S22.E16: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Paloma Faith

[Athena]

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Graham Norton's guests include Tom Cruise, talking about his forthcoming blockbuster Mission: Impossible 6, with his co-stars Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson and Simon Pegg.

Plus music and chat from Paloma Faith, who performs 'Til I'm Done.

[Corgi-ears]

So Henry bought a car with his first big paycheque, Tom paid for his sister's tuition, and Rebecca bought...a nice pair of sunglasses. I'm going to pretend that this was Graham's shady but effective way of illustrating, in a super topical manner, the gender pay gap in Hollywood.

[notcreative enough]

On 1/30/2018 at 7:53 AM, Corgi-ears said:

So Henry bought a car with his first big paycheque, Tom paid for his sister's tuition, and Rebecca bought...a nice pair of sunglasses. I'm going to pretend that this was Graham's shady but effective way of illustrating, in a super topical manner, the gender pay gap in Hollywood.

To be fair Henry bought the car hos father I know nothing about cars but he made it sound like he wanted a less extravagant car. I'm sure they all did nice things for their families at some point. 

I kinda hate how nice and personable Tom can be on this show. (The only one I watch.) I always think wow he comes across as someone you want to spend time with. Only to remember he is in a cult and would try and recruits you and has no problem in seemingly abandoning his child. 

[attica]

Ah, the annual Tom Cruise Tongue Bath. Where everyone is so pleasant, but no one seems to be having fun. Tom is so strong,  so generous, so focused, so brave.  It's just an honor to be in his august presence. And maybe he'll get a helicopter license just so you can fly with him and, dadgummint,  get the shot! Sigh. He sits there like a pasha, letting everyone praise him, humblebragging at every opportunity.  Creepy.

I noticed that Tom's face is finally showing the melty-face effects of Too Much Work. He's losing expression-making ability. 

Paloma was truly committing to the whole Gloria Gaynor esthetic, both with the song and the sequined jumpsuit. 

Good Red Chair story from the Scottish guy.

[dubbel zout]

7 hours ago, attica said:

Ah, the annual Tom Cruise Tongue Bath. Where everyone is so pleasant, but no one seems to be having fun. Tom is so strong,  so generous, so focused, so brave.  It's just an honor to be in his august presence.

The perfect description of his appearances. Where everyone has to gush and not say anything remotely negative in order to preserve the great man's feelings. Ugh.

I'm also sick of hearing about the stunts Cruise does.

7 hours ago, attica said:

Paloma was truly committing to the whole Gloria Gaynor esthetic, both with the song and the sequined jumpsuit. 

With all of that, her song should have been more fun that it was, I thought. However, I've enjoyed Paloma since she shared the couch with Emily Blunt, who was absolutely charmed by her. Those two had great chemistry.

I take great pleasure that Cruise hates the Big Red Chair.

[Me Too]

19 hours ago, dubbel zout said:

The perfect description of his appearances. Where everyone has to gush and not say anything remotely negative in order to preserve the great man's feelings. Ugh.

I'm also sick of hearing about the stunts Cruise does.

With all of that, her song should have been more fun that it was, I thought. However, I've enjoyed Paloma since she shared the couch with Emily Blunt, who was absolutely charmed by her. Those two had great chemistry.

I take great pleasure that Cruise hates the Big Red Chair.

My theory is that he hates the red chair because it doesn't have anything to do with Tom Cruise.  No no ass kissing, not homage, no massaging the fragile Cruise ego. 

 

I meant  to also comment that when Cavill was talking about visiting his home all I could think of were all of were all of his Sea Org slaves working endless hours for next to no money with a smile on their faces and never looking him in the eye, not to mention having to put up with his pouty tantrums, etc.

Edited February 11, 2018 by Me Too
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[TexasGal]

22 hours ago, dubbel zout said:

The perfect description of his appearances. Where everyone has to gush and not say anything remotely negative in order to preserve the great man's feelings. Ugh.

I'm also sick of hearing about the stunts Cruise does.

With all of that, her song should have been more fun that it was, I thought. However, I've enjoyed Paloma since she shared the couch with Emily Blunt, who was absolutely charmed by her. Those two had great chemistry.

I take great pleasure that Cruise hates the Big Red Chair.

I fell in love with her during her appearance on one of my personal favorite episodes, with Bill Murray, Hugh Bonneville and Matt Damon.  They were all pretty sloshed and she just rolled with the punches.

I have lost all sense of reason with regard to Tom Cruise, and really have no idea if any episode he appears on is good or not because I just roll my eyes at everything he says.  I even thought it served him right to break his ankle.  But I didn’t watch the “gruesome” version of the stunt.

My cable provider is a week off with the descriptions, last week it said Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill etc.  This week it said will.i.am and whoever will appear next week, so I was utterly unprepared for the Cruise.

Edited February 11, 2018 by TexasGal

[movingtargetgal]

What really got to me was the fact that Tom Cruise got his helicopter license so he could fly a helicopter to do a STUNT.  If he wants to jump off a building and end up breaking his ankle, that's fine with me but to insist on doing his own helicopter stunts  WTF!!!!   He is risking the lives of everyone involved with or anywhere near that stunt.  That is insane.  Does no one ever say no to Cruise?  

