The other day I’m looking through press releases on Google News for my new job, and I stumble across this. I thought it was kind of interesting. I thought, “I’d like to speak to this interesting woman.”

Niki Yan is a Chinese actress and writer. She saw the movie Top Gun at a young age, and was very inspired by Tom Cruise, as you can see in the article, and on her website MarryTomCruisein30Days.com (which she told me about during the course of the conversation). She’s now written a book called “My Love For You, Tom Cruise: A Desperate Chinese Girl’s Confession,” an “insightful and inspirational fun book” that is “devoted to the person who changed her life forever — Tom Cruise, the Hollywood movie star.”

Unfortunately, my tape recorder had a few issues during our interview, but I’ve transcribed it as faithfully as possible below. Enjoy.

Interview has been removed at request of subject.