Ana de Armas spotted with a guy who’s a lot taller than Tom Cruise

In paparazzi photos snapped Tuesday Ana de Armas looked like she was moving on from her broadcasted romance with Tom Cruise by doing chosen home-decor shopping with a dark and handsome man who s been identified as a hunky Brazilian-born venture capitalist One thing that s promptly apparent about the man identified by TMZ as Marcelo Valente is that he s also tall much taller than the -foot- -inch de Armas and taller than Cruise who is feet inches It s not known how tall Valente is but he looks as though he could be similar in size to the -foot- Ben Affleck whom de Armas dated from around to De Armas and Valente didn t get too handsy on the shopping trip but they seemed pretty well acquainted TMZ and the Daily Mail noted that the Cuban-born actor brought along her dog with whom Valente seemed friendly She and the UCLA-educated Valente a partner at at venture capital company Babel Ventures also were recorded through the window of an upscale home-design shop looking at color samples together These photos of de Armas and Valente were published a couple weeks after Us Weekly broke the news that the -year-old Ballerina star had put the brakes on her burgeoning relationship with -year-old Cruise after she reportedly got a little uncomfortable with how fast it was going That news didn t come as that much of a surprise to several Selected either questioned whether the de Armas Cruise romance had been real in the first place and not a PR stunt while others are familiar with what s long been known about about the Top Gun star s personal and professional need for speed intensity Scarce were surprised to read that Cruise would want to move fast for a commitment from de Armas given how hurriedly he moved to get his past two wives Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes to marry him Now media outlets are trying to piece together what they can about the background of the man who may have lured de Armas away from the global superstar The Daily Mail for example released that Valente boasts on his company bio of working with high-profile musicians and actors and also ascertained a Los Angeles based company that bridg es the worlds of entertainment and tool As for the evident height difference between Valente and Cruise there s no indication that Cruise s height was a factor in his breakup from de Armas Still the Mission Impossible star s height has long been an issue for him at least professionally according to reports FILE PHOTO Actors Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman arrive at the nd Annual Academy Awards March in Los Angeles CA Cruise and Kidman one of the Hollywood's best-known couples reported February that they are separating after more than a decade of marriage Photo by Dan Callister Newsmakers There has been talk about how he manages to measure up to his taller female co-stars on camera There s also been speculation that he perhaps uses lifts in his shoes or other tricks to look as tall as practicable when he appears alongside those women at society events Early in his career in the s Cruise reportedly listed himself as -foot- or -foot- When he appeared in promotional photos with Kelly McGillis his love interest in the original Top Gun movie the -foot- -inch actress visibly bent her knees and rested her head on the actor s shoulder so as to not tower over him Kidman Cruise s famously tall second wife who is feet inches admitted that she she had to ditch heels when they first worked together in the film Days of Thunder When they were still married Kidman insisted Cruise didn t mind that she was taller than him However she changed her tune about his height issues after he reportedly blindsided her by asking for a divorce in after years of marriage On The David Letterman Show Kidman famously joked I can wear heels now Holmes at feet inches similarly celebrated that same post-divorce perk after she filed for divorce from Cruise in According to Marie Claire she splashed out thousands of dollars to buy pairs of Christian Louboutin heels after they split Following her broadcasted split from Cruise De Armas also went shopping as documented in the photos published this week It appears that she likes being able to go out with a man who is not invariably surrounded by handlers and the circus that Cruise tends to attract personally and professionally With Valente she was at least able to enjoy a normal-people outing to a store to look at color samples even if the paparazzi manifested up