Spielberg, Cruise, Kidman: Hollywood attends the Paris Olympics

Hollywood The event could not wait until the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and several of its stars, such as Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg and Nicole Kidman, were seen in the stands of the venues. Olympics in Paris.

In it Arena Bercy, The large concert hall set up for the Paris Games was this time filled with music from the film series starring Cruise, “Mission: Impossible,” a nod that caused a stir on social media.

The star of “Top Gun” was received with honors as soon as he arrived in the French capital, being named Knight of Arts and Letters by the French authorities, before appearing in the stands during the gymnastics tests behind Greta Gerwigdirector of “Barbie.”

Simone BilesAmerican gymnastics megastar can boast of having attracted a legion of Hollywood stars. “She has swept the board! What an honour to have been so close,” she posted. Lady Gaga on social media after one of the athlete’s passes on the balance beam.

After her performance at the opening ceremony, the singer and actress is enjoying the Games and her fans, to whom she let listen to some fragments of her next album from the retractable roof of her limousine.

Ambassadors

Australians linked to American cinema are also making themselves known in Paris, like the leading actress in “Barbie” Margot Robbiewhich was seen at the opening ceremony.

Baz Luhrmann, director of “Moulin Rouge” and “Elvis” who never separates himself from the almighty of fashion Anna Wintouralso sat in the stands during the gymnastics events, and Nicole Kidman (“Eyes Wide Shut,” “Moulin Rouge”) is everywhere, even in the audience at the skateboarding events.

Her omnipresence is partly explained by her status as ambassador for a watchmaking house that is the official timekeeper of the Olympic Games. Similarly, American Jessica Chastain (“Zero Dark Thirty,” “Interstellar”), photographed in the gymnastics stands, is the face of a major brand that dresses the members of “Team USA.”

Basketball fan

The director’s passion for sport Spike Lee (“Do the Right Thing”, “Malcolm X”) cannot be disputed. A die-hard fan of the New York Knicks, the filmmaker, always dressed in colourful hats and glasses, naturally attended a basketball game of the American “Dream Team” in Lille (northern France).

And, of course, the legendary director Steven Spielberg (“Jaws”, “ET”, etc.), who could be seen alongside Tom Cruise in the rain during the opening ceremony.

“I love this moment, when the audience knows the show is about to begin, a great show tells a great story,” the filmmaker said in a trailer broadcast by American television network NBC before the Games.

The ceremony set the bar very high, and there is no doubt that Hollywood’s dream factory will be involved in four years to make the event in Los Angeles even better.

After the show in Paris, a columnist for Los Angeles Times He wrote: “Thank goodness I’m not the artistic director of the 2028 Los Angeles Inauguration. Time to raise the bar.”