Cuba Gooding Jr. has introduced his comeback tour to Cannes.

The Oscar winner reunited together with his “Jerry Maguire” co-star Tom Cruise at the latter’s “Mission Not possible” premiere at the Cannes Movie Competition on Wednesday. A supply described their purple carpet meet-up as “great,” and the duo appeared chummy whereas posing for photographs collectively.

Gooding has been climbing his approach again into Hollywood after scandals derailed his profession and A-list standing in current years.

In 2020, Gooding settled a lawsuit with a girl who accused him of rape, and in 2022 he was accused of forcibly touching a girl in a Instances Sq., and later pleaded responsible to the lesser cost of harassment in that case.

We hear he’s in Cannes making an attempt to promote two new movies, “Quantum Supremacy” and “Line of Fireplace.” He’ll even be choosing up awards of his personal, one at the tenth Annual Cannes Style & Movie Awards Dinner and one other at the iSuccess gala.

The “Boyz n the Hood” actor introduced longtime girlfriend Claudine DeNiro as his date to the competition. The duo have been retaining a comparatively low profile as of late, with him buying and selling in boozy karaoke events for Jesus. He premiered his Christianity-based flick, “The Firing Squad,” co-starring Kevin Sorbo and James Barrington, in which he sings “Wonderful Grace.”

Sources advised Web page Six at the time that Gooding was making an attempt to place his sexual assault accusations behind him to give attention to work and his film star comeback. In an interview with “Extra,” he opened up about how his Christian religion bought him by means of the darkish occasions.

“It’s a kind of issues the place, I do know that I’m right here for a purpose, and I do know that and so long as I do what I do, and I’m good at what I do, and I’m enthusiastic about what I do, God’s will might be finished,” he mentioned.