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‘Ethan’ meets ‘Ethan’ at the red carpet premiere of ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’
MANILA, Philippines – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning held its red carpet premiere at Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, May 8, and Alden Richards got to shake hands with star Tom Cruise!
The newly crowned Philippine Box Office King Alden Richards was one of the VIP guests. In an Instagram post, Richards shared a clip of him shaking hands with Hollywood action star Tom Cruise. “Ethan meets Ethan… I have no words!” the caption wrote.
Richards is well known for playing character Ethan in the box office hits Hello, Love, Goodbye and Hello, Love, Again. Meanwhile, Cruise plays the iconic role of Impossible Missions Force (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible films.
At the premiere, Richards was also able to meet cast members Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, and Greg Tarzan Davis.
The first installment of the action spy film series premiered in 1996. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, its latest installment following the previous Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, has been speculated to mark the franchise’s final mission — or the current IMF team’s final mission, with Cruise (as Ethan Hunt) as the lead.
This is seemingly confirmed by what Cruise shared at the Tokyo premiere on Monday, May 5. “This film is a culmination of the last 30 years of making this franchise,” Cruise said, as quoted in a press release. “And I’m telling you, everything has led to this.”
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning opens in Philippine cinemas on Saturday, May 17.
Alden Richards is a Filipino actor, TV personality, and singer, best known for his roles in the films Hello, Love, Goodbye franchise, where he starred alongside Kathryn Bernardo. – with reports by Bea Gatmaytan/Rappler.com
Bea Gatmaytan is a Rappler intern studying Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines Diliman.
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