Matt Lauer on Infamous Tom Cruise Interview There Was a Cold War Period After That
It's been eight years but Matt Lauer's 2005 interview with Tom Cruise in which the actor called the TODAY show host glib and criticized Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants is still one of the most infamous TV tongue-lashings in recent memory. During a lengthy sit-down with Lauer on Wednesday, June 19, radio host Howard Stern resurfaced the incident and asked the NBC morning show anchor to recall how everything went down
There are times where, when you least expect it you get someone who sits on this couch and all of a sudden you say something and you can see in the person's' eyes a physical change Lauer, 55, told Stern on his Sirius XM show. "That was one of those times
I knew I was going to go in a certain area and you watch the change, and then it's your job almost to get the hell out of the way
It touched a nerve, no question he added later of the whole psychiatry vs Scientology debate which ignited Cruise's rant That was a very big nerve in his life and in his belief system
Lauer said Cruise's public relations people called the show after the taping and asked that the whole anti-depressant thing not be included in the broadcast but producers said no deal It was like Yeah without that, we don't have a segment he recalled
Things after that were initially icy between the two but Cruise later apologized in a 2008 interview with Lauer he admitted to coming across as arrogant and said their interaction did not go as he had intended
I want to put it in perspective Lauer told Stern because although there was maybe a Cold War period after that interview of about a year he since has come forward and said, you know, that was a strange time in his life and he regrets the way it came across A strange time, indeed The interview happened at the beginning of Cruise's romance with Katie Holmes shortly after his couch-jumping antics on The Oprah Winfrey Show
He] has gone out of his way to be awfully nice to me since then Lauer added noting that the Oblivion star paid tribute to him at a Friars Club roast in 2008 Later he stressed again It was a weird time in his life and career
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It's been eight years but Matt Lauer's 2005 interview with Tom Cruise in which the actor called the TODAY show host glib and criticized Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants is still one of the most infamous TV tongue-lashings in recent memory. During a lengthy sit-down with Lauer on Wednesday, June 19, radio host Howard Stern resurfaced the incident and asked the NBC morning show anchor to recall how everything went down
There are times where, when you least expect it you get someone who sits on this couch and all of a sudden you say something and you can see in the person's' eyes a physical change Lauer, 55, told Stern on his Sirius XM show. "That was one of those times
I knew I was going to go in a certain area and you watch the change, and then it's your job almost to get the hell out of the way
It touched a nerve, no question he added later of the whole psychiatry vs Scientology debate which ignited Cruise's rant That was a very big nerve in his life and in his belief system
Lauer said Cruise's public relations people called the show after the taping and asked that the whole anti-depressant thing not be included in the broadcast but producers said no deal It was like Yeah without that, we don't have a segment he recalled
Things after that were initially icy between the two but Cruise later apologized in a 2008 interview with Lauer he admitted to coming across as arrogant and said their interaction did not go as he had intended
I want to put it in perspective Lauer told Stern because although there was maybe a Cold War period after that interview of about a year he since has come forward and said, you know, that was a strange time in his life and he regrets the way it came across A strange time, indeed The interview happened at the beginning of Cruise's romance with Katie Holmes shortly after his couch-jumping antics on The Oprah Winfrey Show
He] has gone out of his way to be awfully nice to me since then Lauer added noting that the Oblivion star paid tribute to him at a Friars Club roast in 2008 Later he stressed again It was a weird time in his life and career
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