Steven Spielberg AND Tom Cruise They met the day before yesterday at the traditional Oscar’ Luncheon, the lunch that honors the nominees. Now it has emerged that, when they met in the lounge of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, they gave each other a big hug and the director praised the actor for saving the film industry with the success of Top Gun: nonconformist.
“You saved Hollywood’s ass and maybe the entire film distribution industry.”, said Spielberg, which is nominated for the best film of the year and with six other nominations The Fabelmans. In turn, the film Cruise stars in also appears in the same category and adds six nominations.
The dialogue between the two was uploaded to Instagram by director Kartiki Gonsalves, nominated for Best Documentary Short, for Who can say no to baby elephants!. as seen, cruise blushed.
Before saying goodbye, Spielberg continued, “Really! Top Gun: nonconformist maybe it saved the entire film industry.”
The presence of Tom Cruise was one of the highlights of the meeting, and not only Spielberg came over to greet him: Jamie Lee Curtis, Guillermo del Toro, Brendan Gleeson, Paul Mescal, Baz Luhrmann, Michelle Yeoh, Austin Butler and up to Ricardo Darin.
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Source: Clarin
