Impossible marathon and you will find out. When Cruise runs he runs alone, never with a co-star next to him. The only exceptions have been Cobbie Smulders in Jack Reacher 2 and Annabelle Wallis in The Mummy.
In fact, in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Wallis confirmed this detail saying that he had to prove to Cruise that he could really run at his same speed, and the actor, seeing that Wallis was a good runner, added some scenes so that the two appear sprinting.
But usually that is not what we usually see, and it seems that there is a kind of rule by which Tom Cruise runs alone since he has a physical preparation such that his companions cannot keep up with him (or that is the theory). So the scene is better with the actor running at full speed alone and the others probably riding a car or motorcycle.
For a reason Tom Cruise is the biggest action star in Hollywood.
