Reappointed to the post of Minister of Culture in the new French government, Rachida Dati will still be able to take advantage of her functions to meet film stars. At the last Cannes Film Festival, the minister of Moroccan origin made a strong impression on American actor Richard Gere, when they were both guests on the set of the public channel’s television news France 2.
On the sidelines of the same Cannes festival, Rachida Dati had also presented a medal of the Order of Arts and Letters to Kevin Costner, immortalizing the moment with a complicit photo where both posed hand in hand.
But it is with another famous American actor that Rachida Dati confided, in an interview granted to Galamaintain links. In the latest issue of the French celebrity magazine, the mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris reveals that she is more or less close to Tom Cruise.
Between the 62-year-old star and Rachida Dati, the story began in 2022, when the latter wished to obtain authorization for the screening at the Invalides of the film “Top Gun: Maverick”, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Directorate General of External Security (DGSE), the French intelligence service.
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«At the time, I got his sister’s number and he called me back. He accepted, then he also allowed students from classes in my district to come and watch the filming of “Mission Impossible” in Paris. A rare fact», she explains to Gala.
But the story didn’t end there. The magazine thus reveals that last July, it was Tom Cruise himself who wanted Rachida Dati to give him the badge of Knight of Arts and Letters, on July 27, 2024. And since then? “We had seen each other two or three times before and we sometimes send each other messages», continues the minister for whom, definitely, nothing is impossible.
