While making an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, the actor was asked about the game and shed insight on his friendship with Swift pictured in April
‘For real?’ Fallon asked him as Cruise confirmed and echoed back, ‘For real.’
Cruise continued to heap praise on Swift and also gushed about her friends and in-laws, ‘everybody’ else in the suite.
‘She was bringing the football,’ he said while reflecting on the football game from the night before.
‘First of all, she’s a genius. I’ve been following her since she was a kid,’ he added.
‘Everybody there, all their friends, they’re a beautiful couple and magical in their own right,’ he said about Swift and Kelce. ‘Everybody there in that booth.’
‘I hadn’t been to a football game since pre-COVID, where I was working and everything. So to get to hang out there and have that moment, it was a lot of fun,’ Cruise said. ‘She knows her stuff.’
On the late night talk show, Cruise and Fallon also mentioned how Swift did not know much about football prior to meeting Kelce.
The movie icon, 64, was sitting right beside the pop superstar, 36, in her VIP suite at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City for the Chiefs’ first game of the NFL season
He revealed what exactly they talked about while cheering on Swift’s husband Kelce, 36, as he and his team played a 31-10 home game against the Denver Broncos
The Top Gun star said Swift, whom he said was a ‘genius’ and ‘brilliant,’ ‘schooled’ him on the sport and they also had a discussion about their respective industries
Cruise continued to laud praise onto Swift and also gushed about her friends and in-laws, ‘everybody’ else in the suite
‘Everybody there, all their friends, they’re a beautiful couple and magical in their own right,’ he said about Swift and Kelce. ‘Everybody there in that booth’
On the late night talk show, Cruise and Fallon also mentioned how Swift did not know much about football prior to meeting Kelce; pictured in January 2025
‘She said, “You know, he’s so patient.” I said, “I’m sure he was.” I think everybody would be very patient [with her].’
‘[Now] she knows [about football] … she’s just bringing it,’ Cruise added before telling Fallon that their conversation at the game also included a discussion about music and movies.
‘She’s funny. She’s got such a great sense of humor. A brilliant writer also, by the way. Brilliant musician and director. Very skilled.’
Cruise was also one of the many A-list stars in attendance at Swift and Kelce’s wedding at Madison Square Garden in New York City on July 3.
