Tom Cruise breaks silence on the 'soap opera effect' and we couldn't be happier

Hollywood chimed in Tuesday on something it actually knows a thing or two about: film and video technology. And you should be glad it did.”

In a short video attached the home video release of Mission Impossible: Fallout, ageless star Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie explain, plainly and directly (from the set of Top Gun: Maverick no less) about the modern scourge of TV technology: video interpolation, better known as the “soap opera effect.”