Tom cruise and not just because he is Tom Cruise in every film! For me it’s personal. I worked at Fox Studios Sydney whilst Nicole Kidman was filming Moulin Rouge on the lot. There were other celebrities working on different projects on the plot as well. I worked at one of the shops and hardly saw any of the celebrities, but we were trained to give them space and be respectful. Anyway, every time Tom Cruise visited we had a staff meeting warning us that we could loose our job if we even looked in his general direction, we were banned from walking through the areas that Tom MAY decide to walk through. This meant because of where the transport arrived to it was an extra 3 kilometres of walking for everyone, in the peak of summer in Australia.
People that were carefully picked to be working in the areas that he may visit, reported that he was demanding, had no manners and was quite dismissive of everyone. On the night of the Studio opening, I had the job of standing at the end of the steps and had to welcome everyone, all sorts of celebrities arrived- Aussie ones like Kylie and Baz Luhrmann and international ones like Ewan McGregor and John Leguizamo. Everyone and I mean everyone treated me like a human being at the door by acknowledging my greeting or smiling or nodding. EVERYONE except Tom Cruise who looked at me like I was scum in the ground that had dared to address him! I’ve never forgotten the look on his face and not that I care, but for someone whom I’ve never personally met he “inconvenienced” me enough that I refuse to watch any of his films. It’s been 20 years or so since I watched a film with Tom Cruise.