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Tom Cruise Sidesteps Talk About Trump’s Hollywood Tariffs at ‘Mission: Impossible’ Press Stop: ‘We’d Rather Answer Questions About the Movie’

Tom Cruise quickly moved past a question about President Trump's proposed Hollywood tariffs during a 'Mission: Impossible' press conference in Seoul.

Tom Cruise kept a “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” press conference moving in Seoul Thursday evening when asked about President Trump’s proposal for tariffs on films “produced in foreign lands,” and how such a policy might apply to the globe-trotting espionage blockbuster. Trump initially unveiled his intentions in a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday evening, calling foreign incentives to move production overseas a “national security threat” and writing in all caps that “WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!” The announcement sparked widespread confusion in the industry, not exactly eased by the White House’s follow-up statement that “no final decisions have been made yet on “putting a tariff on movies.” The “Mission: Impossible” press event in Seoul featured a panel that included director Christopher McQuarrie and co-stars Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff and Greg Tarzan Davis.

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