Tom loves changing nappies
2006-04-25 13:00
Rome - Movie star Tom Cruise, gushing
over his "spectacular" newborn baby, said on Monday his
bride-to-be Katie Holmes had convinced him to keep touring
Europe to promote his new film, Mission: Impossible III.
After announcing to a packed Rome press conference that he
was rushing home later on Monday to be with his family, Cruise
told Reuters on the red carpet at the film's world premiere that
Holmes and his baby girl, 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."
Cruise's Mission Impossible
Cruise also added that his "Mission Impossible" was tearing himself away from his newborn daughter to promote his new movie in the Italian capital.
"My mission impossible was to be here today," Cruise told reporters in Rome, where he was promoting the premiere of "Mission Impossible III."
"I didn't want to come," he said. "My daughter was just born, and I didn't want to leave her and her mother."
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 the 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."
Cruise has two older children that he adopted during his
marriage to actress Nicole Kidman - 13-year-old Isabella and
11-year-old Connor. Suri is his first biological child.
He said Suri's birth last week 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. The Hollywood A-lister also suggested that he wasn't
afraid to get his hands dirty.
Nappy duty
"I changed her first," he said. "I change diapers all the
time. 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 nappies. It's teamwork."
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.
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 in late April 2005, smiling for photographers
during the David di Donatello awards.
The following month, the twice-divorced Cruise made a manic,
couch-hopping profession of love for Holmes on The Oprah Winfrey
Show. The couple got engaged in Paris in June.
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."