Highlights
- Both Taylor Swift and Tom Cruise require their staff to sign NDAs to protect their privacy and ensure the safety of their copyrights and secrets.
- Tom Cruise has stricter rules for his employees, including military precision security rules and a no-tolerance policy for those who disagree with his vision.
- Fans disagree with rumors that Taylor Swift forces her celebrity friends to attend her concerts and charges fans to meet her backstage, believing she does it out of kindness and that her success speaks for itself.
Given her billionaire status, it only makes sense that Taylor Swift has certain rules her staff has to follow behind the scenes. The same holds true for Tom Cruise, though evidence suggests that Tom's rules might be a little stricter in nature. In the following, we're going to take a closer look at a specific rule both Tom Cruise and Taylor Swift share with their employees.
On the flip side, we'll also look at other rules from both Swift and Cruise, some that are less popular than others. Cruise in particular has some strict rules, and has even fired employees for not following them.
Let's delve into Taylor and Tom's rules for their staff.
Both Taylor Swift And Tom Cruise Make Their Staff Members Sign NDAs
As we're going to reveal, Tom Cruise's rules for his employees seem to be a lot more strict compared to Taylor Swift. Nonetheless, both have certain rules in common. Your Tango listed some of Taylor's strict rules employees have to follow.
Among the list included employees have to sign an NDA, so that they don't leak any info about what goes on behind the scenes. In 2014, Swift had journalists sign an NDA after listening to 1989 prior to its release.
Your Tango also mentions that celebs making employees sign NDAs really isn't anything new.
The publication writes, "Rumor has it that all of Swift’s intimate partners must sign a non-disclosure agreement. It’s no surprise that she holds her employees to the same standards. It’s common practice for companies to require NDAs from all of their employees."
"Swift is no different and is smart for making them sign on the dotted line. With so many people in close proximity to the star, it’s necessary that she make sure her copyrights and secrets are safe."
As for Tom Cruise, he does the same. In fact, Cruise even made the nannies sign an NDA. Celebrity nanny Suzanne Hansen revealed, “Tom would make his nannies sign confidentiality agreements that were so strict, they couldn’t even say for whom they were working. So basically, if (Cruise) went on camera and said how he didn’t have any help raising his children, they couldn’t say anything.”
Tom has also been very private about his personal life, so this should not come as a surprise.
Fans Don't Believe A Certain Taylor Swift Rule That Alleges She Forces Her Celeb Friends To Attend Her Shows
Fans don't agree with all of Taylor Swift's rules. In fact, fans don't believe that Taylor Swift enforces a certain rule to begin with. It was said that Swift forces her celebrity friends to attend concerts as a way to get more exposure. Given Swift's insane popularity and success, this one is very hard to believe. It is likely that friends of Taylor's likely take part to experience her shows and, if anything, they themselves might want the exposure of appearing at a Taylor Swift show.
Fans completely disagreed with the rule. One fan wrote, "Omg the whole "she forces her celebrity friends to attend at least one of her concerts." I'm sorry but Taylor is not like that."
Fans also completely disagreed with another alleged rule that Swift charges fans to meet her backstage. Obviously, that one is completely false, especially given all the fans Swift has met throughout her career, along with the surprise appearances. Swift clearly does this out of the goodness of her heart.
Tom Cruise's Rules Seem To Be Much More Severe For His Staff To Follow
Tom Cruise's rules seem to be a lot more severe. The star apparently has strict rules for his homes fans don't even believe, which includes military precision security rules.
In addition, he won't hesitate to fire someone on his team if they don't agree with his vision. Matt Damon retold the story of a coordinator questioning a certain stunt Cruise had planned. Disagreeing with Tom wasn't the best idea.
Damon revealed, "I remember I had dinner with him once, and it was after he did the [Mission: Impossible movie] where he ran around the building. And I go, ‘Can you tell me how that happened?’ And he’s a really intense guy, and he was like, ‘I’ll tell you how it happened!’ I go, ‘Alright.’ And I’m in."
"He goes, ‘I’ve been thinking about this shot for 15 years!’ And I’m like, ‘Wow, really?’ He goes, ‘So I go to the safety guy, and I lay it all out.’ Safety guy goes, ‘We can’t do that. It’s too dangerous, you can’t do that. So I get a new safety guy.’ That’s the beginning of his story."
Never a dull moment when it comes to Cruise working his craft.
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