Tom Cruise finally won the Oscar that for years had seemed like a sort of urban legend about him, after being nominated four times and losing all the statuettes. With this gesture, Hollywood recognizes not just an actor, but the last representative of a lineage: that of the star-performer who was able to survive the rise of superheroes, the era of disenchantment and the reign of the algorithm without losing form or magnetism. Cruise embodies an intense and millimetric masculinity, shaped by discipline and risks.
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