Tom Cruise has been an "incredible mentor" to Ana de Armas.

The 63-year-old actor and Ana, 37, have a "special work relationship" and the actress has "prepped" all summer for their first project together - a supernatural ocean thriller called Deeper.

A source told People: "Tom is crazy hardworking and she's very excited to work with him. She calls it an opportunity of a lifetime."

Tom and Ana have been romantically linked to each other over recent months. However, an insider has insisted that their relationship is "not romantic" and that they are simply friends and work partners.

The source shared: "Tom is an incredible mentor to Ana. She has nothing but amazing things to say about him."

Tom is still one of Hollywood's most bankable stars, and he's never lost his passion for filmmaking.

The actor recently admitted that he's fulfilling a "life-long dream" by working in the movie business.

He told Extra: "It's such a privilege to do what I do.

"It's been a life-long dream of mine to be able to do this and to make movies ... I truly, I love it. That is my, I don't know, it's not what I do, it's who I am.

"It is my honour to entertain."

Tom is willing to put his body on the line in order to make the best movies possible.

The actor - who has suffered various injuries during his career, including a broken ankle while shooting 2018's Mission: Impossible - Fallout - explained: "I fly aerobatic airplanes, I fly jets, I fly helicopters, and this took all of our ability and all of our skill to be able find the camera angles to tell this story."

Tom needed to be in tip-top physical shape to shoot the Mission: Impossible movies, and he felt particularly proud of the action scenes in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.

He said: "Physically, what I had to do to prepare for this thing was quite extreme, and I can tell you this - whatever people see in the trailer or on TV, it is not even a taste of what they have in store for them when they see this film."