TOM Cruise looked amazing as he stripped down on the beach and showed off his ripped body in Mallorca today.
Actor Tom, 61, gave locals an eyeful as he took a morning dip in the sea – 38 years after his iconic beach volleyball scene as Maverick in Top Gun.
The BAFTA winner wore a pair of navy swimming shorts while wading the waters of Formentor Beach in Pollensa, alongside Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, 60.
He later threw on a grey T-shirt and straw sunhat to board a luxury yacht with Alejandro, whose filmography includes Birdman and The Revenant.
Tom appears to be enjoying a well deserved break after months of filming Mission: Impossible 8 in London.
Production had been taking place at Surrey’s Longcross Studios as well as on location in Westminster Bridge and near Downing Street since the beginning of March.
Determined to stick to schedule by any means necessary, at one point Tom forked out for the entire cast and crew to be flown to set by helicopters after the M25 shut down.
He also hired hawks to keep pesky pigeons away from Trafalgar Square where he shot scenes in-character as Ethan Hunt.
Little is known about what will happen in the eighth instalment of the series – only that it will follow on from Dead Reckoning, which was released last year.
Originally titled Dead Reckoning: Part Two, the new film has since dropped being considered a second part and will instead go by its own name.
Reasons for this are unknown but rumours have varied from the film going in a completely different direction to what was initially planned, to the name being scrapped due to Part One’s lacklustre success at the box office.
Starring alongside Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby and Simon Pegg among others, Dead Reckoning went on to get two Oscar nominations for sound and visual effects.
However, despite raking in $565.8million worldwide at the box office, Dead Reckoning failed to meet the necessary returns to break even from its $291million budget.
On average, taking into account promotional costs etc, a film needs to make 2.5x its budget in order to be considered a financial success.
This was hindered slightly by the global phenomenon of Barbenheimer (the release date of Barbie and Oppenheimer) which came just two weeks after Dead Reckoning’s, causing a drop off in potential sales.
Currently, the as-yet-untitled Mission Impossible 8 is scheduled to be released on May 23, 2025 after a string of pushbacks due to the pandemic and last year’s SAG-AFTRA strikes.
It was initially meant to be ready for release in August 2022, before being delayed to November 2022, July 2023 and June 2024.
