Tom Cruise joins "Gangnam Style" craze, follows PSY on Twitter

Hollywood actor Tom Cruise as rocker Stacee Jaxx in the musical movie "Rock of Ages," which was released locally on August 2, 2012. [Warner Bros. Entertainment]

K-pop artist PSY, donned in a black jacket and white pants, does his imfamous horse-riding dance for his music video for "Gangnam Style," dropped on July 15, 2012. [YG Entertainment]

Hollywood A-lister Tom Cruise has joined the ranks of other big stars in the ongoing craze for PSY's global hit "Gangnam Style."

On Wednesday, Cruise sent a request to become a Twitter follower to PSY, and after the "Gangnam Style" star accepted his request, the two began a budding friendship on the social network service.

PSY sent Cruise a tweet saying, "would make a good future co-star Gangnam Style?” to which the "Mission Impossible" actor replied, "Think" with a YouTube link and still shot of the music video "Gangnam Style."

Once news broke out about Cruise and PSY's Twitter friendship, the public commented, "I wonder what their collaboration will be like?," "Maybe the two can actually do the horse dance on the streets of Gangnam" and "I wonder if other K-pop stars will try to follow in PSY's footsteps."

Tom Cruise is a famed American film actor and producer. Since kicking off his acting career with the movie "Endless Love" in 1981, he starred in many successful films such as "Rain Man" (1988), "A Few Good Men" (1992), "Vanilla Sky" (2001) and "War of the Worlds" (2005).

He last starred in the musical film "Rock of Ages" (2012) and is awaiting the release of his upcoming action film "Jack Reacher."

Meanwhile, PSY has been gaining international popularity with his comic music video for “Gangnam Style,” attracting a whopping number of over 100 million views posted on his official YouTube channel since its release on July 15.

World-renowned artists such as Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Robbie Williams and T-pain also have enjoyed his hilarious clip and suggested their followers to watch it.

Bringing more good news to his global fans, PSY recently signed a contract with Justin Bieber's agency Schoolboy Records to kick start his future activities overseas.

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