Lots of sites report about Tom’s unannounced visit in Rome for the promotion of his new movie. I’ll give a summary of the articles.
Hundreds of fans turned out as Tom Cruise jetted in and out of Rome Monday for the afternoon premiere of Mission: Impossible III.
Tom Cruise showed up unannounced in the middle of a news conference in Rome promoting the premiere of Mission Impossible III, surprising his co-stars and the media – just three days after fiancee Katie Holmes gave birth to their daughter Suri. A leather-jacket clad Cruise made a grand entrance at the press event Monday, bounding onstage to wild cheers while costar Philip Seymour Hoffman was talking to reporters. “Sorry to interrupt,” he said. “I just got off an airplane, so I’m way too tired.”
He also took part in a press conference – but the film took a back seat to questions about his baby.
Cruise walked in from the back of the room and began hugging his fellow actors. It’s the first time Cruise has been seen in public since the birth of his daughter, Suri, last week. The premiere of the movie was scheduled later that night.
Cruise said he wasn’t planning on coming to Rome, but Katie told him to do it. She had persuaded him to keep touring Europe to promote his new film, “Mission: Impossible III. “My mission impossible was to be here today,” the 43-year-old actor told reporters. “You know, I have my daughter, newborn, and, you know, I don’t want to leave her, you know, Kate. And I wasn’t going to come and then Kate said, you know, ‘Go go, you got the whole cast, the world premiere here. Go have fun’. So I’m here.”
Cruise said he’d stay for eight hours, attend the premiere and then return home. “I’m going to be here for a few hours and then I’m going to get on a plane and go back to Katie and Suri,” Cruise said. Then Tom told Reuters on the red carpet at the film’s world premiere that Holmes and their infant daughter, Suri, were doing so well that he would continue to Paris and London. “I spoke with Katie and here we discussed it … She said, ‘You know, things change,'” Cruise said. “I realise the fans are going to be there in London and Paris and you know, everything is cool. So we’re going to hit it. We’re going to bang it.”
Once he’s back in the United States following the Wednesday event in Paris, Cruise said he planned to talk to Holmes about marriage plans and decide a date and location for their wedding. “That stuff is actually going to happen in the next couple of weeks. We are going to decide where and when and how,” Cruise said. “Really whatever Kate wants, you know.”
Cast members of “Mission: Impossible III” later delighted thousands of screaming fans by appearing on a podium in the packed square in Rome’s historical center, Piazza del Popolo, where they were interviewed about the movie.
However, the warmest welcome was reserved for Cruise, who caused a wave of near-hysteria when he waved at the public and exclaimed, “Roma! Italy! Italia!” He then climbed down several steps, picked up a white teddy bear someone had tossed in his direction and read the note attached to it.
“This is for Suri, we wish her lots of love and good things. Tom go always like you’re doing now. Kiss to Katie,” Cruise read.
Asked about the birth, he said: “It was everything we wanted it to be and more. It was really very spiritual.”
Cruise said that he didn’t yet know whether Suri looked more like him or his mother, but joked that “she came out” with his haircut. Cruise revealed Suri has a “huge mop of beautiful hair” that looks just like his.
Asked about her name, he said: “In Hebrew it means princess. In Persian, it means red rose. It was the second book we looked at and, all of a sudden, Suri. We looked at each other. Bam!”
Holmes gave birth to the couple’s daughter, Suri, last week and Cruise said they have already gotten a routine down pat. The Hollywood A-lister also suggested that he wasn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. “I changed her first,” he said. “I change diapers all the time. I actually, I have to tell you, I love it. We have a whole system worked out. It’s the ‘B and B’ – she does the breast feeding and I do the burping and changing the diapers. It’s teamwork, it’s fun.”
He was gushing again about Holmes in Rome, saying childbirth had deepened his love for her. “I look at Kate and my admiration and love and respect for her, although I didn’t think it could get any more, it became more,” Cruise said. “It was very beautiful.”
During the round of movie interviews, the megastar told reporters that the new parents’ first call was to Holmes’ mother and father in the Midwest after baby Suri was born one week ago.
He thanked the public for supporting him and his family.
“I also want to thank you for the warm welcome that you’ve given to my daughter Suri and my fiance Katie, and I just love you all,” Cruise said. “And I hope you enjoy this film because that’s why I do it, I make them for you and I really want to entertain you.”
Cruise proved that love at the movie’s premiere Monday night. He spent two and a half hours on the red carpet, signing autographs, posing for photos and answering reporters’ questions. With him on the red carpet were his adopted daughter Isabella, 13, and adopted son Connor, 11.
“Mission: Impossible III” is an adrenaline-packed two hours of death-dodging that sees the action star leaping from Shanghai skyscrapers and breaking into Vatican City. In Mission: Impossible III, superagent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) takes on an icy villain played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Director J.J. Abrams, creator of TV’s Lost and Alias, has said he aimed to balance action with character interplay in the spirit of the television show on which the Mission: Impossible films are based. Ving Rhames, Michelle Monaghan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Laurence Fishburne, Keri Russell and Maggie Q also star in the movie, which is scheduled to open May 5 worldwide.
(Sources: The London Free Press, News Scotsman, NorthWestIndiaNews, wistv, Boston Herald, DailyRecord, NorthKoreaTimes, People)
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