Tom Cruise's Unexpected 'Jerry Maguire' Reunion at Cannes
Tom Cruise has been busy at the Cannes Film Festival promoting Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, but the red carpet premiere had an unexpected Jerry Maguire reunion.
Cruise received a 1996 Oscar nomination for the role of a slick sports agent who gets fired after writing a company-wide memo that goes against everything in his industry. Jerry had to rebuild his life and his roster of talent, banking on one client, Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) to make it happen.
Almost 30 years later, the two actors found themselves in the same place at the same time. The men wrapped their arms around each other and shared wide smiles for the photographers. They were also spotted animatedly speaking with each other while shaking hands.
Cruise and Gooding's acting history started in 1992 when they worked on A Few Good Men, but their careers haven't crossed paths as of late. Gooding won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Jerry Maguire, but he's been mired in sexual assault claims over the last few years.
He settled a lawsuit in 2020 with a woman who accused him of rape and pleaded guilty to a sexual harassment charge in a sexual assault case in 2022. Gooding is in Cannes to mount his comeback tour with two films, Quantum Supremacy and A Line of Fire, per Page Six.
Gooding told Extra in August 2024 that he was taking "accountability" for his actions.
'When people interpret what's going on with you or what you're being exposed to, you have to make sure that you know your intention,' Gooding explained. 'You have to be accountable for your own actions, and I have been. I have been. People have spoken positive and negative, but I can't control that.'
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