I read through 90 posts looking for one that says what is really going on here and there was yours. Bingo! It was indeed a contract and it expired this year. Cruise is VERY gay. He was one of the very very gay David Geffen's "house boys" back in the day before he made it big. Oddly enough, so was Brad Pitt who was eye candy around the house for Geffen & Co. before he became famous. Pitt, FYI, is not gay. Like a lot of others Pitt knew that one of the roads to fame is Geffen. Geffen is the guy behind the curtain who splices these kinds of deals together. He was likely the one that got Cher to "reveal" that she had a "secret romance" with Cruise. Yea, sure she did. Wink wink...
Miss Holmes has been very well paid and will continue to be well paid. Her job is not over. The sham marriage may be but now we will get all the phony stories about who gets what, the bogus custody battle, etc. It is drama time. Lights! Camera! Action! The magazines and talk shows will do their job. Story after story of what led up to the "divorce" will be told. Some of it will tell the tale of how "not-gay" Cruise is. It is all scripted and entirely fake. It's Hollywood!
Holmes will never spill the beans. She is being very well paid and she likely wants to continue acting. And she will be acting. Maybe in movies for Deamworks? You betcha.
So good post! You hit the nail on the head!
Oh, one last thing. Ms. Holmes was one of two actresses in the running for the 5 year deal with Cruise. She beat out Jessica Biel.
Yeah, it’s not really that hard to figure out, since Cruise has done this thing before. Other gay actors have been doing this kind of thing, going back decades. It used to be that the studios would arrange these things themselves, but you may be right that it is prominent gays like Geffen (and maybe Miscavige?) that take up the task nowadays.
The gay actor gets to keep the fans lusting after him, because his hetero hunk myth remains intact, the young starlet gets a boost in the gossip rags by being associated with him, and probably a good cash payout also.