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Mission Impossible: Professional Tom Cruise impersonator is kicked off Instagram because PRETENDNG to be someone else violates sites rules

  • Jerome LeBlanc, 33, built up his Tom Cruise lookalike business over 10 years
  • He had 30,000 followers on Instagram which would drive his business that consisted of video messages and in-person meet & greets 
  • Social media platform kicked him off twice for 'impersonation' and breaching the app's Community Guidelines
  • Instagram ignored his appeal devastating his business during the pandemic
  • LeBlanc has switched to TikTok where he has more than half a million followers 

By James Gordon For Dailymail.com

Published: 20:59 EDT, 14 January 2022 | Updated: 02:21 EDT, 15 January 2022

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A Tom Cruise lookalike has been kicked off Instagram for 'pretending to be someone,' which has destroyed his business.

Jerome LeBlanc, 33, from Quebec, Canada , who resides in San Diego, California , was removed from the social media platform for breaking one of the apps 'community guidelines' which forbid people from impersonating others.

LeBlanc, who blessed with good looks and appears uncannily like the real Tom Cruise, had been able to find work impersonating the Top Gun actor and built up his Instagram following over the course of six years.  

Having built up more than 30,000 followers, his sudden removal from Instagram led to a sharp drop in business. 

'It was a pretty big blow for someone self employed like me to lose an account that brought me so much business,' LeBlanc told DailyMail.com. 

LeBlanc was first banned from the platform in June 2021. He appealed and was reinstated before being stuck off for good weeks later. 

Jerome LeBlanc, 33, built up his Tom Cruise lookalike business over 10 years but has now been kicked off Instagram

Jerome LeBlanc, 33, built up his Tom Cruise lookalike business over 10 years but has now been kicked off Instagram

Instagram kicked LeBlanc off twice for 'impersonation' and breaching the app's Community Guidelines. He is pictured during a meet and greet with fans in 2020

LeBlanc, left, impersonates the real Tom Cruise and his character Maverick, right, from the 1986 film Top Gun

Professional Tom Cruise impersonator Jerome LeBlanc is seen on his Facebook page

Professional Tom Cruise impersonator Jerome LeBlanc is seen on his Facebook page, left, while the real deal Tom Cruise is seen, right

Instagram rules state: 'Creating an account to impersonate someone is against the Community Guidelines and could result in the removal of your account.'

The app further advises: 'Don't pretend to be the real individual or brand. This includes: Speaking in the voice  or portraying yourself as the individual, brand, or organization. Misrepresenting your relationship to the individual, brand, or organization.' 

LeBlanc tells DailyMail.com: 'I tried appealing the disabling of my account - explaining I'm impersonating a fictional character, but no luck. They stated "I was pretending to be someone, and my name did not match the account." Of course I wasn't pretending to be anyone, I was impersonating a fictional character.'

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LeBlanc set about providing Instagram documents that would hopefully see the company, which is owned by Meta (formerly Facebook), reconsider. 

He supplied them with information including a business license showing that owned a lookalike business, but the decision was a firm 'no'. 

'I began to appeal three times a day for weeks. Finally, I received a different response, they said I needed either a lawyer or someone on my behalf to prove my legitimacy. So I retained a lawyer,' he continued. 

'After thousands of dollars lost during the process, and thousands spent on a lawyer trying to regain my account. They never even responded to my lawyer,' LeBlanc explained. 

LeBlanc often makes in-person appearances at military-themed events

LeBlanc often makes in-person appearances at military-themed events 

LeBlanc has now been forced to switch to TikTok to generate business. He is pictured in 2021

LeBlanc has now been forced to switch to TikTok to generate business. He is pictured in 2021

LeBlanc says he does not believe the real Tom Cruise, pictured above, is responsible for him being removed from Instagram while others have suggested that he may well be

LeBlanc says he does not believe the real Tom Cruise, pictured above, is responsible for him being removed from Instagram while others have suggested that he may well be

'It has affected my business greatly due to the fact my Instagram was mainly a San Diego base following. Which is where I live. Also, to top it off... This is all happening during a pandemic where we need to maintain a physical distance.'

Before heading online, LeBlanc began impersonating Cruise's character Maverick from Top Gun on Hollywood Blvd in Los Angeles at the age of 23, where he would pose with tourists.  

In recent times, when not making in-person appearances at parties or larger events such as the San Diego Comic Con for a fee of thousands, LeBlanc would generate income by making personal videos for those who requested them for around $80 a pop. 

Despite speaking French as a first language, LeBlanc trained himself to perfect the quintessential Tom Cruise laugh, a trademark of the Syracuse-born superstar. 

Now married with two children, his impersonation role is his full-time job.  

Since being kicked off Instagram, LeBlanc has been forced to start all over again and has now switched to TikTok and Cameo. 

LeBlanc began impersonating Cruise's character Maverick from Top Gun, on Hollywood Blvd pictured above, in Los Angeles at the age of 23, where he would pose with tourists

LeBlanc began impersonating Cruise's character Maverick from Top Gun, on Hollywood Blvd pictured above, in Los Angeles at the age of 23, where he would pose with tourists

LeBlanc, pictured, says he does not believe the real actor is behind his suspension but has had word that Cruise may well have had some influence behind the scenes

LeBlanc, pictured, says he does not believe the real actor is behind his suspension but has had word that Cruise may well have had some influence behind the scenes

If you can't meet Tom Cruise, you can at least pose with the next best thing - meet Jerome LeBlanc!

If you can't meet Tom Cruise, you can at least pose with the next best thing - meet Jerome LeBlanc!

LeBlanc is seen in a typical Tom Cruise pose with hair, glasses and flight jacket all in the character of Maverick from Top Gun

LeBlanc is seen in a typical Tom Cruise pose with hair, glasses and flight jacket all in the character of Maverick from Top Gun

Even real life members of the U.S. Air Force are happy to pose with the Tom Cruise impersonator

Even real life members of the U.S. Air Force are happy to pose with the Tom Cruise impersonator 

On TikTok, he has quickly managed to build up a loyal fanbase of more than 530,000 followers. Nevertheless, he is still disappointed in how he was treated by Instagram. 

'My career was mainly 'meet and greets' and appearances, and because of this platform I survived the entire pandemic creating videos for people and never receiving unemployment,' he said. 

'I'm extremely disappointed that a platform so huge wouldn't have a customer service system with real people responding.'

LeBlanc says he does not believe the real actor is behind his suspension but has had word that Cruise may well have had some influence behind the scenes.    

'In November, I tried appealing once again but the email address simply bounced, s o I have been definitely banned from the appealing process at this point.'

Despite a frustrating six months, LeBlanc remains humble: ' I'm very grateful for a career that is not only fun for me, but fun for others. The exchange of energy this job brings is absolutely fantastic.'

Despite a frustrating six months, LeBlanc remains humble: ' I'm very grateful for a career that is not only fun for me, but fun for others. The exchange of energy this job brings is absolutely fantastic.'

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Once a creative virtuoso who was studying architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Jerome LeBlanc soon found his calling as the most sought-after Tom Cruise lookalike until his high-profile Instagram account was deactivated for allegedly violating its terms and conditions by "impersonating" someone he wasn’t.

Except that someone is a fictional character, Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, played by Cruise in " Top Gun ."

LeBlanc, 33, told Fox News Digital that he and his manager wife – whom he met one day on Hollywood Boulevard while impersonating the famed "Top Gun" hunk – have been stonewalled by Instagram and have lost out on a ton of business due to the platform eschewing the social media account, which had 30,000 followers at the time of its deactivation.

Instagram – which is owned by Meta, formerly known as Facebook – initially banned the San Diego-based LeBlanc in June 2021 before LeBlanc said he had to submit verification and proof of his uncanny looks in order to have his account reinstated.

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Jerome LeBlanc bares an uncanny resemblance to Tom Cruise's "Top Gun" character, Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell.

Jerome LeBlanc bares an uncanny resemblance to Tom Cruise's "Top Gun" character, Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell. (Courtesy Jerome LeBlanc)

"We got it back after proving and showing my ID with the way I look that I portray 'Maverick' and they said, 'sorry for our mistake' and they gave it back," LeBlanc explained of the process, which has become painstaking to remedy after he said the platform apologized for its initial mistake.

Per Instagram’s rules: "Creating an account to impersonate someone is against the Community Guidelines and could result in the removal of your account."

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It also warns users, "Don't pretend to be the real individual or brand. This includes: Speaking in the voice or portraying yourself as the individual, brand, or organization. Misrepresenting your relationship to the individual, brand, or organization."

LeBlanc’s native language is French and he says he adheres to all of Instagram’s rules and regulations.

"The second time we applied about six times a day for over two months and they never gave it back, even my saying, I am this person," he said. "I even recreated -- how interesting is it that I created two more accounts after it was deactivated under my name, Jerome LeBlanc -- impersonator of Maverick, and it got deleted right away. So I don't know how that is even possible as well?"

