Simon Pegg Denies Rumor That Tom Cruise Won’t Let His Co-Stars Look Him In The Eyes

The seventh film of the Mission Impossible the franchise was released this week and was the actors’ fifth collaboration Tom Cruisewhich plays the protagonist, Ethan Hunt, and Simone Pegg, who plays field agent Benji Dunn in the films. The actors have developed a friendship over the years and Pegg feels close enough to Cruise to bring it up, debunking a rumor that has been circulating for years.

During a recent interview with The Times of London (via CB), Pegg admitted there’s an aura of mystery surrounding Cruise, but denied that Cruise himself cultivated it. It was Cruise who called the rumor that his co-stars weren’t allowed to make eye contact with him one of the weirdest things he’s ever heard about himself, but Pegg was there to fully expose it during the junket for their latest collaboration .

“I was able to work my way through all the bizarre mythology that surrounds him. On the one hand he’s Tom Cruise, this enigmatic movie star that everyone wants to get to know. And on the other hand he’s just a guy. I like being normal with him. “

It’s nice to know that Cruise is a regular guy and some of the weird rumors we hear about him aren’t true. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, first part it’s in theaters now. You’ve already seen?