his is the interview that inspired Christian Bale in his role as Patrick Bateman in American psycho. A whole lot of smiling and laughing with nothing behind the eyes. A never ending façade.@@gmcd2816
Imagine just chatting and laughing and having a good time being yourself and all of a sudden people say you have an intense laugh with nothing behind your eyes 😂
It's to remind the people watching on TV that there's a live audience and it's recorded on air. Because apparently we need forced laughter to and applause to remember that 🙄
This is the interview that inspired Christian Bale in his role as Patrick Bateman in American psycho. A whole lot of smiling and laughing with nothing behind the eyes. A never ending façade.
The constant smiling/ dead eyes throughout the interview was very odd, and the lack of empathy for the passenger during the pilot story is certainly reminiscent of a sociopath. However, that story was absolutely hilarious lol
This interview was not back in the 90s. He said here that his kids were 9 and 11, and if you look up when they were born it means this interview was maybe in 2004
This is like something from Seinfeld or Curb I swear. The incessant questions about rock climbing when Cruise is there to talk about some movie probably are gold
@@preesi1403Nope ,People they just exaggerate it coz They hate him for He's a Scientologist, He knows his job;He's a trained pilot and ex-Scientologists I know em,They start their vids sayin' Tom Cruise could get away with murders implying We don't know how many murders He's done. Fuckin idiots
Hahaha I feel like I'm watching myself whenever I have told a story when I see Tom Cruise telling this story.. now I know why people think I'm crazy LOL
I told my tattoo it's I want to scars on my face and blacking out my eyes it was painful but I did not twitch after he was done I demanded for a mirror he said what I repeat it and angry i said mirror!!! As I was moving solely not just yet of getting up I started to cackle and laugh he said in an upsetting way I did what I could are you okay? As I got up look at myself and that bigger mirror he says sir are you okay as I laugh even louder in pain and laughing and calmly said I never felt better with the creepiest smile don't ask why you will never understand why
I can imagine that passenger watching this, realizing that's why he has brain damage and can't remember anything, deciding to sue Tom Cruise for turning his oxygen off, then forgetting two minutes later due to his brain damage.
@@space99dude they flew at a higher altitude to get to their destination faster, not out of necessity. Traded that guys brain cells for some extra time.
Imagine laughing this hard and diabolically about _literally suffocating someone_ in the back of the plane so you could fly a little higher and a little longer. Tom Cruise in a nutshell everyone.
Can't believe some of the comments. That's a totally real laugh. Just because he may be part of a nut job organization, doesn't mean he doesn't have a sense of humor. That truly was some funny shit.
@@lorimiller4301In this case, the analogy should have been the guy who pushes someone down the stairs later jokes about it while laughing, rather than just other people finding the fall funny.
Funny also how no one seems to have the same criticisms of conventional religions which are all equally bizarre and cultish. Or criticisms about the way we don't seem to have any problem with half the world in poverty. It's just minds reacting to things that are not familiar to their program.
I am 1:30 into this video and this man has given the most bare bones answer to the questions, like he doesn't want people to know what he's doing. I can see how Christian Bale got inspired.
It's a very internal joke, he's reliving the moment in a safe perspective....I laugh about things uncontrollably after the fear and worry is gone...it proves he's human with a great sense of humor.
I don’t believe for a second he goes actual mountain climbing and Letterman knows it. Cruise looks so uncomfortable in that chair and at 1:34 he slips and says “wall”.
That’s because he’s talking about rockclimbing and Letterman is talking about mountaineering. They are two different activities, but these guys don’t realize that they’re not talking about the same thing during the interview.
How to put down annoying flyers down for a nap. Having climbed mountains, i understand what he meant by...it wasnt dangerous but the guy was sleepy. Its a weird phenomenon, cuz youre safe, but it feels like naptime came early.
He's just laughing really hard! There were thousands of less social filters in 1999 compared to 2023. No doubt those were sincere laughs from Cruise & Letterman! Cruise might be focused and very intense, but he's no psycho. When you have that much money, fame and influence, it's going to cause you to see the world a little differently and more strangely than the rest of us.
