When you put Tom Cruise and motorcycles on the same set, action and adventure are bound to ensue. His new film Knight and Day, in which he teams up with co-star Cameron Diaz for the second time, does not disappoint. Diaz plays June Havens, a woman who finds her everyday life tangled with that of a secret agent, played by Cruise, who has realized he isn’t supposed to survive his latest assignment. As their campaign to stay alive stretches across the globe, they soon learn that all they can count on is each other. We caught up with the man for whom no mission is impossible to talk about Knight and Day and being back on the big screen with Cameron.

Tell us about the film.
It’s a romantic action comedy story about girl meets boy. Boy and girl fall in love, then they split up, then they make it through this wild adventure which starts in Boston and goes to Salzburg, Austria, then Jamaica; and it’s just a wonderful fun adventure.

You play Roy Miller. What’s his story?
My character is a guy who works as a spy, a secret agent, who has basically given up his own life to live this life and has been working for his country. At the beginning of the film he’s essentially trying to help out this guy who is an inventor of this battery, and his life collides with this woman who becomes entangled in this whole story.

This woman, we all know, is Cameron Diaz. Were you excited about the opportunity to work with her again?
When I read the script I couldn’t wait to see what she was gonna do, and as a fan of her work and a fan of her movies, I wanted to see her play this part. She is just incredibly talented, funny and athletic. In this character, I just loved seeing what she did with it. We worked together on Vanilla Sky, and I wanted to find something else to do with her. I really enjoy working with her.

You both do some pretty amazing stunt work in this movie.
I love to entertain the audience, and part of making these movies is that I do my own stunts. I think it adds to the excitement for the audience. It’s fun to do and I enjoy doing that.

I think you will enjoy seeing Tom Cruise do what he does best in Knight and Day. It is definitely a throw back to the Tom we love in movies like Mission Impossible and Top Gun. The film is playing right now in theatres nationwide. It is rated PG-13 for sequences of action and violence and brief strong language. Email me your favorite Tom Cruise movie to Vivian@reelcriticstv.com for your chance to win a pair of movie tickets to the Studio Movie Grill, and don’t forget to check out my show Reel Critics for all of this week’s new movies and more of your favorite celebrities on Time Warner Cable Video on Demand under the North Texas programming tab!