Tom Cruise has won viral praise for stopping to comfort a woman he thought was in distress – only to find her ‘doomscrolling’.The clip shows the actor, 64, approaching the woman who was on her work break and crouched in the corner on her phone, completely unaware about what was about to happen.The employee shared security camera footage of the brief interaction on her TikTok account, under the username Klementina.A smartly dressed Tom gently taps her on the shoulder to see if she was okay and she suddenly looks up and does a double take. After he realises she is in fact fine, she gets up to shake his hand and looks completely shocked. They then wave at each other as he walks off.She explained in her caption that she was in ‘complete shock’ during the initial encounter and could only stutter out his name after realising that it was him. When he walked past her again later, she had processed what happened and asked him for a photo. Tom Cruise has won viral praise for stopping to comfort a woman he thought was in distress – only to find her ‘doomscrolling’ The clip shows the actor, 64, approaching the woman who was on her work break and crouched in the corner on her phone, completely unaware about what was about to happenThe woman did not explain where she was working but is dressed in a white shirt and apron in what looks like a backstage area and hallway.The encounter happened during Tom’s promotional tour for his new film Digger.He unexpectedly debuted bright red hair at the star-studded premiere for the film in London last Tuesday night. The Mission: Impossible icon was showing off the bold new look as he arrived at Leicester Square, having ditched his usual brunette style.It came after he had to wear a bodysuit and prosthetics to age him for his role as an oil tycoon and billionaire who accidentally sets off a global ecological crisis in the Alejandro González Iñárritu-directed film.He cut a dapper figure for the premiere in a tuxedo and dark shades as well as a pair of shiny heeled boots to boost his height as he posed for the cameras.Also at the premiere were a series of Tom’s co-stars including Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, Riz Ahmed and Sophie Wilde, as well as the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tom underwent a huge transformation for his character Digger Rockwell. The trailer showed Tom with thinning white hair, a prosthetic pot belly and a thick Southern accent. Digger is tasked by the US President (played by John Goodman) to save the planet in the film. A smartly dressed Tom gently taps her on the shoulder to see if she okay and she suddenly looks up and does a double take. She then greets him and shakes his hand Reacting to the trailer, fans have tipped Tom for an Oscar as they wrote: ‘Finally, a movie where Tom Cruise’s most dangerous stunt is raw unfiltered acting.”Seeing an old Tom Cruise is wild.”I love how every once in a while Cruise does a movie that’s just ‘oh yeah, I can actually act when I feel like it’.”Tom Cruise looks so unrecognizable here it’s amazing.’ ‘The Tom Cruise Oscar campaign is going to be LEGENDARY.’ Tom previously filmed the movie in the UK during the six-month production. The tagline on the movie poster refers to Digger as ‘a comedy of catastrophic proportions’. The encounter happened during Tom’s promotional tour for his new film Digger. He unexpectedly debuted bright red hair at the star-studded premiere for the film last Tuesday It came after he had to wear a bodysuit and prosthetics to age him for his role as an oil tycoon and billionaire who accidentally sets off a global ecological crisis in the filmDigger is directed by four-time Oscar winner Alejandro, who is known for his work on Birdman and The Revenant.He is also co-producing the movie with Tom. Alejandro previously said of Tom’s transformation: ‘The transformation he went through was astonishing. ‘Alejandro, it took me 40 years to become this character,’ he told me once. ‘And I think we both know what it means to carry an entire career into a single moment like this. We both knew that throughout our journeys, we had never done anything even close to this.’Digger is a diversion for Tom, who has become known for his incredible stunts in high-action films. These include scaling Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, dangling from an Airbus 400 during take off for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and driving a motorcycle off a cliff for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.