Judd Apatow Jokes Tom Cruise’s Stunts ‘Feel Like an Ad for Scientology’ During DGA Awards Monologue

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Bringing the jabs. Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick was nominated for a prize at the 2023 Directors Guild of America Awards, and host Judd Apatow couldn’t resist a few shady jokes at the actor’s expense.“The special effects in Maverick were so top-notch, I couldn’t even see the stack of phone books Tom Cruise sat on to reach the flight controls,” Apatow, 55, quipped in his Saturday, February 18, monologue, per Variety, referring to the 60-year-old actor’s height. “Remember when Tom Cruise jumped up and down on the couch [in his 2005 interview about ex-wife Katie Holmes] and we all thought, ‘What a lunatic!’ And now he rides a motorcycle off a cliff and BASE jumps and we’re all like, ‘Tom’s fine.’”The  Knocked Up director added: “Tom is not fine.

Someone needs to explain to him something called CGI. You’re 60. Calm down. But every time he does one of these new stunts, it does feel like an ad for Scientology.

I mean, is that in Dianetics? Because there’s nothing about jumping off a cliff in the Torah.”Cruise, who has not publicly addressed Apatow’s DGA Awards remarks, first joined the Church of Scientology in 1987 amid his marriage to first ex-wife, Mimi Rogers. (After the couple’s split, he was briefly married to Nicole Kidman before moving on with Holmes, 44.)“It’s something that has helped me incredibly in my life.

I’ve been a Scientologist for over 30 years,” Cruise previously gushed about the religion during an October 2015 interview with ITV News. “It’s something, you know, without it, I wouldn’t be where I am.