Cuba Gooding Jr. and Tom Cruise: You celebrate “Jerry Maguire” reunion in Cannes

The Film Festival in Cannes 2025 caused a big surprise this week: a “Jerry Maguire – Game of Life” reunion. Almost 30 years after working together to Cameron Crowes (67) of romantic sports comedy, Tom Cruise (62) and Cuba Gooding Jr. (57) met again at the premiere of “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”. The two actors were photographed as they greeted themselves with a wide smile, hugged themselves intimately and exchanged a few words.

The 1996 cult film revolves around the sports agent Jerry Maguire (Cruise), who tries to save his dwindling career by founding his own independent agency. His best client, NFL star Rod Tidwell (Gooding Jr.), and his colleague and later dear Dorothy Boyd (Renée Zellweger) are there.

In this film, Cruise showed his talent with various acting facets, which earned him his second Oscar nomination, while Gooding Jr. won the Oscar as the best supporting actor. The professional relationship between the two actors began in 1992 with “a question of honor”, in which cruise plays the emerging marine lawyer Daniel Kaffee, who has to prove that two US marines only killed a comrade because they followed the commands of their commander. Gooding Jr. took over the role of the Cpl. Carl Hammaker.

While Gooding Jr., in contrast to Cruise Oscar Prize winners, is allowed to call himself, the careers of the two developed precisely. Cruise has always been an integral part of Hollywood, while Gooding Jr. recently wrote primarily negative headlines. In 2023 the process should actually be made against him. A woman had accused him of raping her. But shortly before the start of the trial, there was an out -of -court settlement surprisingly.

In spring 2022, Cuba Gooding Jr. In addition, he confessed to having groped women in two other cases.