Letterman is alarmed and tries injecting some sense into him in bits but Tom is too oblivious and too far gone. This is something that truly earns the adjective "terrific".
i mean, i think it's just one of those moments (someone commented the same thing on this video) where you're laughing, you know you should stop, but the harder u try to stop the more u laugh. idk why our brains do this but it happens to all of us, seems like it was just caught on camera here. on the other hand, cruise is known as a staunch supporter of Scientology, and that shit gets real weird and real unethical very quickly. so...idk that being said, i thought this interview was hilarious.
I had a prejudice against him, but now I think he has proven to everyone that he is a very smart and successful guy and even very, very advanced for this world
I 💝 this enterview. No idea why so much drama, it's just a male telling how he, and a friend did something men do a lot... something stupid. Just a normal male. I love him.
It actually wasn't stupid. It was about resource management in the cockpit to ensure the guys who needed it, the ones flying the plane, had adequate oxygen. At that altitude it's not dangerous to the passenger, just a funny story. Better the passenger fall asleep than the pilots.
@@e.l.norton His hands went into claws which is an extreme pain reaction to oxygen loss from extremities being diverted to the organs...this can result in PTSD. You don't know what you are talking about. Do not play with people's oxygen levels...I know sadism is being normalized thru breath play etc but people need to stop normalizing loss of oxygen.
Nothing out of the ordinary about this interview. It was funny cuz tom couldn’t keep it together. Theres that moment in everybody’s life when we’re trying to tell a story thats so funny to us we have a hard time keeping it together. That was the moment for tom. The interview was hilarious and if he got a psycho rap from it then the real psycho’s are the ones claiming the interview odd.
He couldn't hold it together about a guy's hands cramping from lack of oxygen he perpetrated. Even Letterman is horrified & puts in a few digs but the man is too deranged and unselfaware to notice that Letterman is not laughing with him. Tom is in his own psychotic line of reasoning/bubble that it's actually hilarious smh...very cringe
While the story is funny and his laugh is contagious, there is something very off about him, and those of us who have dealt with psychopaths (in our jobs or personal life) can very easily pick up on. His deadpan eyes, the over compensation on being friendly, his body language, tone of voice, posture, the very deliberate words he speaks... all of these things may not be obvious for some but for others it makes our skin crawl.
@@ashleyvaughn4305 god forbid he mentions the correct ages of his kids, btw this interview was in 2004 when he was promoting collateral, not in 1999 like a lot of ppl are claiming.
the crowd laughs for no reason just like tom, because the crowd can subconsciously sense that tom cruise's persona is entirely put on. Tom feeds on that sort of energy and it becomes synergy which enduces tom to laugh uncontrollably for no reason.
One of the very few times in this show Letterman actually laughed. Cruise was laughing so hard, he managed to drag Lettermans' depressed sorry ass out of his eternal misery for just a while
It's interesting how Cruise seems to be changing his body language throughout the conversation... In the beginning his upper body is just slightly to the left but in the end he seemed to have more and more went absent with his shoulder and upper parts 🤔 or do i just see that wrong? And he also keeps eye contact more in the beginning
OKAY! PEOPLE ALLUDING THAT CHRISTIAN BALE GOT HIS INSPIRATION ON HOW TO PLAY THE PART OF PATRICK BATEMAN IN THE FILM AMERICAN PSYCHO FROM THIS INTERVIEW IS FALSE. AMERICAN PSYCHO WAS FILMED IN 1999 AND RELEASED IN 2000. THIS INTERVIEW WAS FILMED IN 2004.
Impressive, very nice. Let's see Christian Bale's laugh
American Psycho's everywhere, dayum 👀🤣🤣
Epic comment 😊
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Why would you compare this to American Psycho? 🤔
his is the interview that inspired Christian Bale in his role as Patrick Bateman in American psycho. A whole lot of smiling and laughing with nothing behind the eyes. A never ending façade.@@gmcd2816
The, “we turned his oxygen off” story is the most Patrick Bateman story I’ve ever heard someone tell irl.
Truly sociopathic
For real. Like… WTF? 😳
He is crazy.
Tom Cruise is a psychopath.
Tim Cruise laughing so hard about asphyxiating someone in the plane.
