Cruise and Holmes stood in a darkened area near the bathrooms. And he and Katie were extremely touchy-feely. He was kissing her. Everything they do in public is over-the-top. But there was practically no audience. There were only five people waiting for the bathroom. Soon, though, the make-out session started to take on a different complexion.
Who goes out and has a make-out session with their wife? I mean, really. It felt like a poorly directed love scene. By the end, I was just confused. M:I 5—Holmes Protocol. There were reports of disposable cell phones, fired security staff and publicists, a secretly rented apartment in a strategic jurisdiction. Right there in the newspapers every day, plain to see, were the vindicating photographs of a reborn Holmes, smile back on her face, bounce back in her step, as she went about her new life right here in New York City, happy at last.
In a stroke, Holmes had rebooted the Mission: Impossible franchise with a female lead—now she was the one dropping silently on a wire into a room bristling with retinal scanners and motion detectors. In the first tent-pole role of her career, she had hit all her marks and won the summer. But as the theater lights came back on, something felt slightly off—the story too scripted; surely it concealed a more complicated human truth. The tabloid media have long been seen as the main shapers of these narratives—but that view under-weights the creative input of the stars themselves, who, by the nature of their vocation and also concern for their own tiny little zones of privacy, have always been comfortable with a high level of falsehood in the public presentation of their romantic lives.
TomKat took the phenomenon to a new level, making for the richest, most layered and indeterminate story of celebrity couple-dom ever told.
The most basic reason for this is Cruise. Even his religion, Scientology, boasts a cinematic good-versus-evil morality. His whole life is performative. Because Cruise, for all his wealth and blinding, dimpled smile, has a whole wagon train of baggage. At the heart of this story, as of all Cruise stories, is the central Cruisean mystery, the conundrum of his thought-policing religion, Scientology, and the degree to which he is in its grip.
Is Cruise really the short-circuited Scientology android he appeared to be when he was first courting Holmes? A prevailing unified field theory of the Cruise-iverse—one that purports to explain everything from his PR meltdown seven years ago to his oddly theatrical relationships to the incessant rumors about his sexuality—is that everything flows out of his wacky religion.
But Holmes complicated this theory. Why would a year-old actress with a healthy career—Catholic, no less—fall for someone like that? Part II. Holmes, who only the previous month had broken off her engagement to the actor Chris Klein, was living in New York and flew to L. It was a beat sheet for a Nickelodeon special.
Cruise operates at a level of bludgeoning, on-the-nose symbolism, and for his first date with Holmes, he took her on a high-speed motorcycle ride to Santa Monica. His preferred flowers to give were red roses.
Though twice-divorced, Cruise waited only two months to propose marriage, and he did so in Paris, on top of the Eiffel Tower, after dropping to one knee and presenting Holmes with a five-carat yellow-solitaire-diamond ring. Cruise then arranged a press conference to disseminate the news.
But the TomKat plot quickly threatened to go off-genre. Barely a month after meeting Holmes, Cruise made the now infamous appearance on Oprah , where he jumped on the sofa, pumped his fists, and otherwise proclaimed how gaga he was about his new girlfriend. Even before the engagement, Holmes converted to Scientology.
According to the suit obtained by ABCNews. In addition to the July report, the lawsuit references an Oct. Cruise said that he saw his daughter a total number of 10 days between June and Thanksgiving of Cruise writes in his court filings that he was working overseas on two films at the time, but says that he never cut Suri out of his life, "whether physically, emotionally, financially or otherwise.
Holmes brought her daughter with her to South Africa and the pair were spotted together in Cape Town last month, according to a report in Us Weekly magazine. Bauer Publishing filed court documents of its own in the case, writing that, at the time of publishing, Cruise had not seen his daughter in 44 days.
The company claims Cruise was out at clubs and bars and vacationing, when he could have been with his daughter. If Cruise prevails in his lawsuit, it would mark the first time the actor has successfully sued tabloids for stories involving his children, who, in addition to Suri, include a son and daughter with actress Nicole Kidman.
ABC News reached out to representatives for both Cruise and Holmes, but neither immediately responded. As Extra reported, Cruise and Holmes began dating in In June go that year, the former "Dawson's Creek" star revealed that she and Cruise were engaged and she was converting to Scientology. Four months later, in October , Holmes announced that she was pregnant with her first child.
In April , the pair welcomed their baby daughter Suri and tied the knot in an Italian wedding ceremony seven months later. According to InStyle , both Holmes and Cruise have remained tight-lipped about the exact reasoning behind their divorce.
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