Tom Cruise hates email and urges friends and family to pick up the phone when they want to communicate with him.

The Top Gun star was persuaded to sign up for email on the set of the first Mission: Impossible movie, but he quickly realised technical correspondence wasn't for him.

The dyslexic star explains, "The next day, there are 50 messages. I'm the kind of person, if someone phones, I have to return the call because it's rude not to, but I'm a father, I'm producing a movie, I'm working. I don't have time to type out 50 emails."

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