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Cruise, Holmes discuss love at first sight

“I knew I wanted to marry Kate when I met her,” Tom Cruise says in the Dec. 7 issue of T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
/ Source: Access Hollywood

It was more than just love at first sight for Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

“I knew I wanted to marry Kate when I met her,” Cruise says in the Dec. 7 issue of T: The New York Times Style Magazine.

The magazine’s “Holiday/Reinvention Issue” has two separate interviews and split covers for its upcoming issue — one with Holmes and one with Cruise. Both interviews are by writer Lynn Hirschberg.

Cruise bought the ring shortly after their first date. And the feeling was mutual — according to Cruise, Holmes later told him that she had had a crush on him for years, even dreaming of marrying him as a little girl.

“I was completely in love,” Holmes told the mag of meeting Cruise, admitting that her feelings started young. “I admired him growing up — he’s Tom Cruise! I ... maybe had his photo up on my wall.”

The couple have been at the center of a tabloid tornado since beginning their whirlwind romance in April 2005, with Cruise grabbing a number of headlines for his unexpected exploits — from jumping on Oprah’s couch to his successful surprise appearance at Matt Lauer’s recent Friar’s Club roast. In 2005, Cruise called the TODAY host “glib” as he argued heatedly about anti-depressants.

“My feeling is, go big or go home,” Cruise said in the T interview, laughing off past controversies.

But there’s one thing he wants to keep to himself, speaking regretfully of placing his new family in the “adventure” of superstardom. It’s Holmes who wouldn’t want go back to the way things were.

“No,” she said. “My life has expanded.”

In the interview, Cruise also talks about his latest film, “Valkyrie,” his film choices over the course of his career, coming out to L.A. for the first time to meet up with Sean Penn, and his recent roast of Lauer.

Holmes, photographed for the magazine in an old Hollywood motif, discusses her turn on Broadway currently in “All My Sons,” growing up in Toledo, Ohio, her first early auditions and spending time with daughter, Suri.