American Psycho indeed.
It seemed Tom had been holding in that laugh for a decade
May be they told him to laugh like that in his sect.
Imagine just chatting and laughing and having a good time being yourself and all of a sudden people say you have an intense laugh with nothing behind your eyes 😂
There is an idea behind Tom Cruise
Some kind of abstraction
But there is no real me.
@@5spec only an entity
@@315916 something illusory
@@OAudaz_and though I can hide my cold gaze
Tom almost killing a guy: 😂😭🤣
Dave: 👀
👄
I’m most confused by the crowd laughing after every sentence…
It's late night, it's what they do. Kinda sucks though cause it ruins the momentum of storytelling
It's to remind the people watching on TV that there's a live audience and it's recorded on air. Because apparently we need forced laughter to and applause to remember that 🙄
I know right, audience laughing at letterman asking climbing technical questions was confusing 🙄
@@elajaff9422 It's because it was somewhat obvious (normal) questions. Tom was like: "Why is he asking me all tha stuff? Makes no sense."
it's bc letterman kept asking boring questions
This is the interview that inspired Christian Bale in his role as Patrick Bateman in American psycho. A whole lot of smiling and laughing with nothing behind the eyes. A never ending façade.
That laugh was very real.
Eh, don't just pile on because that's what some dumb news story said. Most of us totally disagree... this seems SUPER genuine and hilarious.
This isnt true
The constant smiling/ dead eyes throughout the interview was very odd, and the lack of empathy for the passenger during the pilot story is certainly reminiscent of a sociopath. However, that story was absolutely hilarious lol
This interview was not back in the 90s. He said here that his kids were 9 and 11, and if you look up when they were born it means this interview was maybe in 2004
Impressive, now let's see Paul Allen's inspiration
It’s creepy how accurate Christian bale got to this interview
He wasn’t even talking about this particular interview.
this isn’t even the right interview
@@L3ONARDO07 Bale himself didn’t mention anything at all. But what supposed interview do you think Bale got inspired by?
He got inspired by his laugh and his easy going happy attitude when he had no emotion whatsoever in his eyes.
this interview was done 2 years after american psycho came out.
i know people say tom is creepy and this interview was an example but like ... this interview was kinda hilarious
It really wasn't... Guy is a clown, but not the funny kind.
This was literally the inspiration for Christian Bale's mannerisms and performance in American Psycho
@@SStupendous to be fair, Christian Bale's mannerisms and performance in American Psycho was also kinda hilarious at times.
Yeah, and so did the audience. People watching this on TV in the 90s laughed too. I've seen it a few times, laughed every time.
@@jimmymcgill2772 Yep. gotta agree
In the middle Tom ducked out saying I have to return some videotapes
is this that crhish?
This is fred
I know you're a better gentleman than thish sir
This is like something from Seinfeld or Curb I swear. The incessant questions about rock climbing when Cruise is there to talk about some movie probably are gold
"So what happened when you turned his oxygen off?"
"He was very quiet."
🤣
😂😂😂😂
2:20 the scientology slips out for a brief moment..
3:34 so I wouldn't have picked this as Tom Cruise's creepiest but this story and how hilarious he finds it...OK I get what Bale is talking about
"Yeah, 9 11"
*Cruise laughs and the audience laughs*
This interview was in 1999.
lets see Paul Allen’s Letterman interview
“I almost killed someone!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂”
-Tom Cruise
His name was Paul Allen...
And then i listened to 'hip to be square'
*Roaring laughter from the audience*
Hey Paul!
This is actually one of the most hilarious interviews, I come back to this video every couple years for a good laugh lol
I’m not a TC fan but I’ve done the same thing. The first time I saw this video I laughed so hard I had tears.
If you laugh you need a psych evaluation
@@preesi1403Nope ,People they just exaggerate it coz They hate him for He's a Scientologist, He knows his job;He's a trained pilot and ex-Scientologists I know em,They start their vids sayin' Tom Cruise could get away with murders implying We don't know how many murders He's done.
Fuckin idiots
This is the laugh of a man who doesn't have care in the world 😎.
