A day before she blindsided husband Tom Cruise with a divorce filing, Katie Holmes was business as usual, even sitting down for an interview with C magazine.

In the interview for the September issue of the California lifestyle mag, Katie, 33, however did not want to talk about Tom, 50, and seemed to go out of her away to avoid speaking about him.

"Going back over the tapes, there were signs: Holmes was certainly very aware of herself, laying a couple cards on the table but never showing her whole hand," senior editor Kelsey McKinnon, who interviewed Katie, tells WWD. "Most noticeably, the one name decisively absent from her lexicon: Tom Cruise. She never actually refers to him by name over pages and pages of transcription."

For example, when McKinnon asked Katie if having Suri, 6, brought her and Tom closer together, a flustered Katie responded: "I don't know. I mean. . . I don't know." She added, "People have been having babies a long time."

When it comes to the future of her career, Katie revealed she was "ready to take on some more challenging roles."

"I feel like I worked so much at such a young age that I really wanted to have life experiences. I feel more balanced and like I have more to bring to the table," she stated. "I always felt like I wanted to catch up [in my personal life] to what I was doing [in my career]."

Photos From Katie's Edgy Photoshoot With C Magazine Are Below! Read more of this post