When most individuals consider Hollywood star Tom Cruise, his most well-known roles come to thoughts.
Some recall his ’80s portrayal of pilot Pete Mitchell in Top Gun, whereas others would possibly consider his character Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible franchise.
But for Oprah Winfrey followers in 2005, Cruise will without end be immortalised for his weird couch leaping antics and public declaration of affection for his then-girlfriend, Katie Holmes, stay on tv.
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Cruise’s look on the discuss present was an enormous coup for Winfrey. The Jerry Maguire actor, scorching off the heels of his divorce from Nicole Kidman, was having an enormous profession second.
The actor was supposed to be selling his new Stephen Spielberg-directed blockbuster, War of the Worlds, however the dialog with Winfrey rapidly devolved to his new romance with Holmes.
The interview had little to do with Cruise’s new movie and it is now half of popular culture folklore due to how he acted whereas sitting on the infamous couch.
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Minutes into the interview, Cruise started to gush about Holmes, barely in a position to comprise his ardour and pleasure. He could not cease laughing as he darted round the room.
A bemused Winfrey may solely utter this sentence. “Something happened to you,” she mentioned.
“I’m in love!” Cruise proclaimed, earlier than embarking on a collection of bodily shows of pure euphoria. “She’s truly extraordinary.”
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“I’ve never seen you behave this way before, have you ever felt this way before?” she requested, earlier than Cruise jumped onto the couch – a second that has adopted him for the previous 18 years.
Winfrey may barely comprise her personal shock at Cruise’s behaviour as the section rapidly spiralled uncontrolled.
The veteran interviewer appeared unable to return the interview to normality. “You’re gone,” she saved repeating.
Cruise’s comical outburst turned front-page information, was splashed throughout TV screens and impressed numerous op-eds and articles.
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Parodies started rolling in, one even airing on the kids’s present Sesame Street.
Winfrey would later admit she was shocked Cruise’s couch jump became such a pivotal cultural second.
“Certainly, I did not think it would turn into the brouhaha that it did,” she advised TV Guide.
“I thought it was an expression of delightful exuberance and love that any woman…would be thrilled to have her man jump on a sofa in love with her.”
Cruise’s show of affection did nothing to save his relationship (and later marriage) to Holmes.
After welcoming daughter Suri the 12 months after the interview in 2006, the couple referred to as it quits in 2012.
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The temper of their bitter, drawn-out cut up was world’s away from Cruise’s freshly-in-love elation.
Three years after the infamous interview, Winfrey and Cruise met once more on The Oprah Show.
It marked one in all the few occasions he acknowledged his antics on the couch – and this time, he was somewhat calmer.
“It was a moment,” he mentioned. “It was something that I just felt that way. And I feel that way about [wife Katie Holmes]. And it’s something, you know, that’s just how I felt.”
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