💀🩸🪓😎
He's got the entire machine of Scientology behind him. 🤷
“Oh my God it even has a watermark”
I would not feel safe around this man in ANY situation.
Well that’s good because you will never get near this man in any way, shape or form
@@xc9034 And that a loss for me 😂
@@billklingon6806 I mean it would be a win if it was the opposite so sure
The guy in the back of the plane was Paul Allen
This is so classic. It will never get old
He is a true maniac.
American Psycho
Same
@@reynaldofrancis8960 same
I love this Christian Bale fact!
Everyone looked for this comment
Ive had this kind of laughing before. Particularly after ive smoked weed. Its like the laughing is so strong it controls you
Hahaha I feel like I'm watching myself whenever I have told a story when I see Tom Cruise telling this story.. now I know why people think I'm crazy LOL
Same. Tom Cruise is just like me for real.
I told my tattoo it's I want to scars on my face and blacking out my eyes it was painful but I did not twitch after he was done I demanded for a mirror he said what I repeat it and angry i said mirror!!! As I was moving solely not just yet of getting up I started to cackle and laugh he said in an upsetting way I did what I could are you okay? As I got up look at myself and that bigger mirror he says sir are you okay as I laugh even louder in pain and laughing and calmly said I never felt better with the creepiest smile don't ask why you will never understand why
I can imagine that passenger watching this, realizing that's why he has brain damage and can't remember anything, deciding to sue Tom Cruise for turning his oxygen off, then forgetting two minutes later due to his brain damage.
Yeah but I get it was a choice between the pilot and passenger. Obviously need the pilot awake so everyone survived.
@@space99dude they flew at a higher altitude to get to their destination faster, not out of necessity. Traded that guys brain cells for some extra time.
When I feel sad, I watch this video
Bret Easton Ellis wrote Tom Cruise into the novel he lived in the same building as Bateman
It's hilarious that Dave just keep on asking more questions about climbing
"So, do you enjoy that activity?" :D
I don’t know, that laugh seems pretty genuine to me when he’s talking about being in that plane.
That is the worrying part
Impressive, let’s see Paul Allen’s interview.
damnnn I see it now, the inspiration for american psycho
didn’t this come out after american psycho?
Nope this was in 1999, American Psycho was made in 2000
Holy shit I see where the inspiration was taken here
Watching these old interviews back you realize how fake everyone is, the audience literally laugh at everything, they can't have a normal conversation
The exact same laugh as Christian Bale in American Psycho
Imagine laughing this hard and diabolically about _literally suffocating someone_ in the back of the plane so you could fly a little higher and a little longer. Tom Cruise in a nutshell everyone.
This goes right up there with Jimmy Fallon and Bradley Cooper
Can't believe some of the comments. That's a totally real laugh. Just because he may be part of a nut job organization, doesn't mean he doesn't have a sense of humor. That truly was some funny shit.
He's really tickled at the guy's suffering. Totally not a sane reaction, more like a sadist's/psychopath's reaction.
@@testtest2609 c’mon it was a funny story
People laugh every time someone falls down. It's not very nice but it can be really funny. 🤭😁🙃
@@lorimiller4301In this case, the analogy should have been the guy who pushes someone down the stairs later jokes about it while laughing, rather than just other people finding the fall funny.
Funny also how no one seems to have the same criticisms of conventional religions which are all equally bizarre and cultish. Or criticisms about the way we don't seem to have any problem with half the world in poverty. It's just minds reacting to things that are not familiar to their program.
It’s hard to fake laugh that hard. what a talent.
"I'm supposed the way I was lying"😅😅😅
I see it, I see it.
Tom is hilarious. He takes no question seriously 😂
It's a great interview, thanks for sharing this, never seen Tom laugh this hard, it's great.
Bateman being based on this makes perfect sense. 😂
I am 1:30 into this video and this man has given the most bare bones answer to the questions, like he doesn't want people to know what he's doing. I can see how Christian Bale got inspired.
It's a very internal joke, he's reliving the moment in a safe perspective....I laugh about things uncontrollably after the fear and worry is gone...it proves he's human with a great sense of humor.
