Tom Cruise covers W Magazine June 2012, for which there’s now an extensive photo shoot although the interview snippets are meager. The 49-year-old tells the magazine of his role in Rock Of Ages: ‘I knew we had to push the sexuality because of the nature of the character and the songs.’ Explaining why he chose a musical, he continues: ’Kate loves musicals. She sings and dances, and we kind of went through the history of musicals together. And Suri loved Hairspray. With kids, you watch everything over and over; I watched Hairspray 15 times with Suri.’ He says his love of music started years ago: ‘You know what? I did the scene from Risky Business around the house. I would sing… and I’d turn the music up. I learned how to dance watching Soul Train. I noticed that if a guy could dance, he’d get a lot of attention and girls would want to dance with him. I worked very hard at imitating those moves.’ And that’s about it, because W spent more time waxing and man-scaping than it did interviewing the actor. But Playboy picked up the slack with its own interview. Not counting the facials or other non-surgical procedures from before John Travolta scared off the help, Cruise tells Playboy he never has and ‘never would’ tweak the face Xenu gave him. The W photo shoot and excerpts from the Playboy interview are below.

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