More congratulations from co-stars and others

Talk about an impossible mission: promoting a movie the day after its megastar and his famous-actor fiancee had their first child together. That was the case Wednesday as cast members of the new Tom Cruise film “Mission: Impossible III” did what they could to talk up their movie in the wake of the arrival of the baby girl delivered by actress Katie Holmes on Tuesday.

The film’s co-stars said they were happy for the new parents.
“Well, I’m thrilled for them, as a couple,” the American-born Hong Kong film star Maggie Q told AP Television News. “That’s an exciting thing for anyone, really. But, I mean, especially for them, because he loves being a father.”
A spokesperson from the film’s distributor, Paramount Pictures, said Cruise may reschedule media interviews for Friday. The film opens in U.S. theaters on May 5.

British actor Jonathan Rhys-Myers said there is, indeed, some value to all of the media attention paid to the baby – but not to the movie. “You know, I’m sure it’s very, very exciting because it’s a media moneymaker,” he explained. “Of course, how many magazine articles, magazine pages will be devoted to Tom and Katie and the baby? You know, it’s an industry. I just hope that they give Tom and Katie time to be new parents, and give that little girl the space she needs to grow up and be a little girl.”

Keri Russell said she at least partially understood the public’s fascination with the actors’ offspring. “I think it’s natural to feel like you know people that you see,” she said. “It’s just like it’s a fairy tale. You’re watching these archetypes. You’re watching them and you’re trying to find connections with your own life, and those are two very accessible people. And I get it. But you got to let them have their kid, do their own thing.”

But others questioned the intense interest and said the paparazzi should be regulated. “There’s gonna be a bill passed sooner or later that’s gonna draw a line …” actor Ving Rhames said. “We have to just think about, ‘What have we become? Why is all of this fuss over another human being?’”
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playfuls.com adds: Cruise announced the good news in a e-mail to TV host Diane Sawyer, who read it yesterday on “Good Morning America.” The actor said that “It’s a girl! It’s a girl! Her name is Suri and she is gorgeous.” He added that his fiancée “was and is a champ through the whole labor process”.

Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise’s ex-wife, which whom he has two adopted children, apparently said the following on the birth: “I hope both mother and baby are doing well,” but did not mention her ex-husband. Rumor has it that she recently had an argument with Cruise, because he wanted their children, Connor, 11, and Isabella, 13, to be present at Holmes’ birth. Kidman opposed this, saying that being in the delivery room would be traumatic for the children.

ETOnline has a little video of Celebs congratulating Tom and Katie with the birth of little Suri. AccessHollywood mentiones some details about the delivery and family comments.

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