Actor Tom Cruise has been married in the past, and one of his forgotten movies weirdly predicted one of his future wives four years before they even met. Cruise was previously married to fellow actress Katie Holmes, famous for appearing in the TV series Dawson’s Creed as well as Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins. While Cruise and Holmes were one of the more famous celebrity couples in Hollywood, their relationship was strangely predicted a long time before they started dating.
Vanilla Sky is a less well-known Tom Cruise movie from 2001, with it being directed by frequent Tom Cruise collaborator Cameron Crowe and receiving mixed critical reception. The film follows Tom Cruise’s David Aames, a playboy whose life crumbles after a life-threatening car accident. The film is an American remake of the beloved 1997 Spanish film, Open Your Eyes, with it containing many of the same twists and turns. However, the wildest twist wouldn’t be revealed until Cruise and Katie Holmes got married five years later.
Katie Holmes’ Vanilla Sky “Cameo” Explained
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise didn’t start dating until 2005, but Holmes’ cameo in Vanilla Sky was able to predict that relationship years earlier. In Vanilla Sky, Tom Cruise’s David Aames begins to realize that he is in a simulation, with him having been placed in cryogenic sleep after his car accident. As Vanilla Sky’s simulated reality beg ins to break down, reality begins to crumble, with the film illustrating this through several subliminal messages.
One scene in Vanilla Sky finds David running in fear through Times Square in New York City, with it being completely abandoned. Several brief images flash on screen during this sequence, with one of them being a magazine cover. Katie Holmes is featured modeling on this magazine cover, with the title even referring to her as “Katie.” The meaning of this shot in the story of Vanilla Sky is still a mystery, making its connection to Cruise’s future wife even stranger.
Vanilla Sky’s Plot Makes The Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes Connection Weirder
While having Katie Holmes appear this many years before her marriage is a strange enough coincidence, the plot of Vanilla Sky makes this connection even weirder. Vanilla Sky is all about David Aames’ love life, with him dealing with a violent ex named Julie and a new love interest named Sofia. Throughout the film, David has visions of Sofia, although it turns out that he only met her once, with the rest of his scenes with Sofia actually taking place with Julie.
This storyline of a love interest that Cruise barely knows makes Katie Holmes’ cameo a funny one, as he later ended up marrying the actress that he didn’t know at the time of Vanilla Sky. Although it was impossible to know that the two would end up getting married years later, it does make Katie Holmes appearance in Vanilla Sky an interesting piece of Tom Cruise trivia.