UNITED KINGDOM: Tom Cruise attends the UK premiere of "Mission Impossible III"

Record ID: 221228

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: Tom Cruise attends the UK premiere of "Mission Impossible III"
  • Date: 27th April 2006
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (APRIL 25, 2006) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) TOM CRUISE TALKING TO REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) TOM CRUISE, ASKED ABOUT HIS DECISION TO COME TO LONDON AFTER ALL, SAYING: "I talked with Katie and she said go, everything is so great at the house and I realized that there were people that were disappointed that I wasn't gonna come, the fans an
  • Embargoed: 12th May 2006 13:00
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  • Location: United Kingdom, United Kingdom
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA99S0W83Z9HDTW4CP1T2ODLHWY
  • Story Text: Tom Cruise put off seeing his new-born daughter to attend the British premiere of his new action film, "Mission: Impossible III", on Tuesday (April 25). The Hollywood star announced ahead of the film's world premiere in Rome on Monday (April 24) he would return to the United States to see his bride-to-be Katie Holmes and baby Suri, but had a change of heart later in the evening and decided instead to stay in Europe for the publicity tour.
    Wearing a black suit and shirt and dark glasses, Cruise made one of his customary extended walkabouts in London's Leicester Square. He posed for pictures, chatted to fans and signed autographs for four hours.
    "I talked with Katie and she said 'go'," he told Reuters Television. "I realised that there would be people who'd be disappointed if I wasn't going to come."
    It is Cruise's third outing as the American agent Ethan Hunt in the spy thriller based on the 1960s television series. The film takes him from the Vatican City to Shanghai, China.
    Part of the film was shot in Rome, the city where Cruise and Holmes, known in tabloid shorthand as "TomKat", first made their romance public.
    At his last film premiere in London, Cruise was squirted with a water pistol by a bogus TV reporter working for a comedy show.
    The man used a fake microphone to spray the actor as he chatted to journalists before the UK premiere of "War of the Worlds". A flustered Cruise grabbed the man and repeatedly called him a "jerk".
    On Tuesday, Cruise laughed off the incident, saying he had no fears of being doused again. "I love it here, it didn't change anything," he said.
    "Mission: Impossible III" opens in the UK on May 4.
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