It turns out religion may be the elephant in the lavishly decorated room of Hollywood's newest romance between Ana de Armas and Tom Cruise.

De Armas has been married once to the Spanish actor Marc Clotet from 2011 to 2013. The Cuban actress was only 22 when she tied the knot and it came well before her Hollywood breakthrough in the late 2010s. She dated Ben Affleck after meeting the actor while filming Deep Water in 2019. They are said to have split up in 2021.

There’s soft-launching a relationship and then there is Tom Cruise and Ana de Armas, whose rumored relationship debuted in a slow trickle of grainy paparazzi photos over the course of six months before there was anything resembling confirmation.