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. However, the "Mission Impossible" actor previously revealed that he "didn't expect" his wife to file for divorce in the summer of Although neither party has confirmed why the highly publicized breakup took place, there are plenty of rumors surrounding Holmes' decision to get out of the marriage.
The most common rumor surrounding the demise of the couple's relationship is that Katie Holmes wanted to remove herself and daughter Suri from any involvement with the Church of Scientology. There was one incredible moment when I think I actually cried.
Suri was six or seven, and she was spending the night at a friend's house while I was seeing the ballet at Lincoln Center. She was exhausted. She fell asleep on the way home, and when we pulled up to our building, the cab driver opened the door and helped me not wake her. He helped carry her to the building. He was so kind. It's sort of, like, just put your stuff out there and be yourself. It takes a while to be comfortable, though.
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. In quick succession, Holmes fired her manager, her agent, and her publicist. The narrative quickly forked into parallel stories connected only by the names of their main characters. The other, peddled by Cruise and Holmes, was a saccharine fairy tale.
For the next chapter in my life. Cruise seemed not to have gotten the memo.
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