An animal protection group SHARK (Showing Animals Respect And Kindness) wants Tom Cruise to reject the part of a rodeo champion in the planned movie Paper Wings, Breaking Celebrity News has learned.

Cruise – who is currently filming Mission Impossible 4 in Prague – has been linked to Sony Pictures rodeo-driven love story alongside Reese Witherspoon. Gabriele Muccino is also attached as director.

But SHARK has called upon the superstar not to take the part in the movie. The group has documented video evidence of animal abuse at hundreds of rodeos across the country from New Jersey to California.

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Cruise was recently seen behind the chutes at a rodeo in California, and SHARK does not want the superstar to glorify rodeos.

And the organization’s President Steve Hi