our first guest is an Academy Award nominated actor starring in a new
film entitled mission impossible 3. it opens on Friday here's Tom Cruise
how are you congratulations thank you baby girl yeah she's a beauty
like a month ago was that what it was a couple weeks a couple of weeks ago how's
Harry doing Harry's two and a half he's very good thank you very much
it's just crazy isn't it it's crazy tell us about the uh by the way you're not married
thank you did we have to bring it up I'm sure that's on a list
things to do yeah I can't wait to get married yeah take care of that
now what was it uh uh what was it like I mean there's no more intimate a process in in the
the human mechanism than the childbirth no and and mine well not mine but the you know
I know we do say that though hours yeah you know we absolutely it's not we is it well it it really
is we in some degree but in some ways it's you're right then yeah and you'll find what I found was
my position on the roster dropped dramatically as soon as we got home because it used to be you know
but numero who knew that's right uh but what was that what was that day like what was the the big
day of the the arrival yeah you know what it's like it's it's uh exciting and kind of surreal
because all of a sudden it's happening and uh suddenly there's going to be this other person and
it's it's I found myself wanting to relish every minute of it right and not forget it was it a was
it a a long uh process no no no uh it happened very quickly that's good yeah now [Applause]
you you have you have uh other children
yes you have two two other kids yeah so for you this probably wasn't the shock that it was for me
for me it was unbelievably shocking because when you hear the little heartbeat monitor
yeah you realize holy crap he's going home with me
you know what I mean what I mean you go in there's just the two of you and you
realize whoa did you have any of that probably I actually didn't I actually didn't have that
I you know uh I've just been changing diapers for so long you know I mean my kids were out
of diapers after a little while but right I just went like what am I saying like you know
you talked them back into diapers okay guys we're getting warmed up here okay now get the diapers
out but all of that's fun isn't it you know what I love it we have a thing it's B and B you know
she does the breast you know feeding and I do the burping and changing the diapers that's that's we
got a kind of a whole system worked out it's a lot of fun yeah it's not a bed and breakfast yes yeah
well you do some business there though wouldn't you yeah
but now
qri what is what does it mean well Siri means in Hebrew it's princess and it's an ancient
it's actually before Sarah and uh in Persian it means Rose or red rose and was there uh a process
to finding the name is this a name that you had in the back of your mind for a while did you go
through a whole thing on names for Harry no I knew what the name was going to be is that right yeah
because what if it was a girl well if he was going to be a father it would have been a a different
name oh is that right yeah you knew he's a boy so yeah we do didn't know it was great yeah yeah he's
a girl and we just we sat down in front of ours uh couple gave us a book and we just sat down
the floor one night kind of leafed through it and after about two minutes I read Siri I shared Kate
she said Siri and I know it just sounded right we knew he was a girl and we recently found out that
it was a girl and we picked we picked her name yeah it was a big ordeal yeah well that's good
because I know people yeah who the baby is is down the hall they still don't have a name that really
yes or what about the the discussions and the kind of you know I didn't have we didn't have that
Kate and I kind of looked immediately yeah yeah immediately yeah it was easy uh and and so now you
have this uh how big is the little girl now she's uh she actually just had a doctor's appointment
and she's now uh seven pounds 10 ounces so that's you know that's important these ounces do you know
what I mean at the stage where you're measuring everything right you know what I mean yeah and
she so I guess right after they're born they drop a little birth weight yes and then they
come right and then they come right back so she's made a nice recovery she's bounced right back and
and uh hair a lot of hair a lot of hair we have the same haircut it's super sick Kate looked at
me looked it seriously we got the same haircut it's incredible and and do you do you have a like
a as a famous uh movie star you probably have an enormous staff do you have an enormous staff huge
people you haven't even met people I don't even know like who are you but we've actually
kept it really quiet it's just been uh family you got to do that you got a family there Kate
and I and family and it's we've just been very it's just been really chill actually and and
the the thing that served me well through this procedure because they give it to you
and they let you here's the dumb thing they give it to you and they let you drive it home
did you have to sign anything beforehand I'm sure there was a form but and now and
and you're and you're looking in the back and this is the biggest hazard in traffic because
in the back you have a three-day-old human you know a tiny little thing all swaddled
up and you can't keep your eyes off it in the rearview mirror and you're you're just about to
run into everything because you're not watching where you're going that is true I we can't Kate
and I can't take our eyes absolutely you just cannot the thing that served me well even now
is grandmother grandmother has every answer to every question every possible that's true
anything goes on that's right we call the moms yes better than any book better than
anything it's true yeah that is true well good I couldn't be happier for it that's
exciting and a middle name no just Syria Cruz beautiful oh good for you thank you good for you
[Applause] your kids your other kids are like 11 and 13 and stuff and and uh do you do stuff
like uh you you take them to ball games you take them to soccer practice and like a YMCA
and stuff like that do you do that kind of stuff sure take him you know I taught them how to ride
