Sound Bite: Tom Cruise & Bryan Singer
Bryan - Oh no we met at the premiere of mission impossible; the first one.
Tom – Yeah he Bryan and Chris and Nathan were working on it and they offered it to me and you know when I read a script first it’s it’s just audience and you know I found the film incredibly –I didn’t know about this so I heard about it well I knew about the briefcase and the table and I thought I knew what the story would be so I was like oh ok and I started reading it and I thought this is incredibly suspenseful and I couldn’t stop turning the page turning the page and of course it was in –I was on the edge of my seat with this I found it entirely engrossing and gripping and it’s so happen to be true. Because when I put it down I said No come on how much of this stuff is movie convention and how much of it isn’t. I have been wanting to work with Bryan since we met and uh (mumbles) We gotta make a movie together and um it took him 14 years to come around so we sat down.
Bryan – He was busy doing everything. Tom – (Laughs) And I said to find out these events actually occurred and actually the dialogue of these characters is also taken from journals and letters that you know they had written.
Bryan- You know it’s an incredible history incredible part of history and the story was so riveting right down to the very details of what happened. His first meeting with Hitler, which happened the day after D-day; just as does in the film and Hitler’s reaction to him and then Hitler’s reaction again when he saw him in the conference hut uh on the day of the assassination –Things like that. You there there’s –We benefit factually from an incredible investigation. That the Gestapo had done when they put these people on trial and uh you know it’s uh it’s you know –Anyway.

Sound Bite: Tom Cruise & Bryan Singer
Tom – But when you think about it. I think about him not being able to have those type of conversations with his children. Especially knowing what, what he felt about it. For him to be in that house and of course his wife knew but, to sit down and talk to his children and and to be able to say look this isn’t right I don’t agree with this I don’t agree with how they feel about uh on anything they couldn’t agree. You know I don’t agree with this ideology at all and yet his children are being inculcated into this system into that poisonous ideology –uh yeah definitely.
Bryan – But Yeah if the kid said something at school then their friends would tattle and they would all be arrested and sent to a concentration camp so, they lived in a totally different world.
Tom – You know it’s hard for us to imagine. You know we’re lucky we are very fortunate.