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Jerome LeBlanc, right, the most sought-after Tom Cruise lookalike, had his high-profile Instagram account was deactivated by Instagram for allegedly violating its terms and conditions by "impersonating" someone he wasn’t. (Getty/Jerome LeBlanc)

Reps for Instagram and Meta did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment. Furthermore, a number of attorneys who are not associated with the inquiry declined to speak on the matter with some citing confusion over the ban and others saying they don’t know enough about the situation to confidently lend their insight.

LeBlanc shares two young children with his wife – a 3-month-old son and a daughter who is 2 and a half. He says the loss in income has been devastating "in these difficult times" and said that while his legal counsel is based in Louisiana, bringing a lawsuit against the social media corporation in California would all but deplete their savings – but the option remains on the table as the Instagram ban is "definitely a legal matter at this point."

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"I mean, losing Instagram and over 30,000 followers, that was my platform where I was really just posting events and clips of events I would do here in San Diego," LeBlanc explained of his upended business. "I've performed on the USS Midway and Miramar base, Kansas City Barbecue. I'm sure you're familiar with all these locations due to the movie 'Top Gun' being filmed here."

"So I think I really had a big San Diego-based audience on my social media where people could see all this and book me from my platform," LeBlanc added. "And losing that, I can tell, affected my business tremendously because people were like, 'What happened with California Tom Cruise?' And people reached out to other groups or 'Top Gun' fans asking about me. So it definitely, I think, made me lose a lot of business for sure."

Jerome LeBlanc, left, impersonates Tom Cruise's "Top Gun" character, Lt. Pete

Jerome LeBlanc, left, impersonates Tom Cruise's "Top Gun" character, Lt. Pete "Maverick," Mitchell at an event. (Courtesy Jerome LeBlanc)

He continued: "I kind of put my architectural degree aside at UCLA and I went full speed into this craft and then we moved down to San Diego. And that's when I was like, wow, this can be a career," he said. "And then my wife, who met me as Maverick, realized it is a niche that we should really push further, so she became my manager and she's been my manager ever since, so both of us are pretty much hurt in the process."

LeBlanc said he even recreated a couple of Instagram accounts to see if they would pass the test but said those were also removed immediately, and now LeBlanc says no one from Instagram or Meta has gotten back to him regarding his numerous appeals.

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He has since switched to TikTok, where he plays to more than half a million followers.

"Never in my career for 11 years, I've been doing this have I called myself Tom Cruise," he fumed while also pondering why other similar social media accounts have been able to carry on without banishment.

"Have I used the hashtag Tom Cruise? Yes, correct. But Maverick is a character. I'm not doing anything wrong by impersonating a fictional character," argued LeBlanc. "And so I would say the response of people finding out that I lost my Instagram, they were very insulted and upset about that for sure."

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Jerome LeBlanc had his Instagram account deactivated for "impersonating" Tom Cruise. (Courtesy Jerome LeBlanc)

In fact, LeBlanc’s Maverick impersonation is so spot-on, he claimed to Fox News Digital that Paramount Studios had even reached out to him in the past to work with him – so in his theory of who or what might be standing in his way, LeBlanc has his own suspicions.

"In our situation, we reached out so many times and we had lawyers reaching out, calling, emailing, Facebook and Meta, and we just never heard back. So I would say there are so many other characters," he explained. 

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"Is my character targeted because the movie's been postponed, and maybe I'm so good at what I'm doing that it makes people upset or I could go further and think, is it Paramount, is it Tom Cruise or is it the religion?" he questioned. "But Paramount has reached out to me to potentially work with me last year, so I doubt it really is the studio. But I think my character is so loved and brings so much attention on social media. I think that's why I probably got deleted – to not mislead where the real Tom Cruise could be or of scenes of the new 'Top Gun: Maverick' or something like that."

"It always crossed my mind, when will I meet him? And I know myself, as soon as I see him, I will take off the glasses and be who I am and just shake his hand." — Jerome LeBlanc, Tom Cruise lookalike, Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell impersonator

At the end of the day, LeBlanc just says he wants to get back to doing what he loves – bringing smiles to the faces of those who love and were inspired by Maverick in "Top Gun."

"When people need a celebrity – sometimes they're so fascinated by a certain movie they've done that they want to meet the character" he opined. "Well, that's what I'm able to bring to the table, and people just kind of freak out because the nostalgia of 'Top Gun' is so big from people that grew up with that movie in the '80s."

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Jerome LeBlanc says he was "inspired" by Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in "Top Gun." (Courtesy Jerome LeBlanc)

The Canadian said he believes Instagram simply has too much control over its users and is often too vague in its reasoning behind certain retributions.

"Yes, absolutely. And you know, like any performer, the joy of doing what I do is entertainment. I'm entertaining guests and I feed on the energy of seeing them, just smiling and cracking up," LeBlanc exuded, the octave in his voice increasing with each moment of recollection. "And I'm super witty, so I take on people – if one lady isn't smiling, I'm going to say – 'Oh my God, it looks like we got to bring back that loving feeling.' So that's what is frustrating. It's like, wow, I was bringing a lot of love and a lot of effort in what I do to give people a good time like any performer, like any comedian even. So yeah, it is upsetting, absolutely with the amount of work that I had when Instagram was around, it's a challenge to keep going, but I keep my head up."

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LeBlanc also recalled a moment at San Diego Comic-Con one year when he was mere moments from meeting Cruise until the " Mission: Impossible " star elected not to greet fans.

Some studio personnel close to the actor quipped to LeBlanc that Cruise couldn’t stomach the idea that he could come face to face with his biggest supporter who happened to be "two feet taller" and whose first language is French.

Jerome LeBlanc

Canadian Jerome LeBlanc has since switched to TikTok, where he plays to more than half a million followers as "Top Gun" hero Maverick. (Courtesy Jerome LeBlanc)

"My niche is very particular. I mean, I have people from aviation contacting me, people from the Navy. I mean, I do graduations constantly," said LeBlanc. "Even other Tom Cruise fans will tell me, ‘You're so humble' and it's just refreshing. It’s a nice compliment."

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Despite the Instagram ban, LeBlanc said he longs for the day he actually meets Cruise and said knows exactly how he will address the actor in the flesh.

"It always crossed my mind, when will I meet him? And I know myself, as soon as I see him, I will take off the glasses and be who I am and just shake his hand," LeBlanc envisioned. "I'm not here to be beside him or make it a ‘who laughs the loudest’ or ‘who has the better smile.’

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"It's almost like, ‘Hey, hats off. Thank you for all the acting you did because it gave me a good character to play with, and I really enjoyed your character, and we have a similar smile – so a similar charm, maybe?’ And that's what people like, and that's what they remember from 1986. And I'm lucky and blessed to have that."

Julius Young is an entertainment reporter for Fox News Digital.

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Man behind viral Tom Cruise deepfake videos calls the technology ‘morally neutral’

The man behind the viral Tom Cruise deepfake videos on TikTok believes the positive outweighs the negative when it comes to the technology that allows him to so convincingly impersonate the Hollywood superstar.

Miles Fisher, the Cruise lookalike who has fooled millions with his TikTok videos , spoke about the possibilities and downsides of the deepfake technology in an exclusive interview with NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff.

"As I find myself the unofficial face of this deep fake movement, it’s important to learn and I’m fascinated by this," Fisher told Soboroff on TODAY Tuesday. "This is the bleeding edge of technology."

In a series of digitally manipulated videos, images and audio released earlier this year, it appeared like Cruise himself was showing off magic tricks, working on his golf swing and playing guitar. Except that wasn't the "Mission: Impossible" star at all. It was Fisher.

"I think we’ve created the first deepfake that’s so realistic, that a large majority of people have seen," he said.

Fisher, who bears a strong resemblance to Cruise in real life, said the similarities to the star often hampered him as he tried to make his own way as an actor.

Last year he decided to lean into the connection to Cruise, contacting Belgian visual effects specialist Chris Umé to create the viral Cruise videos for fun. The technology has also improved to the point that what once would've taken Umé weeks to make can now be created much quicker.

"About five days, maximum six days, I could turn around something like this," Umé told Soboroff on TODAY.

Cruise, who did not respond to a request for comment from NBC News, has not asked the duo to stop. Fisher and Umé also have not monetized the TikTok account @deeptomcruise, which has more than 3 million followers.

However, Fisher and Umé are now working together in a company started by Umé called Metaphysic that uses deepfake tech.

"How can we use this technology by creating kind of identity rights?" Fisher said. "Let’s say Tom Cruise gave us the consent for this likeness, where we could move beyond just small parody clips. Everybody gets paid for that intellectual property."

Deepfakes in recent years have also created impersonations of Jennifer Lawrence, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Zuckerberg and former President George W. Bush that drew notice.

The potential threat of the technology has been debated in Congress, which raised the specter of its use for political propaganda, fake revenge porn and other nefarious purposes.

“Deepfakes can cause real, concrete harm. Whether that’s a deepfake sex video, or a fake porn video targeting political enemies, or a well-timed deepfake, maybe used to cause harm to an IPO,” University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron told NBC News ahead of congressional hearings about it in 2019. “And in unrest, if you time it just right, you can incite violence.”

The FBI told NBC News in a statement that it is tracking the technology closely and "will continue to investigate any violations of federal law and actors that may use them for nefarious acts."

