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I'm Having an Episode

Simu Liu Will Build His Own James Bond + The Great Tom Cruise Christmas Cake Taste Off

I'm Having an Episode

The Hollywood Reporter

News, Tv Reviews, Entertainment News, Tv & Film

4.6527 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Actor Simu Liu opens up about his Hollywood learning curve, racism in casting and his new spy series after a quorum of Hollywood Reporter staffers debate the merits (and cost) of the L.A. cake that Tom Cruise famously gifts his friends and associates every Christmas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie.

0:04.0

Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy?

0:09.0

Oh God.

0:10.0

Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power, embarrassing Eddie, makes way for sensible Samuel.

0:15.0

Cool, that was close.

0:16.0

You might not always pick the right starter, but your sub can still deliver,

0:19.0

because with Paddy's super sub, your bet rolls over to the player coming on. Paddy Power. Valid on selected leagues and

0:24.3

markets only. Pre-match and in-play bets on qualifying player outcome selections only. T's and Cs and

0:27.8

exclusions apply. 18 plus scummelaware.com. Hi, I'm Mikey O'Connell. I'm a writer and editor

0:37.2

at The Hollywood Reporter, and this is I'm

0:38.9

having an episode. Today I'll be joined by Simul Liu, who you know from his work in Sean

0:45.5

Shee in The Seven Rings, Barbie, or Kim's Convenience. He's got a series dropping on Peacock

0:50.8

December 27th. It's called the Copenhagen Test. And as promised, I'll also

0:55.8

be joined by a quorum of colleagues to taste test Tom Cruise's famed Christmas gift to those in

1:03.7

his inner circle, the white chocolate coconut but cake from Doan's Bakery. But seeing as how this is

1:10.3

the last episode of the year,

1:12.6

and no one wants any more best-of lists, or my opinion, really, at all.

1:18.9

I thought I would just share what I plan on watching over the break.

1:23.0

Marty Supreme, this, of course, is Josh Safdey's new movie starring Timothy Shalame.

1:28.5

It's had one of the more interesting promotional tours I've seen for a while. And I haven't been able to make a screening of it.

1:35.6

And access, access, access. So if I only see one thing in the theaters before the calendar turns, it will be this.

1:44.0

If I see two, I will see The House Maid because Paul Fick directing Amanda Seifred and Sydney Sweeney and a Pulpy Thriller. Who am I kidding? Small things like these. So this movie actually came out a year ago, and you never saw it in theaters. It's based on this sort of jewel box of a novella by Claire Keegan.

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