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Powell has a slew of golden Tom Cruise anecdotes, the two having become good friends. Like the one where Cruise flew him back to London from Top Gun: Maverick reshoots at Pinewood in his helicopter, and pretended that they were about to go down. “Tom goes ‘oh no, oh no,’ and he starts dropping the helicopter over London.” (This is Tom Cruise’s idea of a joke.) “I was like, ‘Am I about to be the unnamed guy that dies with Tom in a smoking hole in the middle of London?’”

Or the one where Cruise sent him to a cinema in LA to watch a “film school” movie he had put together for his friends. Powell expected to be among a crowd – but no, it was just him alone, in an empty theatre. For six hours. Watching Tom Cruise speak directly to the camera, breaking down everything he’s learned about filmmaking over the years. According to Powell, Cruise has no intention of putting it out into the public sphere. “He said, ‘This is just for my friends’.”

In the video, “[Cruise] is like: ‘Do we all agree that this is what a camera is? This is the difference between a film camera and a digital camera…’ The funniest part is on flying. It was like he put together this entire flight school. So he would literally go ‘OK, this is what a plane is. Here’s how things fly. Here’s how air pressure works.’”

Tom Cruise has a six hour movie of him telling people what movies are directly to a camera that he only shows friends. (Source)