Bold to assume he was “worried” about the man’s life
This interview cements why his role in Collateral is eerie af. This dude is a nut. 😂
The last story was hilarious!
I don’t believe for a second he goes actual mountain climbing and Letterman knows it. Cruise looks so uncomfortable in that chair and at 1:34 he slips and says “wall”.
I think he's trying to avoid saying specific places to avoid mobs
TC is an adrenaline junky… no reason to think he wouldn’t climb actual Mts
@@espositolnethen you’re an idiot. Cruise is clearly a narcissist and a pathological liar. This interview shows how evident that is
That’s because he’s talking about rockclimbing and Letterman is talking about mountaineering. They are two different activities, but these guys don’t realize that they’re not talking about the same thing during the interview.
1999 is a different era ... 😳
Only Nicolas Cage is crazier than Tom Cruise
How to put down annoying flyers down for a nap.
Having climbed mountains, i understand what he meant by...it wasnt dangerous but the guy was sleepy. Its a weird phenomenon, cuz youre safe, but it feels like naptime came early.
Ok, watching American Psycho tonight again
Tom just wanted to show everyone his new business card, eggshell white...
Nothing else.
He's just laughing really hard! There were thousands of less social filters in 1999 compared to 2023. No doubt those were sincere laughs from Cruise & Letterman! Cruise might be focused and very intense, but he's no psycho. When you have that much money, fame and influence, it's going to cause you to see the world a little differently and more strangely than the rest of us.
Letterman is alarmed and tries injecting some sense into him in bits but Tom is too oblivious and too far gone. This is something that truly earns the adjective "terrific".
@@testtest2609 nah bro this shit funny af 🤣
i mean, i think it's just one of those moments (someone commented the same thing on this video) where you're laughing, you know you should stop, but the harder u try to stop the more u laugh. idk why our brains do this but it happens to all of us, seems like it was just caught on camera here.
on the other hand, cruise is known as a staunch supporter of Scientology, and that shit gets real weird and real unethical very quickly. so...idk
that being said, i thought this interview was hilarious.
its almost like tom is thinking about killing letterman
Like a true anime villain.
Scientologist Tom Cruise's face oozes EVIL. Turns off oxygen, laughs, has his climax out of evil.
I'm surprised that he didn't jump up and down on his chair , like he did on Opray, while reliving that wonderful memory. Tom is the king of Kooks. .
I had a prejudice against him, but now I think he has proven to everyone that he is a very smart and successful guy and even very, very advanced for this world
This is like a really bad first date where one person is doing all the work
it's called an interview dumb fuck
this is one of the most hilarious simple interviews of all time
That was hilarious!!! Lol😂
He has no self-control on these tv appearances. Oprah, Letterman.
Like a giddy schoolboy.
I 💝 this enterview. No idea why so much drama, it's just a male telling how he, and a friend did something men do a lot... something stupid. Just a normal male. I love him.
It actually wasn't stupid. It was about resource management in the cockpit to ensure the guys who needed it, the ones flying the plane, had adequate oxygen. At that altitude it's not dangerous to the passenger, just a funny story. Better the passenger fall asleep than the pilots.
He's really tickled at the guy's suffering. Most people would feel empathy not find it hilarious.
@@testtest2609 The guy didn't suffer. He slept. It's actually a very funny story.
@@e.l.norton His hands went into claws which is an extreme pain reaction to oxygen loss from extremities being diverted to the organs...this can result in PTSD. You don't know what you are talking about. Do not play with people's oxygen levels...I know sadism is being normalized thru breath play etc but people need to stop normalizing loss of oxygen.
@@testtest2609 His hands went NUMB. That is the opposite of an "extreme pain" response. Stop over-dramatizing.
Nothing out of the ordinary about this interview. It was funny cuz tom couldn’t keep it together. Theres that moment in everybody’s life when we’re trying to tell a story thats so funny to us we have a hard time keeping it together. That was the moment for tom. The interview was hilarious and if he got a psycho rap from it then the real psycho’s are the ones claiming the interview odd.
