“Tom is INCREDIBLY nice”

For all the Dutch speaking fans among us – Dutch tv show RTL Boulevard aired a small interview with Dutch actress Halina Reijn who was offered a small part in Tom’s movie Rubicon (formerly known as Valkyrie). She played in Zwartboek (Black book) with Carice van Houten; after seeing this movie Tom invited both women to star in his next blockbuster.

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Translation of the video clip
Female presenter Daphne Bunskoek: “Between filming in Berlin for her role in a real Tom Cruise-movie, we talked to Halina Reijn. Tom and she are ‘best buddies’ and fortunately she also takes some time to appear at the Dutch Film Festival.”

(video clip of Halina starts.) Voice over: “After years of playing the second violin Halina comes to the Dutch Film Festival with three films ‘in her bag’. But hey, with so much shooting hours she must fight for having a bit of a private life.” Halina: “I have – for example – just purchased a house of my own for the first time, which I consider a big investment.” (we see Halina being interviewed) “So it’s getting more and more a thing of trying to have a life in reality and not just fleeing into fiction.”
(video clip of Halina in a red dress.) Halina: “Hi Linda – excuse me, but – I just hear that Eline prefers not to see mee any more so I’m leaving, but I noticed that your Porsche is parked right in front of my car, so would you please be so kind to remove it?”
Voice over: “In the royal tv-drama ‘The prince and the girl’ she playes Princess Mabel. Her ex-boyfriend Fedjah plays [Dutch prince] Friso. Because of the busy work scedual Halina almost sees more of her ex-boyfriend than she does of her current Belgian boyfriend, Roy.”
Halina: “The fun part of my boyfriend is that he’s absolutely not jealous. And that has indeed been difficult in the past, because Fedjah is so near by, so me being with a new man proved to be difficult, but with Roy, my current boyfriend, he understands that very well. He just enjoys the fact that I get along so well with Fedjah.”

Voice over (while showing a clip of BFFs Halina and Carice): “So best friend Carice van Houten can ‘tung wrestle’ with Tom Cruise in the war epic ‘Rubicon’,” (we see clip of Tom in Amsterdam, with clumbs in his hands, wearing sun glasses) “at the last minute Halina was also flown in for a tete-a-Tom.” (clip of Halina and Carice signing autographs on the red carpet)
Halina: “The fun about this is that I can experience all of this with Carice,” (Halina in the picture) “that we’re in this together (laughs), and that we can laugh about it together, every now and then. And that puts things in the right perspective. And I really like that. Because of that I’m not lonely there, or afraid. Everybody is really nice there. They’ve all seen ‘Black book’,” (clip of Paul Verhoeven and the cast of ‘Black book’ on the red carpet) “and that’s why we ended up in this movie. So it’s different from when you have to audition for the role, together with a thousand girls, you know? You feel really welcome, and they are huge fans of ‘Black book’, so yes, that was an incredibly huge moment to get there for the first time, and meet ‘him’ [meaning Tom] for the first time.”
Voice over (while seeing a clip of Halina getting out of a black car): “Halina finds the quickest way to Hollywood through her Tom-Tom.” (clip of Tom during his visit to Amsterdam is shown).
Halina: “He’s super professional and INCREDIBLY nice and likeable/kind. And, well, just an incredible sweet and fun human being. And inspiring to work with.”
Voice over (clip of Halina walking): “Despite a firm contract with a strict non-disclosure agreement included Halina talks candidly.”
Halina: “Of course, the first second you lay eyes on him, you think ‘wow!’, right? But after that, that feeling is gone. Because he’s just so.. ehmm.. down to earth, that – and yes, you can’t keep going on feeling like that. You don’t go around all these hours, thinking ‘Ohhhh!’ right, it just doesn’t work that way. As a human being, nobody is like that. Only when someone would behave like a star. If someone would want that to be validated all the time, that ‘he’s such a great star’ but he doesn’t have that AT ALL!” (end of interview with Halina)

Co-host Albert Verlinde: “That’s just a girls dream come true, right! There you are, two girls in Berlin, making a movie with Tom Cruise! By the way that movie gets a new title: Rubicon, that’s what we’ve also heard. And Halina says “yes,” – she has three movies on that Film Festival in Utrecht to be shown there, and she says “I just have well known movies from now on, and that’s why I get all this publicity”, and of course she enjoys all of this fully, and [other co-host] Peter was right when he said – because in the video clip we saw Tom Cruise walking – that wasn’t Tom Cruise, that was Frits Lambrechts, we all could see that of course” [silly joke, didn't understand it either] (all of them laughing, Peter stating that this is mean and that he didn’t mean that).

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