Mission Impossible III – Tom Cruise

Movie star Tom Cruise was in Rome, Italy to promote his latest blockbuster on Monday, but his main mission was to rush back home to his bride-to-be Katie Holmes and baby daughter and resume diaper duties. The 43-year-old told a news conference in Rome ahead of the world premiere of “Mission: Impossible III” that he would cut short the European promotional tour, which was also to have taken in Paris where he and Holmes were engaged 10 months ago. “It was everything that we wanted it to be and more,” Cruise said of the birth last week of Suri. “It was really very spiritual.” The Hollywood A-lister suggested that he wasn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. “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 diapers. It’s teamwork. It’s fun.”

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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 was his first
biological child.

Cruise said he would be in Rome for eight hours, allowing him to attend the red
carpet before the premiere, but would then fly back to the United States.

He was joined at the briefing by other stars from the film, including
Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman who plays the arch-villain, a black-market
arms dealer.

 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, but the eternal city also has personal
history for Cruise.

Rome was 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.

His whirlwind romance and public discussions of his belief in Scientology, the
church founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, have also made Cruise
the butt of countless jokes. — Reuters