He couldn't hold it together about a guy's hands cramping from lack of oxygen he perpetrated. Even Letterman is horrified & puts in a few digs but the man is too deranged and unselfaware to notice that Letterman is not laughing with him. Tom is in his own psychotic line of reasoning/bubble that it's actually hilarious smh...very cringe
@@testtest2609he was laughing too thougu
“Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now you Fu___ Stu___ Bas___! “
Tom turns off oxygen.
Letterman with the Hans Landa line of questioning
Very nice, very nice. Now let's see Paul Allen's interview
Did anybody note Letterman farted on the minute 2:26? Tom definitely noted it.
While the story is funny and his laugh is contagious, there is something very off about him, and those of us who have dealt with psychopaths (in our jobs or personal life) can very easily pick up on. His deadpan eyes, the over compensation on being friendly, his body language, tone of voice, posture, the very deliberate words he speaks... all of these things may not be obvious for some but for others it makes our skin crawl.
Can a psycho literally conquer the action genre in hollywood?
@@thosedzones6430 can a businessman and a demented senile be president of the united states?
@@thosedzones6430 why not bro wow he’s a celebrity so he can’t be Hollywood doesn’t give af who u are
He’s probably a sweet person he just got odd eyes , they’re droopy kind of . I’ve met crazies with big beautiful eyes
Dude. You need help
That plane story is hilarious!!!
And did you catch the age of his kids...? 9 and 11. 🙄
@@ashleyvaughn4305 so?
@@ashleyvaughn4305 god forbid he mentions the correct ages of his kids, btw this interview was in 2004 when he was promoting collateral, not in 1999 like a lot of ppl are claiming.
The copilot was none other than the missing precious SHALLY Miscavage. *
This is what inspired American Psycho’s character, according to Bale
He can response quickly to some questions thrown at him....
the crowd laughs for no reason just like tom, because the crowd can subconsciously sense that tom cruise's persona is entirely put on. Tom feeds on that sort of energy and it becomes synergy which enduces tom to laugh uncontrollably for no reason.
Damn…I would’ve never noticed
Lol Tom is Soooo full of himself creepy much definitely american psycho vibes
I really enjoyed that 😂
Who's here because of Christian Bales copycat performance in American Psycho Comment ?😂
I don't think you can really be a "celebrity" let alone a very popular one, without having psychopathic capabilities
"Yeah, 9/11"
9 and 11, the ages his children were in 2004, should he lie about their age?
I simply am not there.
I am not a fan of Tom Cruise but also at 1:22 when he laughs I think he is just like, how are we still talking about climbing??
Nah it’s because he was lying but letterman kept asking questions and Cruise couldn’t think of the answers.
This is nice.
One of the very few times in this show Letterman actually laughed. Cruise was laughing so hard, he managed to drag Lettermans' depressed sorry ass out of his eternal misery for just a while
😂😂😂😂
You must be a big Jimmy Fallon fan
Another Martini, Letterman?
This was hilarious. People urgently need to loosen up.
There really is nothing behind his eyes
Everyone talking about how this was actually funny. I hadn’t laughed once. I love Tom. But damn those eyes make me so uneasy.
I dunno about you man but I'm laughing to the point that there's tears in my eyes. The plane story is hilarious
@@dougdoug9223nah it's not funny. It's his laugh that made you think so
He slept the whole way… so that was nice.
It's interesting how Cruise seems to be changing his body language throughout the conversation...
In the beginning his upper body is just slightly to the left but in the end he seemed to have more and more went absent with his shoulder and upper parts 🤔 or do i just see that wrong?
And he also keeps eye contact more in the beginning
Coccaine wears off
It’s because he’s lying about mountain climbing but the flying he’s being truthful about.
OKAY! PEOPLE ALLUDING THAT CHRISTIAN BALE GOT HIS INSPIRATION ON HOW TO PLAY THE PART OF PATRICK BATEMAN IN THE FILM AMERICAN PSYCHO FROM THIS INTERVIEW IS FALSE. AMERICAN PSYCHO WAS FILMED IN 1999 AND RELEASED IN 2000. THIS INTERVIEW WAS FILMED IN 2004.
2:40
I think he's laughing because this guy is interviewing him as if he's a rock climbing specialist
I love this interview lolol,never seen Tom laugh this hard.