Tom Cruise shares trip through London for first post-lockdown cinema visit to watch Tenet
Written by News on 26/08/2020
Tom Cruise has returned to the cinema for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic to watch Tenet – and he says he “loved it”.
Christopher Nolan’s time-travelling spy espionage is the first major new film to be screened in a cinema since they were closed around the world due to COVID-19.
Tenet‘s staggered global release means that it won’t be showing in America until early September, but Cruise has managed to catch an early screening in London.
Cruise, who’s currently in the UK to film Mission: Impossible 7, posted a short video on Instagram to share some of his viewing experience.
The 58-year-old, who has 4.9m followers wrote: “Big movie. Big screen. Loved it.”
His home video kicks off in the back of a black cab, looking out of at a stereotypically grey and drizzly London.
Passing by iconic sites including Buckingham Palace and Wellington Arch on Hyde Park Corner, Cruise is spotted through the window by fans.
Cruise jokes: “How does that happen, I’m wearing a mask?”
Throughout the video Cruise wears a black reusable face mask with filters and a nose clip to match his Mission Impossible-style black polo neck.
Drawing up at BFI Odeon IMAX, the biggest screen in London, he announces: “Here we are. Back to the movies.”
The action star poses briefly next to the Tenet poster, before heading in to watch the two-and-a-half-hour film.
There is lots of time-space continuum chat in the movie, and a shot of Cruise totally engrossed in the film shows he’s committed to concentrating on the finer details of the plot.
During the end credits, the socially-distanced audience gives a spontaneous round of applause and Cruise comments: “Great to be back in a movie theatre everybody.”
As he leaves the auditorium, a fan asks him what he thought of the film, and he replies: “I loved it.”
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Cruise is currently in the UK filming the seventh Mission: Impossible film, after the shoot was postponed while filming in Italy due to coronavirus.
As with many other productions, delays have led to the release date being pushed back several months to November 2021.
(c) Sky News 2020: Tom Cruise shares trip through London for first post-lockdown cinema visit to watch Tenet
