When Tom Cruise comes towards you, you look for the charging station somewhere behind him, where Tesla cars or other e-mobiles are usually charged and where you are sure that Cruise was just on the cable. Can't be any other way, because no matter where this man appears, every muscle in his hands and arms and face, yes, every cell in his body seems to be under a lot of electricity.

If you also see that when he laughs – and he actually always laughs – the sun in the sky gets competition, a “million watt laugh” as the “New York Times” and the “Hollywood Reporter” call it.

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