Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise’s daughter Suri is getting an even younger start than either mom or dad when it comes to getting used to being on film sets. “She really likes movie sets,” revealed Holmes. “It's the second movie set that she was on and she loved the hair and makeup trailer.”
“Who doesn't? Even the men love the hair and makeup trailer,” joked Keaton. “They like to look very special too. They could spend hours in there.”
But not every aspect of working on the set of Mad Money was fun. Being hunted down by the paparazzi wasn’t something Holmes would label as particularly humorous. “But it's just there,” said Katie Holmes. “ I don't know. It's sort of like, 'Do we have paparazzi or do we not have paparazzi?' If you have them, you know how to handle it. And if you don't then, okay. But it's not yeah or nay. It's just like, 'Okay, what's on the agenda today?'”
Although it seemed as though Holmes was caught up in a whirlwind of romance and press attention when she first went public with her relationship with Tom Cruise, Holmes never viewed it that way. “I never thought that it was a whirlwind. It was a lot of attention all at once and I had never had that attention obviously, but I always knew that when I met Tom and it was like, 'Okay, when? Sure. Yeah. Right on. Let’s do it.' So I've always felt very comfortable and happy with everything,” said Holmes. “You learn more and more every day. And then when you have a child, it feels like you're reading an encyclopedia a day. You're always behind because children grow so fast and they're so magical. She's so magical. So things are good.”
Keaton has nothing but admiration for the way Holmes handles things. “What's happened to me as I've gotten older is that I feel like I've become more of an audience,” explained Keaton on observing Holmes and her other Mad Money co-star, Queen Latifah. “ I'm an audience person and I enjoy very much just seeing what's happening to younger women now and what their lives are like, especially women that are people I've worked with. That's the contact that I've had. That's what I liked about this movie, that the characters in this are all thrown together which never would've happened had we not had misfortune fall upon us. So the fact that we are thrown together, not with our choice – it wasn't our choice to be together – makes the friendship more sweet and more powerful and more meaningful because it opens up all of our lives to other people's lives. That's what it's been like knowing Queen Latifah and Katie. It's just being a part of watching what it's like for them and how they're handling their lives, and what it is to be a woman and what it is to be a mother. Dana wants to be a mother. We know that, and she's very excited about it and when Suri would come to the set, it's a reminder of all of that. When my kids would come to the set, too…it's all just really fascinating for me. I love it. I love how life is changing. I love how people have to adjust in different ways and how more women are taking more responsibility on and doing everything. That's very exciting because there was less of that when I was younger and now there's more of that.”
“It's particularly interesting to see Katie because of who she fell in love with and what the ramifications are of all that attention, and how you handle it and how you live that life that she's living. That's utterly fascinating and Dana too, because what about that life? That's a big life. She's entrepreneurial. She's not just an actress. She's an entertainer. She's a business woman. She's running a huge team of people. It's utterly fascinating and it's a learning experience.”
