Actor Tom Cruise showed support for his CAA agent Maha Dakhil after she was made to step away from her leadership roles at talent agency CAA because she reposted an Instagram story in support of Palestine. Tom Cruise made it known to CAA that he was backing her and “took the rare step of going in person [to the CAA office] to show support” for her.
Variety article reported, across town, the agency’s fiercest rival, CAA, was dealing with a crisis. Maha Dakhil, one of its top agents, had ignited a firestorm with her Instagram posts, including one that said, “What’s more heartbreaking than witnessing genocide? Witnessing the denial that genocide is happening.”