{"id":2452502,"date":"2026-06-10T08:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2452502"},"modified":"2026-06-10T08:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:01:47","slug":"beau-bridges-says-tom-cruise-gets-better-with-age-as-top-gun-star-keeps-defying-hollywood-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/beau-bridges-says-tom-cruise-gets-better-with-age-as-top-gun-star-keeps-defying-hollywood-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Beau Bridges says Tom Cruise \u2018gets better with age\u2019 as \u2018Top Gun&#8217; star keeps defying Hollywood odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Tom Cruise\u2019s\u00a0\u201cJerry McGuire\u201d costar Beau Bridges thinks the 63-year-old actor is getting better and better with age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really appreciated working with him,\u201d Bridges, who starred alongside Cruise in the 90s romcom, told\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/beau-bridges-says-jerry-maguire-costar-tom-cruise-gets-better-with-age-exclusive-11992280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">People\u00a0<\/a>while attending the \u201cMatlock\u201d For Your Consideration event last week. \u201cHe\u2019s a wonderful actor and\u00a0just gets better with age. I mean, he\u2019s still doing all those crazy stunts and stuff. Yeah. And I like working with him. I thought he was great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bridges isn\u2019t the only actor who has thoughts on Cruise\u2019s legendary stunts.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year,\u00a0Ethan Hawke revealed that he\u00a0has grown \u201cangry\u201d with Cruise, explaining that the \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d star\u2019s high-risk stunt work has changed what audiences and studios expect from actors across Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTom Cruise has totally changed what\u2019s expected for actors,\u201d Hawke told\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/ethan-hawke-advice-maya-hawke-stranger-things-ends-1236640436\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Variety\u00a0<\/a>at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in February. \u201cSome part of me is getting angry over the years because everyone somehow feels like they\u2019re less if they use a stunt team.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Tom Cruise\u2019s\u00a0\u201cJerry McGuire\u201d costar Beau Bridges thinks the 63-year-old actor is getting better and better with age. <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Cruise \u2014 who is\u00a0returning for \u201cTop Gun 3\u201d \u2014 has\u00a0never appeared in a superhero movie from Marvel, DC or any other comic-book franchise, the actor cemented his status as an action movie icon by insisting on performing increasingly dangerous, real-world stunts himself in blockbuster\u00a0franchises including \u201cMission: Impossible,\u201d \u201cTop Gun\u201d\u00a0and \u201cJack Reacher.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Cruise\u00a0nearly broke his back\u00a0while performing a stunt for \u201cMission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In bonus content from the digital release of the film, Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie detailed one of the film\u2019s most harrowing sequences: a high-flying biplane battle between the actor\u2019s character, Ethan Hunt, and Gabriel, portrayed by Esai Morales.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Tom Cruise in a scene from \u201cMission: Impossible The Final Reckoning.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The scene showed Ethan leaping from one plane onto another, as he clung to the wing midair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, this almost broke my back,\u201d Cruise said, per\u00a0Entertainment Weekly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re talking about a lot of pain here,\u201d McQuarrie chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>Cruise\u2019s character was seen in the video clip grabbing a seat belt, holding on for dear life, as the plane flipped upside down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Last year, Cruise\u00a0nearly broke his back\u00a0while performing a stunt for \u201cMission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNow watch this, the thing we haven\u2019t talked about, holding on to this belt,\u201d McQuarrie described, while Cruise said, \u201cOh God, that was brutal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The director continued to explain, \u201cThis separated the joints in Tom\u2019s fingers from the force, so by the time we finished this sequence, your hands were absolutely swollen \u2013 oh my God, it was so painful to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the intense scene, Cruise\u2019s character was forced to crash into the side of the aircraft. As he remembered the pain, the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/brad-pitt-still-bitter-decades-old-competition-tom-cruise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Hollywood actor<\/u><\/a>\u00a0said, \u201cOh, that was brutal. That hit, that was a hard one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McQuarrie joked, \u201cAnd you improvised that, thank you very much. I appreciate that. You were like, \u2018I think we\u2019re gonna need that,\u2019 and I was like, \u2018I didn\u2019t ask you to do that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Cruise\u2019s\u00a0\u201cJerry McGuire\u201d costar Beau Bridges thinks the 63-year-old actor is getting better and better with age. \u201cI really appreciated working with him,\u201d Bridges, who starred alongside Cruise in the 90s romcom, told\u00a0People\u00a0while attending the \u201cMatlock\u201d For Your Consideration event last week. \u201cHe\u2019s a wonderful actor and\u00a0just gets better with age. 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