Some companies are working on safeguards that will allow people to identify a deepfake like adding data to video and pictures so it will be clear when something has been digitally altered.

Fisher and Umé say they will only take on projects with positive applications.

"The thesis of this company that Chris started begins with ethics," Fisher said.  

"I think the technology is morally neutral," he continued. "As it develops, the positive output will so far outweigh the negative, nefarious uses."

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Tom Cruise Has a Look-Alike & He Looks Identical to Maverick from 'Top Gun'

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Prepare for a double take. Tom Cruise’s look-alike wore a Top Gun costume to Comic-Con and pretty much fooled everyone there. Jerome LeBlanc, a professional Cruise impersonator from San Diego, California, had fun with his Cruise-esque looks at San Diego Comic-Con last week. Not only did he wear the costume that Cruise’s character LT. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell wears in 1986’s Top Gun , but LeBlanc also went to the exact location where several key scenes in Top Gun were filmed, according to the OC Register.

Per the OC Register, LeBlanc surprised fans at San Diego’s Kansas City Barbeque (where some barroom scenes in Top Gun were shot) on Thursday, July 18, dressed head to toe like Maverick. Dressed in aviator glasses and pilot’s jacket — with his hair pushed back to Cruise’s signature quiff — LeBlanc looked like a dead ringer for the Oscar-nominated actor. ( See photos here .)

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LeBlanc’s appearance was especially exciting given that Cruise had revealed the trailer for Top Gun ‘s sequel , Top Gun: Maverick , at San Diego Comic-Con that exact day. Unfortunately, the look-alike didn’t run into the real-life Cruise. “We tried to accidentally bump into him,” LeBlanc told the OC Register. “It didn’t work out.”

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This isn’t the first time LeBlanc has surprised fans at Kansas City Barbeque, which has become tourist destination since the release of Top Gun . (Some memorabilia, including the piano that Goose plays “Great Balls of Fire” and signed autographs, are on display at the restaurant.) According to the restaurant’s owner, Chris Coffey, LeBlanc has frequented the spot a lot to shock tourists and take photos with fans. “He’s been coming here for awhile,” Coffey told the OC Register. “He knows all the regulars. They all know him.”

View this post on Instagram Maverick outside Conan, Comic Con 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Duffle Bag & Jacket: @cockpitusa @tmz_tv @entertainmenttonight @comic_con #comiccon #donutbar #tomcruise #chefsantiago #maverick #flightdeck #petemitchell #lieutenant #topgunmaverick #tomcat #sandiego #f14 #topgunpilot #filmset #missionimpossible #paramount #entertainment #celebrity#california #moviestar #dangerzone #needforspeed #topgun2 #inverted #pickoftheday #smile #topgunonmidway #midwaymaverick #calove A post shared by Top Gun • Maverick (@californiatomcruise) on Jul 22, 2019 at 11:33am PDT
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View this post on Instagram Closing Comic Con with the one and only, Chef Santiago of @donutbar 🍩 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @comic_con #comiccon #donutbar #tomcruise #chefsantiago #maverick #flightdeck #petemitchell #lieutenant #topgunmaverick #tomcat #sandiego #f14 #topgunpilot #filmset #missionimpossible #paramount #entertainment #celebrity#california #moviestar #dangerzone #needforspeed #topgun2 #inverted #pickoftheday #smile #topgunonmidway #midwaymaverick #calove A post shared by Top Gun • Maverick (@californiatomcruise) on Jul 21, 2019 at 6:14pm PDT
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View this post on Instagram We are a nation of many. A diverse collection of incredible stories. This year, Visit The USA’s roving content creation labs will travel the country in search of people, places and experiences which tell the story of the USA. You know Maverick’s story already… So come visit the USS Midway Museum in San Diego to hear about its history and also the stories from the docents aboard. #ipw19 #brandusa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @ussmidwaymuseum @visittheusa #aircraftcarrier #tomcruise #maverick #ipw19 #flightdeck #petemitchell #lieutenant #topgunmaverick #tomcat #sandiego #f14 #topgunpilot #filmset #missionimpossible #paramount #entertainment #celebrity#california #moviestar #dangerzone #needforspeed #topgun2 #inverted #pickoftheday #smile #topgunonmidway #midwaymaverick #calove A post shared by Top Gun • Maverick (@californiatomcruise) on Jun 5, 2019 at 9:26am PDT

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Miles Fisher was photographed July 12 in London. Three of the images of Tom Cruise on these pages are not actually of Tom Cruise but stills from Fisher’s DeepTom TikTok videos. See if you can spot them.

How I Became the Fake Tom Cruise

Miles Fisher had it all: talent, charm and the face of a movie star. Problem was, it was a very specific movie star. After years of resenting the resemblance, Fisher embraced it through viral TikTok deepfakes that demonstrate AI’s astonishing power to deceive.

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I wasn’t exceptional in college by any means. I studied English literature because I knew that charm and charisma could influence my overall grade in a way they couldn’t in math and sciences. I sang a cappella in a group whose repertoire was stuck in the 1940s and was a bottom-rung substitute on the squash team.

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I wrote and prepped and rehearsed endlessly for the big day. Seemingly everyone in the world who mattered to me would be in attendance. And just as I was summoned to come up and take my place among the three centuries of Harvard commencement orators before me, I heard a different name than mine being introduced. “He wears many hats on campus, but you probably know him best as the Tom Cruise guy, please welcome to the podium …”

Wait, hold up — what? Was I chosen for laughs? This was supposed to be my big moment. They couldn’t have phrased it, “with movie-star good looks,” or even, “with a resemblance to Mr. Mission Impossible ,” but straight up “the Tom Cruise guy” as though I intentionally tried to work that angle? Are they expecting me to slide up to the podium in tighty-whities and Ray-Bans? Am I just … a joke?

I blanked. The entire speech vanished from my memory and in an instant I felt my identity flipped inside out for all the world to see. There I stood behind the podium, feeling laughed at, not with. Pure panic.

That was the day I graduated from college and entered the real world. And by the real world, I mean Los Angeles.

“Has anyone ever said you look just like a young Tom Cruise?”

Still, when enough strangers tell you that you look and sound like a movie star, you begin to think maybe you should try your hand at becoming a movie star. At least I did. As my luck would have it, however, I moved to L.A. right around the time movie stars began their decline. This was back in 2006, when an upstart service called YouTube was acquired by Google. The iPhone did not yet exist. Facebook, which had been created my freshman year by a classmate of mine named Zuckerberg, was still just the domain of fancy college kids.

The strategy worked, to a degree. I started making videos on YouTube, they started racking up views, and slowly but surely I started getting cast in movies and TV shows. I had small roles on shows like Mad Men , Psych, 2 Broke Girls. I led an ensemble in Final Destination V (in 3D!) and played the heartthrob in a Christmas-themed Lifetime movie. I was the lead in six pilots that never saw the light of day. Yet no matter how many credits I racked up, it was my original viral videos that people responded to.

My YouTube videos were usually spoofs that doubled as music videos. I spoofed American Psycho and Saved By the Bell . I spoofed Hollywood agencies and, of course, Tom Cruise . I loved seeing that view count cross the million mark. I felt it was proof of concept that there was an audience who enjoyed watching me. But was it really me they were watching?

The Tom Cruise resemblance was becoming a real hindrance professionally. It seemed that no matter how well I spoofed others, I was simply too good at spoofing him. Once you saw me do that, you couldn’t unsee him, and there was little I could do to shake it off. Believe me, I tried.

At first I tried to change my voice, testing out weeks with a low-register Southern twang or a clipped New England variation. I changed up my style of dress, doing all I could to look more like a striving artist than a guy who once worked at a haberdashery in Cambridge called The Andover Shop. Such efforts were condemned by casting directors and agents alike as “forced” and “inauthentic.” Instead, they suggested I try some new haircuts (how genuine!).

Nevertheless, I enjoyed a decent run acting opposite some extraordinary people. I got to work with Leonardo DiCaprio, Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie. I improvised with Vince Vaughn, Laurence Fishburne and Keegan-Michael Key. I played serious with Elisabeth Moss, Courtney Vance and Owen Wilson. You know what they all had in common? Every one of them thought it was crazy how much I looked like Tom Cruise.

I had pursued acting to prove that I wasn’t just the Tom Cruise guy. I failed.

What if, instead of trying to hide my resemblance, I masked myself so perfectly that no one could even tell the difference? What if I just straight up owned it?

I’ll never forget the moment I first saw one of my videos deepfaked with my face replaced by Cruise’s. The lighting wasn’t uniform and there was a minor glitch behind the eyes, but the effect was still astonishing.

The video was made by a Belgian VFX artist named Chris Umé, who was living in Thailand. He pioneered a technology that used artificial intelligence “deep learning” to transpose Tom’s face onto mine in seemingly real time. I was able to get in touch with Chris, a shy and technologically brilliant wunderkind, to ask him just what the hell I was looking at. The science fascinated me, and over several conversations we developed a pen pal relationship via the internet.

