Tom Cruise has revealed that he was inspired to take on movie Rock of Ages by his wife and daughter.
The actor takes on the role of rocker Stacee Jaxx in Adam Shankman's new musical and he took on the role because of his family's love of the genre.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror the actor said: "Kate sings and dances and we kind of went through the history of musicals together. And Suri loves Hairspray. I have watched it 15 times with her."
However Cruise said that the movie and the role was a real learning curve for his as he had never played guitar before and he was unsure about his vocal ability.
"I needed to find out if I could really sing. Then I had to learn how to play guitar. I'm very good at air guitar and air drums, but I had never played an actual guitar.
"I needed to find my own 'Stacee Jaxx'. It was like learning a new sport."
Cruise stars alongside Catherine Zeta Jones, Russell Brand, Paul Giamatti and Alec Baldwin in the new movie which was released last week.
We will be seeing Cruise back on the big screen in Jack Reacher and Oblivion and he has a whole host of other projects in the pipeline including one about Van Helsing.
Rock of Ages is out now.