Judd Apatow Mocks Tom Cruise’s Peak, Scientology at DGA Awards – The Hollywood Reporter

Judd Apatow let unfastened on Tom Cruise throughout his DGA Awards monologue on Saturday evening, roasting the celebrity on all the things from his peak to his dedication to Scientology.

Apatow, internet hosting the award present for the fourth time, began off the bit by teasing that the “visible results in [Top Gun:] Maverick had been so top-notch I couldn’t even see the stack of telephone books Tom Cruise sat on to succeed in the flight controls.” He continued, “That’s why he’s all the time leaping out of tall buildings as a result of you may’t inform how quick he’s from a 100-story constructing. That’s why when he’s standing on a wing of an airplane he’s all the time alone, he doesn’t need anybody there subsequent to him for scale.”

The director famous how when Cruise jumped up and down on the sofa whereas on the Oprah Winfrey Present in 2005, everybody thought, “‘What a lunatic.’ Now he drives a motorbike off a cliff after which BASE jumps, and we’re all like, ‘Tom’s superb.’”

“Tom just isn’t superb, one thing is flawed proper now,” Apatow mentioned. “Somebody wants to elucidate one thing to him known as CGI — you don’t must do the stunts, they appear precisely the identical if you do them on the inexperienced display.” He jokingly informed Cruise that on the finish of Thelma and Louise, they didn’t truly drive off a cliff, declaring, “You’re 60, settle down.”

He then shifted to Cruise’s well-known relationship with the Church of Scientology, saying, “Each time he does certainly one of these new stunts it does really feel like an advert for Scientology, it actually does. I imply, is that in Dianetics as a result of there’s nothing about leaping off a cliff within the Torah? The one factor he appears to be afraid of is coparenting and antidepressants,” to some viewers gasps. “Do you assume if Tom Cruise took antidepressants he’d be like, ‘I’m not leaping off of a fucking motorbike on a cliff? Why do I even work, I’m wealthy.’” Cruise’s High Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski (who was nominated for the evening’s high prize) and producer Jerry Bruckheimer had been current for the monologue, although the star himself didn’t attend the present after showing on the Oscar Nominees Luncheon earlier within the week.