One day, he casually mentioned that if I ever wanted another Tom Cruise deepfake (or hyperreal immersive footage, as Chris calls it), it would be easy to create. Apparently, the massive data set had not only been established and mapped to my face but was getting smarter and more realistic by the day. If I ever wanted to “play around,” I could just send him a clip and he could turn it around rather quickly. Um … sure, OK.

@deeptomcruise Sports! ♬ original sound – Tom

I couldn’t make sense of what I was watching but figured maybe the algorithms could. I had never used TikTok before, but all the “youngs” seemed to be obsessed, so in 2021 I downloaded the app, created a parodic account called @DeepTomCruise and uploaded the video. That’s when things started to get really bananas.

I had never made a number get that big that fast. From zero to 4 million views in less than two days. Tens of thousands of comments, virtually all of them convinced this was actually Tom Cruise just sharing his life on the internet. People weren’t comparing me to him; they insisted I was him.

When doing an impersonation of anyone, I’ll always try to distill someone’s essence down to two succinct words that help inform their mannerisms and drive. With Tom, I had locked in on “intense pleading.” He’s a guy who will do whatever it takes to get you to trust him. No one brims over with confidence like he does, but behind those eyes I’ve always sensed a desperation to get your vote. Or in TikTok’s case, your upvote.

The notion of Tom Cruise on TikTok is inherently absurd. This is a man for whom even TV is too small. He is the last Hollywood icon standing. Famous for never being truly accessible, he has masterly maintained that void into which the audience projects its desire. The idea of seeing him doing everyday, mundane things struck me as such a fun content space. Stars, they’re just like us, right?

I began making a series of videos according to a few simple rules. No cheap shots at Tom — nothing personal about him, his family or his religion. Not only is that none of my business, but I knew it would be a creative trap. Rather, every sketch was rooted in the simple joy of everyday experiences. Like discovering someone put gum inside a lollipop!

@deeptomcruise And bubblegum?! ♬ original sound – Tom

The sketches were limitless. My bruised ego, having endured 20 years of reductive comparisons, harbored an endless reservoir of ideas: Yeah, sure he’s A-list, but can Tom Cruise flush a golf ball or play guitar or speak Spanish or Japanese or perform magic?

Tom Cruise turned 60 this July and shows no signs of slowing down. I’ve never met the legend. At this point, nothing would make me happier. The creative joy behind DeepTom has proved contagious, resonating with the next generation of teenagers who loiter at the global algorithm malls. Between TikTok and Instagram Reels, my character has been viewed nearly a billion times.

Of course, I can’t take any credit for the overwhelming success of Top Gun: Maverick, but I’d like to think that I’ve contributed favorably to the contemporary awareness and likability of Mr. Cruise, especially among the 30-and-under set. After all, I’ve garnered him positive virality that money can’t buy. And I won’t profit one cent from any of this unless Mr. Cruise reaches out with his official approval to use his likeness. Until then, it’s only good-natured parody.

For my part, it’s been a creative boon. It took me a very long time to no longer feel laughed at but laughed with. I still get stopped by strangers on the street, but these days people tend to ask me if I’m the DeepTomCruise guy. With the relief of finally waking up to the day after Groundhog Day, I’m happy to finally own up to it. Yep, that’s me. I’m Miles, what’s your name?

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Tom Cruise deepfake creator says public shouldn’t be worried about ‘one-click fakes’

Weeks of work and a top impersonator were needed to make the viral clips.

By James Vincent , a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge.

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Want to see a magic trick? Tom Cruise impersonator Miles Fisher (left) and the deepfake Tom Cruise created by Chris Ume (right).

When a series of spookily convincing Tom Cruise deepfakes went viral on TikTok , some suggested it was a chilling sign of things to come — harbinger of an era where AI will let anyone make fake videos of anyone else. The video’s creator, though, Belgium VFX specialist Chris Ume , says this is far from the case. Speaking to The Verge about his viral clips, Ume stresses the amount of time and effort that went into making each deepfake, as well as the importance of working with a top-flight Tom Cruise impersonator, Miles Fisher.

“You can’t do it by just pressing a button,” says Ume. “That’s important, that’s a message I want to tell people.” Each clip took weeks of work, he says, using the open-source DeepFaceLab algorithm as well as established video editing tools. “By combining traditional CGI and VFX with deepfakes, it makes it better. I make sure you don’t see any of the glitches.”

Ume has been working with deepfakes for years, including creating the effects for the “Sassy Justice” series made by South Park ’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone . He started working on Cruise when he saw a video by Fisher announcing a fictitious run for president by the Hollywood star. The pair then worked together on a follow-up and decided to put a series of “harmless” clips up on TikTok. Their account, @deeptomcruise , quickly racked up tens of thousands of followers and likes. Ume pulled the videos briefly but then restored them.

“It’s fulfilled its purpose,” he says of the account. “We had fun. I created awareness. I showed my skills. We made people smile. And that’s it, the project is done.” A spokesperson from TikTok told The Verge that the account was well within its rules for parody uses of deepfakes, and Ume notes that Cruise — the real Tom Cruise — has since made his own official account, perhaps as a result of seeing his AI doppelgänger go viral.

Deepfake technology has been developing for years now, and there’s no doubt that the results are getting more realistic and easier to make. Although there has been much speculation about the potential harm such technology could cause in politics, so far these effects have been relatively nonexistent . Where the technology is definitely causing damage is in the creation of revenge porn or nonconsensual pornography of women. In those cases, the fake videos or images don’t have to be realistic to create tremendous damage. Simply threatening someone with the release of fake imagery, or creating rumors about the existence of such content, can be enough to ruin reputations and careers.

The Tom Cruise fakes, though, show a much more beneficial use of the technology: as another part of the CGI toolkit. Ume says there are so many uses for deepfakes, from dubbing actors in film and TV, to restoring old footage, to animating CGI characters. What he stresses, though, is the incompleteness of the technology operating by itself.

Before and after: you can see how impersonator Fisher (left) compares to the deepfake Cruise (right).

Creating the fakes took two months to train the base AI models (using a pair of NVIDIA RTX 8000 GPUs) on footage of Cruise, and days of further processing for each clip. After that, Ume had to go through each video, frame by frame, making small adjustments to sell the overall effect; smoothing a line here and covering up a glitch there. “The most difficult thing is making it look alive,” he says. “You can see it in the eyes when it’s not right.”

Ume says a huge amount of credit goes to Fisher; a TV and film actor who captured the exaggerated mannerisms of Cruise, from his manic laugh to his intense delivery. “He’s a really talented actor,” says Ume. “I just do the visual stuff.” Even then, if you look closely, you can still see moments where the illusion fails, as in the clip below where Fisher’s eyes and mouth glitch for a second as he puts the sunglasses on.

Although Ume’s point is that his deepfakes take a lot of work and a professional impersonator, it’s also clear that the technology will improve over time. Exactly how easy it will be to make seamless fakes in the future is difficult to predict, and experts are busy developing tools that can automatically identify fakes or verify unedited footage .

Ume, though, says he isn’t too worried about the future. We’ve developed such technology before and society’s conception of truth has more or less survived. “It’s like Photoshop 20 years ago, people didn’t know what photo editing was, and now they know about these fakes,” he says. As deepfakes become more and more of a staple in TV and movies, people’s expectations will change, as they did for imagery in the age of Photoshop. One thing’s for certain, says Ume, and it’s that the genie can’t be put back in the bottle. “Deepfakes are here to stay,” he says. “Everyone believes in it.”

Update March 5th, 12:11PM ET: Updated to note that Ume and Fisher has now restored the videos to the @deeptomcruise TikTok account.

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Evan Ferrante is in the Tom Cruise business, and business is booming. “Busiest and most lucrative year of my adult life,” he tells Inverse .

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Four years ago, times were tight for Evan Ferrante, an actor and producer who credibly calls himself the “leading Tom Cruise impressionist in the world.” His phone wasn’t ringing. He had just turned 40 and feared his career spent putting on the Cruise wig and jumping on couches was finally drying up.

“I was still impersonating Cruise, but very seldomly,” recalls Ferrante, now 44, whose stage name is “Not Tom Cruise.” “I had to take on three other side hustles. I’ve never worked so much in my life. I was a Lyft driver. I was a dog walker. I was hustling nonstop.”

These days, Ferrante’s business is still being Tom Cruise — and business is booming. During the first year of the pandemic, he pivoted to Cameo, which kept him and other celeb impersonators afloat. Ferrante was flooded with requests to cheer up bored, quarantined fans on birthdays and holidays — always in character as the Mission: Impossible star — and the response was heartening. (As one of his many five-star reviewers writes, “This was our second awesome video Not Tom Cruise has done for our son who is a military aviator in training. This guy is a total pro!”)

Then, in 2022, as the world was opening back up and Ferrante was resuming live event appearances, Top Gun: Maverick sold out theaters and restored Cruise to mainstream prominence. Ferrante couldn’t believe his luck.

“There wasn’t a day that went by last year that I didn’t receive an offer to perform live or in a commercial, film, TV, etc. — all thanks to Top Gun: Maverick ,” he says. “Busiest and most lucrative year of my adult life.”

