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Tom Cruise wows fans

Auckland – From on-screen Samurai fighter to real-life good Samaritan, Hollywood star Tom Cruise has impressed locals in New Zealand’s remote North Island province of Taranaki where he has been filming since January.

While working on the big budget Warner Bros epic The Last Samurai, due to wrap up mid-April, Cruise has become celebrated for his down-to-earth habits, like eating fish and chips in newspaper from the local take-away and catching the surf at nearby beaches.

And all without a paparazzi lens or mob of breathless fans in sight.

Then there have been his good deeds.

Far from mainstream cinematic gossip of sex scandals, diet fads, drug abuse and more among the stars, Cruise has become famous in Taranaki for stopping to help a local family change a flat tyre on a country road.

He also helped a young girl catch her runaway horse and donated seven thousand New Zealand dollars to a tiny, rural school near his film set for a sun shelter under which pupils can play.

While he has rarely been seen in public – unlike his gregarious Scottish co-star Billy Connelly – Cruise has earned a reputation for being a genuinely nice

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