50. Cruise has social media accounts but they are strictly for un-risky business, and he prefers to not know everything that’s happening online. “Sometimes I have to for work, but I keep it very limited,” he told E! News in 2016. “I don’t spend time doing that kind of stuff.”
In fact, he refers to his personal workout space—a version of which he takes with him everywhere—as the “Pain Cave.”
“Only the motivated can enter,” he explained to the AP at the 2017 premiere of The Mummy. “All you got to do is just be motivated. Anyone can come in, we have the crew come in, and we just make it available to everyone.”
As co-star Jake Johnson revealed: “You start every morning with the daily challenge. So before work starts, you’re in there. His hair and makeup team is in there, his crew is in there, so there’s about 15, 20 people every day doing their squats and jumping jacks. And then I kinda got into it with him…I wanted to be in a Tom Cruise movie and do it the Tom Cruise way.”
That includes, alas, avoiding sugar.
“I love sugar,” Cruise assured James Corden on The Late Late Show in 2018, “but I can’t eat it because when I’m training, I’m doing all these movies—so I send it to everyone.” And then, “I wait for the calls. Like, ‘tell me about it.'”
