Tom Cruise is officially returning to Australia later this year.
The 60-year-old Top Gun star will jet to Sydney for a July 3 premiere of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, it was announced this morning.
Director Chris McQuarrie will also be attending the premiere, as well as select cast members – with the full cast list of the film including Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff and more.
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Tom Cruise is officially coming to Sydney, Australia in July. (Getty)
Cruise, over the years, has been no stranger to the land Down Under – he was married to Nicole Kidman, 55, for 11 years, after all.
Notably, Cruise – who was briefly involved with Mission: Impossible co-star Atwell on-off until July 2022 – actually had an enduringly viral moment with Australian reporter Peter Overton.
Overton, who anchors Nine’s major nightly news bulletin, interviewed Cruise in 2005 for a special 60 Minutes report – it took a tense turn, and is now probably the most well-known interviews with Cruise around the world.
“Tom, staring me down,” Overton reflected years later during an interview with 9Honey.
“That was a hell of an interview, I’ll never forget it,” he added with a laugh.
During the interview, Overton asked Cruise, who was promoting his film War Of The Worlds at the time, questions about his co-parenting relationship with Kidman.
The former couple had finalised their divorce four years prior at the time, and while they were together, they had adopted two children: Daughter Bella, now 30, and son Connor, now 28.
The actor scolded Overton, calling him “out of line” and telling him, “Put your manners back in.”
“I held my own and I was happy about that. I didn’t change, that’s who I am. I thought they were fair questions,” Overton later said.
“You know what, I hold no ill will towards Tom Cruise … it was just one of those interviews that perhaps didn’t pan out as everyone thought it would.”
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is set to premiere in Australian cinemas on July 13.