[Quof]

Katie Holmes, apparently.

[attica]

Ooh, triple thickness burn!

[dubbel zout]

I'm pretty certain Katie has a lifetime, iron-clad NDA about the divorce, but what I wouldn't give to hear the real scoop on that.

[Bruinsfan]

Seriously, I'm hoping I manage to outlive him for her memoir tell-all alone.

 

I just hope he doesn't get Cavill mixed up in all that Scientology mess. As a high-profile image-conscious actor with, shall we say, a considerable amount of smoke regarding his personal life, he's a prime target for them. Of course Sea Org would have to plunge the world into a new Stone Age to get rid of all the photos of him out partying at gay bars.

Edited February 12, 2018 by Bruinsfan

[peeayebee]

I don't like Cruise personally, but I admire his work ethic, plus he usually makes entertaining movies. I think he's become more enjoyable on talk shows -- though I should qualify that by saying, on GRAHAM's show, because that's really the only talk show I see him on. 

I wanted to hear more from Henry Cavill because he seems like a more interesting person in real life than on screen. Loved Simon's joke about Henry being able to fly.

I thought the guy in the Red Chair was going to tell a story about being mistaken for Tom Cruise. He looked a lot like him.

[StatisticalOutlier]

On 2/10/2018 at 8:16 AM, attica said:

I noticed that Tom's face is finally showing the melty-face effects of Too Much Work. He's losing expression-making ability.

I noticed the enormous very dark circles under his eyes and can't for the life of me figure out why they weren't covered up.

 

On 2/11/2018 at 3:00 PM, TexasGal said:

I even thought it served him right to break his ankle.  But I didn’t watch the “gruesome” version of the stunt.

I'm very squeamish about gruesome stuff like that and never watch it--I don't even watch football tackles.  But this once I thought, "Eh, it's Tom Cruise.  I'll watch his ankle break."  It felt liberating.

[dusang]

On 2/12/2018 at 12:04 PM, dubbel zout said:

I'm pretty certain Katie has a lifetime, iron-clad NDA about the divorce, but what I wouldn't give to hear the real scoop on that.

Allegedly it was a five-year gag order that ended last year -- remember that show "The Arrangement" that seemed a thinly veiled version of TomKat?

Personally, I feel like Tom Cruise is a nice, perhaps not very bright, person who has been taken advantage of by a cult -- I kind of pity him.  I understand that both he, personally, and Sea Org collectively have a lot of sway in the industry but they can't be so all powerful to force everyone to speak well of him.  In his personal life he might be a dick but I have to believe that on set he is actually as nice as everyone says.  I mean, Simon Pegg is friends with JJ Abrams -- it's not like Tom or S could torpedo his career wholesale if he went off script, right?

[dubbel zout]

I thought the five-year thing was dating publicly? 

Whatever. Tom Cruise has a very weird private life that I’m very glad not to be a part of.

[Clanstarling]

On 2/11/2018 at 3:00 PM, TexasGal said:

My cable provider is a week off with the descriptions, last week it said Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill etc.  This week it said will.i.am and whoever will appear next week, so I was utterly unprepared for the Cruise.

Mine too, though I was prepared, sort of. Because Youtube always shows a few clips in the featured videos section. I subscribe to Graham Norton from back when we couldn't get it through cable, money reasons. I don't watch on YouTube anymore, but I still see whose actually on the show that week.

On 2/11/2018 at 9:30 PM, movingtargetgal said:

What really got to me was the fact that Tom Cruise got his helicopter license so he could fly a helicopter to do a STUNT.  If he wants to jump off a building and end up breaking his ankle, that's fine with me but to insist on doing his own helicopter stunts  WTF!!!!   He is risking the lives of everyone involved with or anywhere near that stunt.  That is insane.  Does no one ever say no to Cruise?  

I think it is totally ridiculous, from a financial standpoint, to let actors and actresses do the high risk stunts. Tom's ankle stopped production for, what was it, six months (six weeks). That costs everyone, but especially the crew. Add stunt helicopter to that, and that's just incredibly idiotic for the reasons you state.  It went from some actors being happy to do stunts, to expecting it of all (or many actors) to do them. Give stunt people a break man, they can do it better and need the employment.

[dubbel zout]

3 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

Give stunt people a break man, they can do it better and need the employment.

Nobody can do Cruise like Cruise!

[Clanstarling]

21 hours ago, dubbel zout said:

Nobody can do Cruise like Cruise!

Well, it is probably pretty hard to find an itty bitty stuntman. ;)

[Quof]

Don't they use a stunt woman for him? 

[Clanstarling]

2 hours ago, Quof said:

Don't they use a stunt woman for him? 

Hah!

[msrachelj]

has this episode and those after been shown yet? i haven't seen any episodes on direct tv since the one before this!

[sugarbaker design]

This is episode 16.  17 and 18 have already aired on BBCAmerica.  19 is on this Friday.