Breaking Baz: Paula Wagner On Why Tom Cruise Remains A Shining Star, Her Part In The ‘Mission: Impossible’ Franchise, A New Film About John Fogerty & Creedence, And The Art Of Teaching Disruption
Exclusive: Paula Wagner, the onetime budding actress-turned-superagent-turned studio owner in partnership with Tom Cruise, who helped produce the first three Mission: Impossible movies, was asked a question several years ago by students at DePaul University in Chicago that she was amply qualified to answer: What is a star?
A star, Wagner explained that day, “lights up the sky and gives heat and light and energy, and then they burn out.”
Greta Garbo, she observed, “retired at 30.”
Where does Wagner place Cruise, I ask, just as Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was having its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Related: ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Review: The Sky’s The Limit In Ethan Hunt’s ‘Last’ Adventure – Cannes Film Festival
“He’s Tom Cruise, he is a phenomenon. He really is. And from the moment I met him in July of 1981, he exuded that quality. The difference...
A star, Wagner explained that day, “lights up the sky and gives heat and light and energy, and then they burn out.”
Greta Garbo, she observed, “retired at 30.”
Where does Wagner place Cruise, I ask, just as Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was having its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Related: ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Review: The Sky’s The Limit In Ethan Hunt’s ‘Last’ Adventure – Cannes Film Festival
“He’s Tom Cruise, he is a phenomenon. He really is. And from the moment I met him in July of 1981, he exuded that quality. The difference...
- 5/14/2025
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
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