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A brief perusal of his Cameo videos or TikTok channel confirms that Ferrante, clad in dark shades and a Risky Business -style wig, has Cruise down cold (or at least a “heightened version of Cruise,” as he calls it). The manic delivery, the choked laugh, the abrupt tonal shifts, and high-pitched “ Whoo! ” He can shift seamlessly between Top Gun , Jerry Maguire , and other characters, and he can cater his shtick to current events (a recent video shows him visiting the WGA picket line in character as Cruise, riffing on Magnolia ).

At events, corporate crowds eat him up. “Many treat me like a dancing monkey or a wind-up doll,” Ferrante says. “Many are respectful. A lot of them are just super-pumped to see a Tom Cruise look-alike with them. They want to do all the lines with me. They’re very handsy with me.”

“People turn and look, and they go, ‘Oh, my God, is that Tom Cruise?’” says Colin Paolo, a creative director in the corporate sphere who has hired Ferrante for nearly a dozen events. “These are grown people that will stand in line. I’m never 100 percent sure whether they actually grasp he is an impersonator. I’ve seen grown men — 6-foot-1, 6-foot-2 — on the phone to their wives saying, ‘I’m getting my picture taken with Tom Cruise!’” (Ferrante never aims to deceive anyone, though he says it happens sometimes, especially when he performs overseas.)

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Ferrante’s flourishing act speaks to Tom Cruise’s improbable endurance as a bankable — and perpetually youthful — screen icon now entering the fifth decade of his career, with blockbuster movies like Top Gun: Maverick and the upcoming Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One introducing him to new audiences.

It’s also reflective of a parasocial, celeb-obsessed culture in which people are hungry for personalized attention from their favorite stars. As A-listers like Cruise become increasingly sequestered and untouchable, doppelgangers such as Ferrante step in to provide the one-on-one connections with fans that neither the real Cruise, nor creepily realistic deepfake simulations , will.

“It’s just a fascinating character to explore, Tom Cruise,” Ferrante says. “I provide a window into his world, right? It’s almost like Mary Poppins with her bags of endless things. I can dip into this bag, and with enough imagination, I can come up with a thousand scenarios that would be funny with Cruise. You don’t know what Cruise’s life or existence is like, and I’m going to fill in the blanks. I’m going to create this mythology, this lore.”

Evan Ferrante with Tom Cruise

Ferrante with the real Tom Cruise.

Born 17 years after Tom Cruise, Evan Ferrante was raised by an Italian Catholic father and Russian Jewish mother in Armonk, New York. He became a child actor in the 1980s, appearing in commercials and soap operas, like the short-lived Swans Crossing , but says his ethnically ambiguous features made it hard to book roles.

In 1993, he received his SAG card, but the endless auditions became grueling. “It takes its toll on you psychologically,” Ferrante says. “You lose a little bit of your childhood.”

“I sometimes don’t know where Evan Ferrante begins or ends or Tom Cruise begins or ends.”

In 1997, Ferrante was a freshman at Boston University when his hallmate, an aspiring filmmaker named Alex Merkin, noticed that his voice and mannerisms resembled Tom Cruise’s. “ Jerry Maguire had just come out, and it was doing really well,” recalls Merkin. “I told him he should try to learn some of those lines. So he did, and it was, like, uncanny. Almost immediately, it was insane.”

At the time, Merkin did a bad Jean-Claude Van Damme impression. The two teamed up, aiming to impress girls.

“We would try to break the ice by knocking on doors, and we would both do impressions and try to meet women and go on dates,” says Merkin. “It was so good that everywhere we would go, through the next four years and after, it would be like: ‘OK, do the Tom Cruise impression.’ It would just become a party trick. I actually had him record my voicemail greeting as Tom Cruise.”

Once Ferrante embraced the talent, “it was one of those things where it’s like you have a twin that died in the womb, and it’s like you have an evil twin brother — you can’t escape it,” Merkin says. “He was not going to be able to separate himself from it. Not that he wanted to.”

After graduation, Ferrante was ready to leave his Tom Cruise act behind. He was tired of it. But then came the early YouTube days, which coincided with heavy tabloid interest in Cruise’s couch-jumping exploits. In 2006, at a girlfriend’s urging, Ferrante uploaded a crudely shot “demo reel” of his various Cruise characters to YouTube. The video currently has more than 200,000 views.

“It got the attention of some friends of mine in the industry, who had ideas to create a series around this persona that I created, this heightened version of Cruise,” he says.

Soon enough, Ferrante was hired to portray Cruise in a Funny or Die video series, and his party trick became a career. Since then, Ferrante has performed at countless corporate events, parodied Cruise in commercials and cartoons, and pumped out thousands of Cameo messages (current rate: $100 for a personalized video, $387 for a live video call). Movie studios have even hired him to serve as Cruise’s voice match in early cuts of movie trailers.

At times, he was hard up for cash and said yes to appearances he later regretted. There was, for instance, the demoralizing time he agreed to dance in his tighty-whities at several ’80s-themed nights in the Midwest.

“It was all unhappily married, nicotine-stained women in Dubuque, Iowa, and Fredericksburg, Indiana,” Ferrante recalls. “They were just clawing at my underwear. I felt like a Chippendales dancer.”

“They were just clawing at my underwear. I felt like a Chippendales dancer.”

Sometimes, playing Tom Cruise is a joy. Other times, it’s a source of psychic confusion.

“It’s an identity crisis, like Jekyll and Hyde,” Ferrante says. “I sometimes don’t know where Evan Ferrante begins or ends or Tom Cruise begins or ends.”

Last year, when Top Gun: Maverick came out, Ferrante remembers thinking, “‘How big could this possibly be?’ And it was way bigger than I ever imagined. Almost every day, I’d get some sort of inquiry — mainly corporate appearances. Commercial work, voiceover work. There was an incessant demand for Maverick. And it did not stop for well over a year!”

Recently, Ferrante’s life has been a little like George Clooney’s in Up in the Air , except instead of traveling around the country firing employees, he travels around getting employees fired up — usually in character as Maverick, the ace naval aviator. He’ll play “Danger Zone,” the bombastic Top Gun theme, as his entrance music, and fist-bump all the middle managers as he races up to the stage. Or sometimes he’s in character as Ethan Hunt from Mission: Impossible .

Cruise’s oeuvre “pairs well with corporate America.”

Last year, Ferrante performed at so many corporate events in so many cities that he has to start rifling through his 1099 forms just to remember them all. Much of it’s a blur. There was the Snapchat event, the opening of an Alamo Drafthouse somewhere he can’t recall, the fintech company that flew him in a helicopter and feted him with caviar, and the FedEx event where he was tasked with entertaining FedEx presidents from all over.

“All these events, they’re all properly liquored up,” Ferrante says. “Everyone is pretty three sheets to the wind. They come here to let loose.”

“I’ve used him on ‘Remission: Possible’ for pharmaceutical companies,” says Paolo, the creative director. “In the corporate sphere, not to be catty or anything, but they’re pretty much behind the times — they like things that have been done and proven. Like Hollywood, right? They like Top Gun . They like Mission: Impossible. Risky Business is something that not a lot of them understood. But those other two — and since every two years is a new Mission: Impossible — the world opens up for Evan.”

Cruise’s oeuvre “pairs well with corporate America,” Ferrante observes. “With Top Gun , you have ‘I feel the need…’; Jerry Maguire , ‘show me the money’ for anything in fintech or finance.”

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While technology companies pay him handsomely, the tech industry may also be Ferrante’s undoing as artificial-intelligence-generated deepfake software grows increasingly sophisticated. In 2021, a company called Metaphysic worked with a Cruise look-alike named Miles Fisher to create startlingly convincing videos of Cruise teeing off at a golf course, among other activities. It wasn’t really Cruise — just his face digitally “mapped” onto Fisher’s — but the videos fooled countless viewers. (Chris Umé, the co-founder of Metaphysic, did not respond to requests for comment.)

Though Ferrante had nothing to do with those videos, he was initially blamed and had his Instagram account temporarily deactivated. The actor had participated in other deepfake projects previously. “I was probably the very first actor to work with a deepfake technician/engineer,” Ferrante says, referencing a 2019 video in which he helped artificially place Tom Cruise’s face over Christian Bale’s in American Psycho .

Soon, he believes, studios will pay enormous sums to license the digital likeness of famous movie stars in perpetuity. “They’ll pay Tom Cruise $10 billion, whatever, for the forever usage of his likeness. That is certainly coming into being right now. It’s not science fiction.”

Ferrante reenacts an infamous Tom Cruise moment.

Ferrante reenacts an infamous Tom Cruise moment.

Ferrante knows he can’t do this forever. As Rear Adm. Cain (Ed Harris) tells Maverick in the new Top Gun , “The future is coming, and you’re not in it.”

“I’m winding down,” Ferrante says. “I would say I’m in the twilight of my career.”

For one thing, he’s a dad now — he and his partner have a 2-year-old son — and he doesn’t have the same energy he once had. (No, the toddler doesn’t know who Tom Cruise is: “I have this Tom Cruise pillow here. He thinks that’s Daddy,” Ferrante says.)

For another, Ferrante figures he’ll need a more stable income to support his growing family. He now complements his Cruise income by working as a real estate agent for a luxury firm based in Beverly Hills. It’s not exactly clear which is the day job and which is the side hustle.

