Tom Cruise takes the mission of giving a birthday gift very seriously.
In fact, the Top Gun star has made sure that former costar Dakota Fanning gets an extra special present from him every year, a tradition that started when he played her dad in 2005’s War of the Worlds.
“I turned 11 on War of the Worlds when we worked together,” she explained on The Kelly Clarkson Show June 5, “and he gave me my first cellphone for that birthday. It was a Motorola Razr.”
The 30-year-old joked that while she “didn’t have anyone to call” at the time, she had wanted a Razr “so bad.”
“I must have been talking about it a lot,” she laughed, “because that’s what he got me. It was such a great memory.”
But Tom’s presents didn’t stop there, as the 61-year-old has continued sending her birthday gifts.
“He always sends me the same thing every year, after the cellphone,” she said. “I loved shoes when I was little and I started to be able to fit into really small adult shoes when I was on the War of the Worlds press tour, so I was very excited about them. And so, from that birthday on, he always sends me shoes.”
