Tom Cruise tells Oprah he wants more challenges
Windy City (Reuters) - Hollywood's stars paid tribute to Tom Cruise on Monday's Oprah Winfrey television demo, with the actor saying he hoped for more challenging roles and to mold with the likes of Al Pacino and Henry M. Robert DeNiro.
In the irregular of 2 interviews with Cruise, Winfrey aired highlights since the actor's breakthrough function 25 days in 1983's "Risky Clientele," including a ostensibly death-defying stunt from "Missionary post: Impossible 2" in which a bare-chested Cruise leaps across a rocky drop.
Cruise said he dangled from a thin wire during quaternion years of shooting the view.
The film clips were interspersed with videotaped congratulations from a long lineup of celebrity friends and co-stars, including actors Testament Bessie Smith, Dustin Hoffman, and Renee Zellweger, film director Steven Steven Spielberg, soccer participant Saint David Beckham and his married woman, Victoria.
Cruise repaid the compliments in full, locution he hoped to work with "so many" other actors, among them Pacino and De Niro.
"I'm actually surprised how a lot I've accomplished," the 45-year-old histrion said, responding to an hearing member's question around whether he had done everything he set out to do.
"I feel actually privileged to do what I do, and I give thanks you for allowing me to entertain you," he said. "As you go along, you recall, 'how can I save challenging myself even to a greater extent?'
"I finger at home plate on that flick set. A lot of times I show up up before the crew. And I feel this is what I'm supposed to do."
Victoria Beckham is reportedly set to return to U.S. TV show Ugly Betty after her successful cameo role last year. The Spice Girl appeared in the show playing herself as a bridesmaid to Vanessa Williams' catty fashion boss character, Wilhelmina Slater. Impressed TV bosses asked Beckham to return and the star has now reportedly agreed to a regular guest spot on the program. A source tells Australian newspaper the Sydney Morning Herald, "The producers are delighted she will return. She is going to feature quite a bit." The show is becoming famous for its celebrity cameos, with supermodel Naomi Campbell and Lindsay Lohan both appearing in the latest series of the hit comedy.