“One day the phone may stop ringing.”

If Ferrante does hang up his Cruise wig, he wants to go out with a bang. He muses about writing a book someday espousing what he’s learned as a Cruise impersonator and what successful attributes Cruise has that could be parlayed into corporate America. (“It’ll almost be like a mission statement, like from Jerry Maguire .”) He then wants to design a keynote presentation around it and begin presenting his own speech to corporate audiences. He believes Cruise’s “incredible discipline” is the main attribute separating him from the man himself.

For now, Ferrante is just riding the wave of Cruise fever wherever it takes him.

“I was in Chicago a week ago,” he tells me. “I don’t know where I’ll end up next. I’m sure I’ll get a call tomorrow. One day the phone may stop ringing, and I’m prepared for that and I’m transitioning, but every time I transition, they end up sucking me back in.”

This article was originally published on June 28, 2023

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For Metro Detroit Tom Cruise lookalike, life is no Mission: Impossible

Rick dossin of eastpointe is in cruise control as his hollywood counterpart is back in a very big way..

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With last year's massive success of "Top Gun: Maverick" and the latest "Mission: Impossible" film now in theaters, Tom Cruise is firmly back in Hollywood's driver's seat, and Rick Dossin couldn't be happier.

"Good for him," says the 55-year-old Eastpointer. "And good for me!"

It's obvious why it's good for Cruise. But Dossin is excited because he happens to look just like the megastar, a resemblance the Macomb County native has parlayed into a semi-professional side gig as a Cruise lookalike.

His travels as Maverick have taken him across the country, where he occasionally appears at '80s parties, corporate events and even the odd high school reunion. Locally you might catch him at a summer fair or a festival, where his tassel of brown hair and those familiar black shades have caused many a double take, and he's happy to smile for the camera, take a picture and even throw out a Cruise catchphrase ("Talk to me, Goose") or two.

It wasn't always Tom Cruise for whom Dossin was mistaken.

"I used to get a lot of Christopher Reeve or, 'Hey, Superman!'" says Dossin. "I still get it once in a while, but it was never photos or anything like that."

Now he leans into it, often sporting a clean black V-neck T-shirt and sportcoat, his black wraparound shades (usually a $10 pair from a gas station) always within reach. His haircut isn't as untamed as Cruise's current locks, but is a little more controlled.

At 5-foot-11-inches, he's about 4 inches taller than Cruise, but who's counting? Either way, he looks the part — and he's having fun with it.

By day and by night

By day, you might catch Cruise, er, Dossin working his day job as a truck driver, transporting janitorial supplies to various buildings in downtown Detroit and the greater Metro Detroit area. At night, he loves going to concerts, especially '80s-era artists, where his signature look sometimes grants him special and even backstage access.

He's met Sammy Hagar and the dudes from Night Ranger, and Terri Nunn, whose biggest hit with Berlin is the "Top Gun" love theme "Take My Breath Away," once greeted him with a full open-arms hug. He's pals with some of the guys in local '80s tribute bands — lookalikes of a feather flock together — and he made sure not to miss Bret Michaels' Parti Gras concert Thursday night at Pine Knob, where he scored a picture with the Poison frontman.

"He's a super straight shooter, and he’s really easy to get along with," says Craig Janos of Warren, a friend and a local Jack Nicholson impersonator who has known Dossin for several years. For awhile, they tried putting together a dual act based on "A Few Good Men," but it never took off the way they wanted it to.

But they have managed to cause a stir together, like the time they paired up at a Pistons-Lakers game in December 2015 — it was Kobe Bryant's final visit to the Palace of Auburn Hills — and they were mobbed by so many fans looking for selfies that they needed help from security to exit the arena.

That time got a little scary, Janos says, but for the most part people are kind and respectful.

"It doesn't take long for someone to come up to him and ask for a picture," he says.

A few years ago, Dossin was a part of Michigan State Madness, the annual kickoff to the Spartans' basketball season, where he was driven onto the court in a black SUV and appeared alongside Tom Izzo and the rest of the MSU men's basketball team. He never broke character, and he kept it Cruise the entire time.

Last year, following "Maverick's" incredible box office success, Dossin appeared in an in-theater advertisement for Emagine Theaters, alongside Emagine's Paul Glantz and Fox 2 anchor and WNIC-FM (100.3) morning man Jay Towers.

"If you live here, everybody has seen that guy, everybody knows that guy in some way," says Towers, who has been running into Dossin at events and Halloween parties for years. "Rick shows up and he looks like Tom Cruise. 'It's the Tom Cruise guy!' But what's funnier is he's doing Tom Cruise from 1986, not Tom Cruise today. He's become a really funny conversation piece."

Dossin knows that and he uses it to his advantage, Towers says. "He's in on the joke, he gets it," he says.

A decade of being Maverick

Dossin grew up in Eastpointe, the second youngest of six, and graduated from South Lake High School in St. Clair Shores. He's never smoked or drank — sitting down at a bar for an interview following a screening of the latest "Mission: Impossible" movie, he orders a cranberry juice — and he's never been married.

"I never woke up going, 'I gotta get married and have kids!'" he says. "And I'm kind of glad I didn't."

Having no ties at home makes it easier for him to pick up and go to Texas or Colorado or California, wherever he might get booked for an appearance, he says. Those appearances of course slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic, but things are back up and running now, he says.

Dossin dabbled in modeling and acting in his early years; he once appeared in a Lover's Lane ad, not as Tom Cruise, and he played a cop in Billy Crystal's baseball movie "61*," which was filmed locally in summer 2000.

Dossin began taking the Tom Cruise business seriously after he appeared on "The Wendy Williams Show" in 2012 , during a segment about celebrity lookalikes. After that he went from smiling and nodding when people pointed out his uncanny Cruiseness to making appearances and turning his looks into a business.

In that business, "Top Gun" is his bread and butter, and he's got a flight suit, aviator shades and the Navy whites to complete the look. In his travels he's met several other Tom Cruise lookalikes, and he even crashed with another Cruise during a trip to California a few years ago.

He struggled early on to figure out what to charge; he didn't want to ask too much and price himself out of a job, he says. He now charges $150 an hour for appearances, and he'll even throw in a "show me the money!" for good measure.

While the real Tom Cruise has had his public ups and downs, Dossin — who admits he's "not a huge movie guy" — has always been a fan, dating back to Cruise's "Risky Business" days.

"Like when he jumped up on the couch? I don't really see what was so bad about that," says Dossin of Cruise's infamous 2005 "Oprah" appearance where he declared his love for Katie Holmes by leaping onto the talk show host's furniture. "You see other people doing way worse things."

Dossin has never had the opportunity to meet Cruise, but he holds out hope that one day he'll get the chance.

"Oh, that would be the tops," he says, flashing that winning Tom Cruise smile.

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Deepfake videos of Tom Cruise went viral. Their creator hopes they boost awareness.

The creator of a series of deepfake Tom Cruise videos that garnered more than 11 million views on TikTok said he never wanted to trick people.

But since he has, he's hoping the sudden influx of attention can help bring greater awareness to the continued evolution of the technology that can create incredibly realistic fake videos of people.

“The important thing is, we didn’t want to fool people at any moment,” Chris Ume, 31, the Belgian visual effects artist behind the viral deepfakes, said in an interview. “If I can help in creating awareness, or even work on detection in the future, I would love to.”

Ume created the four videos, in which it appeared to show the Hollywood star playing golf, doing a magic coin trick, and falling over while telling a story about the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Three of them went viral, attracting attention on TikTok and across the internet.

And though most people realized quickly that the videos were fake, even experts were impressed by their quality.

Chris Ume used a combination of visual effects and editing software to make Miles Fisher look almost identical to Tom Cruise.

“My first thought was they’re incredibly well done,” said digital image forensics expert Hany Farid, who is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and specializes in image analysis and misinformation. “They’re funny, they’re clever.”

But they also offer a warning: Deepfake technology that has emerged in recent years continues to evolve and improve. And while deepfake videos have not yet been effectively used in many misinformation campaigns, the danger is growing.

“In the early days, you could see the potential, but it wasn’t even close to being there,” Farid said. “But this felt to me like it was a real step, like we just took a big step forward in the development of this technology.”

Cruise did not respond to a request for comment. Meanwhile his impersonator, Miles Fisher, replied to an NBC News email but said he did not wish to comment further.

Synthetic digital content, otherwise known as a deepfake, can include anything from an image or video in which one person or object is visually or audibly manipulated to say and do something that is fabricated. In the case of the @deeptomcruise TikTok account, Ume used a combination of visual effects and editing software to make Fisher look almost identical to the "Mission Impossible" actor. 

Other manipulated videos have gained traction in recent years. A video produced by BuzzFeed warning the public about deepfake technology featured the actor Jordan Peele's realistic-looking impersonation of former President Barack Obama in 2018 that gained more than 8 million views on YouTube, and more recently other videos have emerged involving the former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg .

While analyzing the @deeptomcruise TikTok videos, Farid said he found it difficult to detect common discrepancies that have previously been spotted in other deepfakes — such as glitches around the face, particularly when it has been partially obscured by a moving hand.