motorcycles and rock climb and motorcycles really yeah is that is that good for a 10
13 year old kid yeah they actually started when they were two no yeah I started right behind it
was a little 50s and I just they rode around and I'd run and chased them around and get
behind it was hilarious it was hilarious they love it and says are they pretty good at it now
yeah very good yeah they're very good very very very good athletes and and uh of course they have
soccer and baseball right we do all that stuff and and what happens at a soccer game when Jesus
Tom Cruise here you know it's not just another dad it's oh oh geez look at that I know yeah it's uh
you know they're so cool about it that everybody everybody becomes chill you know uh a lot of
times there's there's uh I have a press cord that I go to the game with that you know not
voluntarily you don't invite them they don't they just show up and but they're actually very polite
and they get the photos and then watch the game and you know they actually start following the
games you know because I'm going to the Papa I say hey Connor pitched great today you know
what uh this is a typical a dumb guy mistake we've been talking here about the baby and
about you and we really haven't talked about the mother hey how is she that's she doing
well I tell you thank you for asking she's magnificent she she has done so well and I I
it's incredible she's an incredible woman she's incredible mom she's good looking
what he said you know that's the first thing that I noticed really yes I went
oh my gosh yeah yeah yeah it's kind of uh yeah she's good looking she's um the the
mission impossible uh three and I'm I'm I only got to see an hour of it so but I
I can tell you but we only gave you an hour no no I I had to get to my facial
but uh there's a thing there we're going to send it to you in 10 minute increments you know like
10 minutes here uh uh but there's a thing where uh you and the the lovely uh Felicity woman are
are going yeah oh yes she's nice you're going off a uh you're going off a building onto a truck yes
and and uh to me it looks like uh well geez it looks like he actually went off a building onto
a truck we did we did that was the first time uh that she's done anything like that she did
great we actually went off a building down onto the truck right that's what we did but I mean I
remember Flames yeah yeah explosion when she was here she mentioned that she had done that
and and I said oh yeah but then uh I saw it and it really looked but but honestly tell you I did
and she did that she was incredible and beforehand I said listen you know there's a chance with the
explosion if your hair catches on fire if you catch on fire you know please don't let go I'll
put you out and if you look at the shot I was the one that caught on fire the explosion happened and
she's I'm going like this and burning embers are flying off my hair and I look at her and
she's going oh my gosh I said well better me than than they care but I mean is that safe uh for a a
young actress a young actor anybody to be lowered off a thing onto a truck honestly no [Laughter]
well how do you how do you even do that well we don't tell them that it's yeah we don't
tell them we're just just gonna there's we're going down on a wire but there's
things hanging out from the building and so you're telling me that everything we see in
that scene actually happened it's it's not a generated electronically no no it's not it's
not computer generated that happened we came out of that window and went right down on top
of that truck wow I know in in one take we did it a couple of times and you want to watch the
because what I what I get concerned about is if you start rocking because we're traveling
at such a high speed that if you hit anything on the side of the building I was you know and carry
is uh she's a dancer and a tremendous athlete but I felt responsible for if anything happened so I
but nothing happened except for my hair caught on fire yeah but but better my hair than exactly but
in the movie you are uh responsible for her yes as well as the lives of other people uh
let's show a clip here do you know what this is going to be I have no idea no I'm kidding except
it's on parachuting out of something parachuting out or some parachuting I don't know whether I'm
jumping off a building or parachute I think I'm parachuting out of a window
parachuting a parachuting I'm sorry all right Matt's Matt's acting okay parachuting Mission
Impossible three now these these movies are wildly successful aren't they I mean they're
just crazy the first two like 400 million dollars domestically it's crazy isn't it it's crazy yeah
family's in good shape I would guess hence the very extended staff oh
that's right yes all right here it is Mission Impossible three take a look God bro it was
you're not really I was pulled on a cable and pulled down and this is how you separated your
ribs is that what that was yeah during the sequence I actually uh separated six ribs
before this before this scene it's painful you can't laugh you can't cough you can't you know
what I was surprised Ed you don't feel the pain at first you feel as if you're going to
you know and you can't breathe and I didn't tell anyone when it happened no I you know people get
nervous sometimes if I if anything happens if I trip I don't want anyone to work then they what
are they going to get me yeah all right cruises down call Letterman call later bring a letter
uh but you know who's in the movie is Philip Seymour Hoffman great actor and
and uh it's interesting because uh people who have seen Capote and who will now see
him in this your kid's thinking well wait a minute we want Truman Capote in this movie
he's unbelievable yeah he is I couldn't wait to play those scenes with him and and in the movie
really an unpleasant fellow yes unsavory care really a very very nasty guy I mean more than
you can even conjure yes unsavory character not the kind of guy you want to go and hang
out with is uh is the baby with you now are you traveling with the baby no she's just a
couple weeks old nobody heading home tomorrow night good for you uh great pleasure thank you
enjoy the success and your family thank you Tom Cruise ladies and gentlemen Mr possible three
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