‘I didn’t want to be bandmates’: Marion Bartoli, approached by Tom Cruise, tells the story of their ‘professional friendships’

After a five-year wait, the sequel to the fascinating Tom Cruise saga hits French cinemas on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 The penultimate part of the saga, which will conclude with part 2, the eighth and final feature film starring secret agent Ethan Hunt, accustomed to the craziest tricks. To promote the new event movie, RMC is the only French radio station that the American actor has chosen to give an interview to. Why ? Because the journalist in question is Marion Bartoli, whom Tom Cruise befriended last year.”At a formal dinner at Wimbledon“Where the former athlete was invited as the former winner of the tennis tournament. Since then, a friendship has formed between the two personalities.

That’s what Marion Bartoli said. Parisian this Monday, June 10, 2023.”During the acceptance speech, when President Ian Hewitt (Wimbledon’s boss) called my name, I stood up, (…) turned around and our eyes met. I was extremely impressed, I was absolutely blushing. But the craziest thing was when it came to my table after dessert was served to celebrate my 2013 title. He called me by my name and said he saw me playing and that I had won the final with an ace in the game. point and you like my style“remembers the person who gave it a few days ago in his struggle with anorexia.

Later that evening, Tom Cruise came to see the French woman to ask her what she had become since the end of her sports career: “I tell him about my new life, my program at RMC, my desire to go further in my career. And there he said to me, ‘Take my number, if I can help you, I will do it with great pleasure’. I didn’t want to be bandmates, so I let some time pass. A month or two later, I texted him to find out how. He immediately replied to me saying everything was fine! Then we started a more regular correspondence. I asked him many questions about how to manage my new career, I asked him for advice and he always gave me very kind answers.“.

The famous actor and producer then invited Marion Bartoli to interview him for the broadcast of the first episode of the series. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning : “For two months I’ve put together this program tremendously to ask the best questions. It went super well, we had a great time, it was very strong. He even sent me a small message afterwards saying that he was proud of me and that I should continue in this direction. (…) Tom is an extremely kind and generous, extremely humane person. He’s a bit like my coach because I can ask a lot of advice from him. A true professional friendshipGrateful for this exclusive interview, the new journalist presented Tom Cruise with the ramblings of his Wimbledon victory. Mission impossible complete. Indeed, Tom Cruise and Marion Bartoli planned to have a tennis match there together!

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