He said he was able to identify inconsistencies particularly around the eyes, although “they were very minor.”

“This one was very polished," Farid added. "It was long and in high resolution."            

Although Ume used sophisticated visual effects editing, advancements in digital editing through smartphone apps such as Reface, Facetune and even Snapchat have made techniques like face-swapping and image altering more accessible and could cause the possible weaponization of deepfakes, experts say.

However Matt Groh, a research assistant with the Affective Computing group at the MIT Media Lab, said there were “still a lot of constraints on what this can do.”

“Our imagination can quickly run wild, and just assume it's really good on all fronts — and maybe someday it can be,” he said. “When you have a bunch of different videos, rather than a single video, you start to see where some of these imperfections lie.”

To allay the fears of experts like Farid, Ume said he would like to see regulations brought in to allow responsible use of deepfake technology, and for social media networks to create labels for such content.

Detection software isn’t good enough right now, he said. 

“That’s obvious because these three videos weren’t detected by the models," he said.

Since his videos went viral on TikTok, Ume has released a visual effects breakdown of how he created them, in an attempt to help educate people on how they’re made and how difficult they can be to produce.

“It’s not something you can do at home,” said Ume, who is part of a team of deepfake artists at Deep Voodoo — a visual effects studio assembled by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the show “South Park.”

The TikTok videos were so convincing, Ume said, because of his expertise, as well as the ability to work with someone like Fisher who could impersonate Cruise so well.

TikTok updated its policy, after releasing a statement in August 2020 , that prohibits synthetic or manipulated content which "misleads users by distorting the truth of events and cause harm to the subject of the video, other persons, or society."

However, TikTok did not take any action against @deeptomcruise or the videos it posted because it did not go against its community guidelines. The social media platform declined to comment.

While the deepfake Cruise videos are entertaining and were “never really meant to be deceptive,” Farid said, there are “legitimate concerns” about how this could inspire others to create similar fabricated content.

“Think about the implications for national security,” Farid said. “Think about the implications if I create a video of Jeff Bezos saying that Amazon stock profits are down 20 percent — how much can I move the markets? How many billions of dollars before anybody figures out that it's fake?”

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Bianca Britton is a reporter for NBC News' Social Newsgathering team based in London.

See Katie Holmes' rare photos of look-alike Suri, her daughter with ex-husband Tom Cruise

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Katie Holmes is celebrating her mini-me daughter Suri Cruise 's birthday with some rare pictures.

To celebrate her daughter turning 15 on Sunday, Holmes, who is famously private about the teen, posted three Instagram photos of Suri taken throughout the years. Homes shares the teen with ex-husband Tom Cruise , to whom she was married from 2006 to 2012.

In one of the pictures, Holmes cradles her look-alike daughter in arms. In another, Suri smiles for the camera while giving mom a big hug.

"Happy 15th Birthday Sweetheart! I love you!!!!!!!!" Holmes wrote in the caption. "I can’t believe you are already 15!"

Other stars gushed over the cute photos in the comments.

"Happy birthday," commented Viola Davis, adding a heart emoji.

"Happy happy 15th!!" wrote "Good Witch" star Bailee Madison. "Can’t believe she is 15 now. All my love to you both"

Though Holmes is known for keeping her daughter out of the spotlight, the "Dawson's Creek" star, 42, opened up about bonding with Suri during the coronavirus pandemic  in her November cover story for Vogue Australia .

"Hobbies such as sewing, painting and writing became new hallmarks of satisfaction and having had time at home to just be," she wrote. "To listen. To live for a moment in time without the pressure of results and instead appreciate the natural rhythms of mother and daughter was the most precious gift."

Katie Holmes shares rare photo with her mini-me daughter Suri Cruise

Holmes also recalled how spending time with a friend with a young child made her reminisce about raising Suri.

"Taking time in Washington Square Park with a friend whose little child was taking his first steps brought me back to when my own child began to walk," she wrote. "I felt nostalgic and in awe of the power of time and the continuation of life."

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AI Reimagines Tom Cruise As Marvel & DC Superheroes - The Results Are Perfect

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Hollywood may not yet have found a place for Tom Cruise in a DC or Marvel movie, but that hasn't stopped fans from dropping him in the dream roles they'd love to see him handle. Esh-El ( @esheffects ), whose Instagram bio reads, "Exploring the fusion of art and artificial intelligence," pondered what Cruise might look like if he were to be cast in a superhero movie, leading to a post featuring a collection of iconic heroes as played by the "Mission: Impossible" star.

The first image is Cruise as Captain America, which seems like a pairing that hasn't been pushed by fans enough. Both are legendary heroes who don't seem to age and are often seen hanging from helicopters or dodging traffic on a motorbike at high speed. Others depict Cruise in equally celebrated roles, including Superman and Batman. He's also shown as Green Lantern, one of the  five characters Cruise should play in James Gunn's DCU . Esh-El even proves that if the actor wanted to, he could pull off some younger crime fighters as well. Almost.

Tom Cruise is a dream as Nightwing but brings back nightmares as Spider-Man

Not to state the obvious, but Tom Cruise has a few years on  Nightwing , aka Dick Grayson. The former Boy Wonder is around his mid-20s, which would make things difficult for an actor in their 60s — although that doesn't stop Cruise from looking awesome in Nightwing's domino mask. Another entry that seems almost a perfect fit, but just ever so slightly off, is the Flash. Sure, Cruise might be the fastest film star alive, but the longer you look, the more former Flash Grant Gustin starts staring back through Esh-El's work. Similarly, Green Arrow also posits an option for Cruise, demanding the kind of physical role the action star is known for, but he too is in his mid-20s (and blond).

The character in the lineup Cruise might seem the most mismatched with is actually the one he came closest to being — he might not be a great fit now, but the action star is among the many  actors who were almost cast as Spider-Man . Back in 1985, B-movie machine Cannon Films hoped to make its own Spider-Man movie with a Cronenbergian twist, with the proposed picture directed by Tobe Hooper seeing Peter Parker become a giant tarantula. On a web and a prayer, Cruise was approached to take the lead. Unfortunately, he was heading in a different direction, eventually starring in "Top Gun" only a year later. Who knows? Maybe his spider-sense was tingling.

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Tom Cruise Impersonator Believes In ‘Positive Output’ Of Deepfake Videos

by Kristin Myers Posted on December 28, 2021 at 3:30 pm PST

The mastermind behind the Tom Cruise deepfake videos on TikTok has come forward to talk about the technology that has made him a star.

Actor Miles Fisher is a Tom Cruise lookalike who had gained over 3 million followers on TikTok for his videos using deepfake technology in order to impersonate the “Mission Impossible” actor.

In an exclusive interview on the Today Show with NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff , Fisher reveals what it’s like to be “the unofficial face of this deep fake movement.”

Fisher Finds Himself On The ‘Bleeding Edge Of Technology’

Miles Fisher

Fisher bears a strong resemblance to Cruise in real life, so he decided to contact Belgian visual effects specialist Chris Umé to help him make the videos for fun. The duo revealed that they are able to create the parody videos in about five or six days.

“As I find myself the unofficial face of this deep fake movement, it’s important to learn and I’m fascinated by this,” Fisher said in an interview on Tuesday. “This is the bleeding edge of technology.”

“I think we’ve created the first deepfake that’s so realistic, that a large majority of people have seen,” he added.

It should be noted that Tom Cruise has not asked the duo to stop the parody videos. The account is not monetized, so Fisher is not making money off of his parody videos.

Fisher And Umé Create Deepfake Tech Company Called Metaphysic

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The duo was so successful at creating these parody videos using deepfake technology that they decided to work together to create their own company called Metaphysic.

“How can we use this technology by creating kind of identity rights?” Fisher asked. “Let’s say Tom Cruise gave us the consent for this likeness, where we could move beyond just small parody clips. Everybody gets paid for that intellectual property.”

They believe that deepfake technology is “morally neutral,” adding, “As it develops, the positive output will so far outweigh the negative, nefarious uses.”

However, not everyone is convinced.

In 2019, University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron had previously told NBC News that “Deepfakes can cause real, concrete harm. Whether that’s a deepfake sex video, or a fake porn video targeting political enemies, or a well-timed deepfake, may be used to cause harm to an IPO. And, in unrest, if you time it just right, you can incite violence.”

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The threat of deepfake technology being used for nefarious purposes has been heavily debated in Congress, with some offering concerns that it could be used for political propaganda.

In recent years, famous celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence , Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Zuckerberg , and former President George W. Bush have all been victims of convincing deepfake technology that resulted in viral videos.

In a statement, the FBI told NBC News that it is closely tracking deepfake technology and “will continue to investigate any violations of federal law and actors that may use them for nefarious acts.”

As for Fisher, his fans hope that they will continue to get to watch the Tom Cruise lookalike continue to perform magic tricks, practice golf, and play the guitar.

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Prepare for a double take. Tom Cruise’s look-alike wore a Top Gun costume to Comic-Con and pretty much fooled everyone there. Jerome LeBlanc, a professional Cruise impersonator from San Diego, California, had fun with his Cruise-esque looks at San Diego Comic-Con last week. Not only did he wear the costume that Cruise’s character LT. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell wears in 1986’s Top Gun , but LeBlanc also went to the exact location where several key scenes in Top Gun were filmed, according to the OC Register.

