Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise is passionate about the cinematic experience, particularly in theaters, with the Top Gun: Maverick star revealing that he frequently puts on a simple disguise in order to see every movie that comes out. Every. Single. One. In a report courtesy of Vulture, which largely discusses how dull Cruise has apparently been at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, it's revealed that the star of Mission: Impossible completes the seemingly impossible task of seeing every movie that is released in theaters. Yes, presumably even Morbius.

Cruise revealed that he goes incognito to the theater saying, “I put on my cap and I sit in the audience.” Now, whether Tom Cruise actually endeavors to see every single movie that hits the big screen is open to debate. But, if anyone can do it, then it’s probably Tom Cruise.

Tom Cruise has not been shy about vocalizing his love for releasing movies on the silver screen, with the actor adamant that the upcoming legacy sequel Top Gun: Maverick would not be released via streaming. Not so long as he draws breathe, anyway. “No, they wouldn’t — that’s not gonna happen, ever,” the actor said, no doubt smiling with his mouth but not his eyes. “That is never gonna happen. Ever. That is never gonna happen. No.”

This is far from the first time that Cruise has addressed the very suggestion of a streaming release for Top Gun: Maverick with such assertion. “That was not going to happen ever,” Cruise said of a streaming release for the long-awaited sequel last week. “I make movies for the big screen.” The actor even went so far as to contact theater owners and assure them that he will continue to fight for them. “I’ve spent a lot of time with theater owners. The people that serve the popcorn, the ones who make this [happen]," he said, before adding that he called them to say, "Please, I know what you’re going through. Just know we are making Mission: Impossible and Top Gun is coming out.”

Top Gun: Maverick Will Land in Theaters This Week

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Top Gun: Maverick will pick up after more than thirty years since the release of the first Top Gun. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell has been of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators for just as long and feels he is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw, call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose.”

Directed by Joseph Kosinski and written by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie, from a story conceived by Peter Craig and Justin Marks, Top Gun: Maverick is the sequel to the 1986 hit Top Gun and stars Tom Cruise as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, alongside Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer.

Top Gun: Maverick is scheduled to be released in theaters on May 27, 2022, and it is expected to be something to behold on the big screen.