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She recounts the moment he arrived on set on Thanksgiving last year. “Whenever one of his movies would be in theatres, my Dad would take all of us and go see it.” While it’s no shock to hear he was psyched to see his daughter work with his hero, Cruise was apparently just as “stoked” to meet her father. “I probably watched Top Gun millions of times growing up,” Yarosh laughs. Given their shared interests, it’s no surprise to learn Yarosh’s father is a huge Cruise fan – right back to when he was making aerial classic Top Gun, racetrack drama Days of Thunder and The Color of Money with Newman.

Already the proud owner of a motorcycle permit, she also loves boxing and archery (taught by Khatuna Lorig, who coached Jennifer Lawrence for The Hunger Games). “I’m getting my pilot’s licence right now,” she enthuses, explaining she flies the “super-safe” Cirrus SR20 monoplane. But away from designer finery, rather like Cruise, she’s all-action. hotel, sporting a slinky striped dress and silver heels. Yarosh, who made her breakthrough in the US version of TV show Shameless, is blonde, fresh-faced and, when we meet in an L.A. Cruise is back as Reacher, the taciturn ex-military police major turned maverick dispenser of justice the 18 year-old Yarosh plays Sam, a foster care teenager who may or may not be Reacher’s daughter.

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“We have all the same interests in real life.” The teenager is talking Tom Cruise, her co-star in the mega-star’s latest action sequel, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back – the second film to come from the Lee Child-penned series of books. “We clicked in a way that’s so unusual,” says Danika Yarosh.