Per the OC Register, LeBlanc surprised fans at San Diego’s Kansas City Barbeque (where some barroom scenes in Top Gun were shot) on Thursday, July 18, dressed head to toe like Maverick. Dressed in aviator glasses and pilot’s jacket — with his hair pushed back to Cruise’s signature quiff — LeBlanc looked like a dead ringer for the Oscar-nominated actor. ( See photos here .)

LeBlanc’s appearance was especially exciting given that Cruise had revealed the trailer for Top Gun ‘s sequel , Top Gun: Maverick , at San Diego Comic-Con that exact day. Unfortunately, the look-alike didn’t run into the real-life Cruise. “We tried to accidentally bump into him,” LeBlanc told the OC Register. “It didn’t work out.”

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View this post on Instagram I had some Risky Business to take care of in Chicago. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @magnificent.events #tomcruise #maverick #petemitchell #lieutenant #topgunmaverick #tomcat #chicago #topgunpilot #filmset #paramount #entertainment #celebrity #moviestar #dangerzone #needforspeed #topgun2 #inverted #pickoftheday #smile #topgunonmidway #midwaymaverick A post shared by Top Gun • Maverick (@californiatomcruise) on Jul 20, 2019 at 9:34pm PDT

This isn’t the first time LeBlanc has surprised fans at Kansas City Barbeque, which has become tourist destination since the release of Top Gun . (Some memorabilia, including the piano that Goose plays “Great Balls of Fire” and signed autographs, are on display at the restaurant.) According to the restaurant’s owner, Chris Coffey, LeBlanc has frequented the spot a lot to shock tourists and take photos with fans. “He’s been coming here for awhile,” Coffey told the OC Register. “He knows all the regulars. They all know him.”

View this post on Instagram Maverick outside Conan, Comic Con 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Duffle Bag & Jacket: @cockpitusa @tmz_tv @entertainmenttonight @comic_con #comiccon #donutbar #tomcruise #chefsantiago #maverick #flightdeck #petemitchell #lieutenant #topgunmaverick #tomcat #sandiego #f14 #topgunpilot #filmset #missionimpossible #paramount #entertainment #celebrity#california #moviestar #dangerzone #needforspeed #topgun2 #inverted #pickoftheday #smile #topgunonmidway #midwaymaverick #calove A post shared by Top Gun • Maverick (@californiatomcruise) on Jul 22, 2019 at 11:33am PDT
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View this post on Instagram We are a nation of many. A diverse collection of incredible stories. This year, Visit The USA’s roving content creation labs will travel the country in search of people, places and experiences which tell the story of the USA. You know Maverick’s story already… So come visit the USS Midway Museum in San Diego to hear about its history and also the stories from the docents aboard. #ipw19 #brandusa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @ussmidwaymuseum @visittheusa #aircraftcarrier #tomcruise #maverick #ipw19 #flightdeck #petemitchell #lieutenant #topgunmaverick #tomcat #sandiego #f14 #topgunpilot #filmset #missionimpossible #paramount #entertainment #celebrity#california #moviestar #dangerzone #needforspeed #topgun2 #inverted #pickoftheday #smile #topgunonmidway #midwaymaverick #calove A post shared by Top Gun • Maverick (@californiatomcruise) on Jun 5, 2019 at 9:26am PDT

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10 rarely seen photos of Katie Holmes' teenage daughter Suri

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We don't often see photos of actress Katie Holmes and her 16-year-old daughter, Suri , whom she shares with former husband Tom Cruise – but when we do, the pair look so alike.

Katie , 44, has tried to keep her daughter out of the limelight over the years, however, much to her fans' delight, she has shared the occasional photo of Suri on her Instagram page and posed for photos with Suri at a handful of memorable events.

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Katie and Suri looked so happy together at Z100's iHeartRadio Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden back in 2017. Suri's star dress and red hair bow were so pretty.

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Suri had a ball with her mother at the Oklahoma City Thunder Vs New York Knicks game in 2017. She looked in her element all cosy in a pink coat enjoying her lollipop.

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Sweet Suri looked like her famous mother's double at a basketball game between the Detroit Pistons and the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center in January 2017.

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Katie and Suri posed for photographers at the hit musical Finding Neverland on Broadway in July 2016 alongside other cast members.

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Suri looked very cool in her red and white dress with a sleeveless denim jacket as she attended Nickelodeon's 28th Annual Kids' Choice Awards with Katie in 2015.

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Katie shared an adorable throwback photo of her daughter on Mother's Day, writing: "I am so grateful to be a mom to the sweetest daughter. Happy Mother’s Day to all of the moms!!!!"

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This looked like the best hug between mother and daughter. Katie captioned the snap: "Happy 15th Birthday Sweetheart! I love you!!!!!!!! I can’t believe you are already 15!"

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Suri wore the prettiest floral headdress to celebrate her birthday, with her star parent posting: "Birthday vibes," with several heart emojis.

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We adored Suri's cute birthday tiara from her special day in 2018. Katie simply posted a long series of double heart emojis for her daughter.

The same year, Katie shared a photo of herself with a very young Suri who had the sweetest bob haircut with a fringe.

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Cruise ship worker reveals gruelling reason people quit their jobs on the boats

Cruise ship worker reveals gruelling reason people quit their jobs on the boats

It's a pretty legitimate reason to be honest.

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Thousands of people silently go about their days to make sure cruise ship holidays go by without a problem for those who have paid big money for a few weeks on board.

Whether you're cruising around the Mediterranean, Caribbean, or Scandinavia , the staff that run cruise ships spend their days and nights working to make sure everything is as it should be.

From making sure suites costing £3,100 a night are in tip top order to pouring you drinks and cooking food for travellers and staff alike , it's hard work.

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But that hard work can have an impact.

Lucy Southerton, from Birmingham , started working on cruise ships when she was just 19 years old.

Now in her late 20s, she documents her time working on the vessels across social media , including Instagram and YouTube . She also runs her own website cruisingascrew.com .

And in one recent video, Lucy revealed the reasons why some staff on board just can't hack it.

It's not surprising or shameful either, with the schedule extremely taxing.

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"The long hours... I mean this was inevitable right," Lucy says. "The long hours are definitely a big reason people go home, they just can't hack it.

"Mostly people from Western countries. It's a shock to the system whereas my friends from India said if they worked in India they'd work this much and earn less money. So that's just an example.

"People from the UK... 14 hour days aren't the norm. 12 hours of work and two hours of breaks."

Lucy adds: "To work 12 hour shifts every day is a shock to the system and some people are like this is ridiculous and I don't want to work this much. Which is completely understandable."

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But for the cruise ship worker, the benefits of these long shifts are more than worth it. Especially when you consider where you're spending your down time compared to where you might be if, for example, you lived in UK.

Firstly there's no worrying about food given its part of the package that comes with a cruise ship employment contract. And your cabin is only small so the amount you have to clean and look after wont take much time.

Then there's the locations you find yourself. She says: "But the pay off comes in when you do get time off. And even if you don't get a day off, which you probably wont, you're in Dubrovnik, you're in Miami, you're in the Bahamas, you're in Aruba.

"If I worked at home I'd get a weekend off but Id spend that weekend food shopping, meal prepping, cleaning the house. "Yes I would see my friends and do things I love but it's not as exciting as exploring a brand new country, a brand new city.

"It's a work hard play hard thing. You're going to work really hard but when you get time off you're going to be in an incredible destination with hopefully some amazing people. And it really is a great experience."

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Suri Cruise stepped out again in what appears to be her go-to jacket.

The 17-year-old daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise went for a stroll around New York City on Tuesday wearing her Maje Western-style shearling coat ( $2,695 $1,347). She paired the pricey outwear with cozy-looking drawstring pants and celebrity-beloved Birkenstock suede clogs ($160).

Suri carried her favorite water bottle throughout the jaunt with a friend and did not appear to be recognized by passersby as they enjoyed their day on the town.

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The Hollywood scion previously wore the jacket while out with Holmes, 45, to whom she looks identical. The “Dawson’s Creek” alum wore an oversize denim jacket during the February outing to complement her daughter’s jeans.

It appears Suri has more in common with her mom than just appearances, as Page Six broke the news in December that the progeny earned a starring role in her school’s play.

We heard Suri played Morticia Addams in “The Addams Family: A New Musical.”

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“She was amazing,” one impressed audience member told us, adding that Suri did not name-drop her famous parents in her bio.

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Instead, she graciously thanked her teachers, fellow student cast and the crew who worked behind the scenes of the production.

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Suri reportedly has been estranged from her “Top Gun: Maverick” star father since he and Holmes finalized their divorce in August 2012.

The “Thank You for Smoking” actress received sole custody of Suri, with Cruise getting visitation rights.

“Life is a challenge,” Cruise, 61, said a year after the divorce . “To be 50 and have experiences and think you have everything under control, and then it hits you — that’s what life is. … Life is tragicomic. You need a certain sense of humor.”

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