Tom Cruise’s Ex-Manager Details the Actor’s Explosive Temper

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Tom Cruise's former manager details the actor's allegedly explosive temper in a new interview. Cruise is one of the biggest movie stars in the world, having been a box-office draw since the 1980s, and has worked with some of the most legendary directors in Hollywood, including Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, and Paul Thomas Anderson. A full 26 years after the release of the first Mission: Impossible film, audiences are still invested in the franchise, with Mission: Impossible 7 set for release in 2023.

But despite all the success, Cruise has garnered a reputation for being slightly difficult and controlling on set. In 2006, Paramount Pictures parted ways with Tom Cruise and his production company Cruise/Wagner Productions shortly after reports of controversial behavior including the actor's publicized advocacy for Scientology and denouncement of the use of antidepressant drugs. The two companies have since mended fences — Paramount is heavily invested in the Tom Cruise business on account of both Top Gun: Maverick and the two upcoming Misson: Impossible films — but Cruise's intense behavior has been a source of Hollywood gossip for years.

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In a recent interview with The Daily Mail, Cruise's former manager, Eileen Berlin, detailed his allegedly explosive behavior. Berlin was Cruise's first manager early in his career and was with the actor until shortly after the release of Top Gun, at which point Cruise decided to move to Los Angeles and Berlin stayed in New York. Speaking on Cruise's temper, she says that he insisted he be taken seriously as an actor. When he was 19, Berlin says, he threw an album of publicity photos he had done for