UK/GERMANY: BRITISH MOVIE PREMIERE OF MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 2 ATTENDED BY FILM STARS TOM CRUISE AND RUSSELL CROWE

Record ID: 389669

  • Title: UK/GERMANY: BRITISH MOVIE PREMIERE OF MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 2 ATTENDED BY FILM STARS TOM CRUISE AND RUSSELL CROWE
  • Date: 3rd July 2000
  • Summary: LONDON, UK (JULY 4, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) TOM ABOUT DOING HIS OWN STUNT SCENES "Because I thought it would be exciting and it's interesting. It's a challenge and for the mountain climbing I just tried to work out, do a couple of hundred pull-ups a day and just made sure that I was lose and warmed up all the time. Especially producing the p
  • Embargoed: 18th July 2000 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON, UK/COLOGNE, GERMANY/FILE
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  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Communications
  • Reuters ID: LVAU22PSY91K5JQN11H8PXH26CJ
  • Story Text: Mission Impossible 2 star Tom Cruise found himself head-to-head in the 'arena' of London's Leicester Square when he came face to face with Gladiator star Russell Crowe. Tom was continuing his European cruise to promote his new blockbuster - Crowe came along to give the movie his thumbs up.
    Fans in London's Leicester Square went hysterical when Tom Cruise arrived to attend the British premiere of blockbuster action thriller Mission Impossible 2.
    Not only did he spend half an hour signing autographs and taking photos, he also had Gladiator Russell Crowe right by his side.
    Crowe didn't speak to anybody not to take attention away from Cruise, but his presence was enough to get the fans going.
    Other stars attending the premiere included Irish 'Boyzone' popstar Ronan Keating and US actress Angelina Jolie, who is in town for her new movie.
    They're both great fans of Tom. "He's a great actor, I'm a big fan, he's one of the best," Keating says.
    "As a person, equally as an actor, I think he's a really nice man. From what I know about him and what I've sen a little with his kids and his wife. He's a great person," Jolie added.
    The story is pretty familiar by now, but for those who don't know it yet, here is what it's all about: it's a special effects masterpiece that plunges Tom Cruise alias special agent Ethan Hunt into an international crisis of terrifying magnitude! With computer genius Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) by his side and beautiful Thandie Newton on his mind, Hunt races across Australia and Spain on his mission impossible...
    6-month pregnant Thandie Newton is an old friend of Nicole Kidman, but the actress said Nicole didn't give her any tips for working with Tom.
    "No, none of that. We have known each other for a while but this was obviously much more involved and I feel I know him so well. You can't spend 8 months with someone without knowing them pretty well."
    Apparently, Tom's quite an action man in real life. "Oh God yes, exhausting. Spending a weekend is like work. But it's always so much fun hanging out with Tom no matter where you are. He's got incredible energy and you feel very alive when you're around someone like him."
    Tom and his team have been just about everywhere to attend M: i-2 premieres. The German premiere fell on the actor's 38th birthday with a special touch as the audience sand Happy Birthday.
    "It was great. It was amazing, that was amazing you know people singing me happy birthday."
    Cruise also remembered signing his name on a TV camera..."Oh yeah, that was your camera? I've never done that before. He said 'sign the camera'. That was fun."
    The masterminds behind box office hit Chicken Run came up with the idea to produce spoof trailers for Mission Impossible and Gladiator, an idea Tom really likes.
    "I think those guys are great, I think the film is terrific really charming, I can't wait for my kids to see it.
    Those guys are really talented."
    As for his stunts, he says he liked doing them because it was very exciting.
    "Because I thought it would be exciting and it's interesting. It's a challenge and for the mountainclimbing I just tried to work out, do a couple of hundred pull-ups a day and just made sure that I was lose and warmed up all the time.
    Especially producing the picture and acting in it , working 16 hours a day, sometimes 7 days a week. I'm surprised I really didn't get injured. I never pulled a muscle, I only dislocated my fingers." REP: WASN'T NICOLE WORRIED? "We didn't go through in detail about the things that I was doing but she knows I'm not going to do anything scary."
    Mission Impossible 2 opens in the UK this week.
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