When she was born in 2006, her father, Tom Cruise, was already the most American of blockbuster actors, and a Scientology sub-guru.
His mother, Katie Holmes, is still surfing on the success of the
Dawson
series but is above all the new wife of Tom Cruise.
In short, from the first weeks of his life on Earth, Suri Cruise is famous.
Overexposed by her parents, ultra-scrutinized by the paparazzi, she quickly becomes the adorable brown doll who makes the joy of the tabloids, too happy that they are finally given access to a child star.
Except that.
To discover
To listen > our Scandals podcast “
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West: they got married and had a lot of
followers
”
After a few tears immortalized in a toy store, a nervous breakdown difficult to contain by her father on Fifth Avenue, or even a photo showing her with heels in the streets of New York at the age of 3, the image of Suri Cruise will change.
To the point of becoming, in a few years and multiple gossips, the little plague that Americans love to hate.
Read alsoTom Cruise: the mysteries of a life between Hollywood and Scientology
So many questions raised by our podcast: how did the tabloids manage to create this mini-monster who came to terrorize his parents, and even the rest of planet Earth?
What impact did this media frenzy have on Suri Cruise's life?
And besides, what is she becoming today, at 16?
In this episode of
Scandals
, Sarah Dahan and Marion Galy-Ramounot dive back into the overexposed childhood of young Suri Cruise.
At their microphone follow one another:
Pascal Lardellier, professor of communication sciences at the University of Burgundy, author of
Nos modes, nos mythes, nos rites
Béatrice Copper-Royer, child psychiatrist
Sarah Jean-Jacques, researcher specializing in gender and sexuality issues
Roger Hitts, journalist for the
Star tabloid
Emily Kirkpatrick, journalist for
Vanity Fair US
Scandales
is a podcast by
Madame Figaro,
presented by Marion Galy-Ramounot and produced by Lucile Rousseau-Garcia.
Sarah Dahan wrote and shot this mini-series, under the editorial direction of Océane Ciuni.
François Clos produced and mixed it, on music composed by Jean Thévenin and François Clos.
Scandales
is a podcast produced by Louie Creative, Louie Media's audio content creation agency.
This episode entitled “Suri Cruise: a child demonized by the media” can be listened to for free on all platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Spotify from July 25, 2022.