“Lone Survivor” star, Mark Wahlberg denies slamming his friend, Tom Cruise when he blasts actors comparing their acting jobs to soldiers on military duty in Afghanistan.

TMZ posted a video of the “Four Brothers” star claiming he did not know it was Tom Cruise who likened an actor’s job to a soldier’s actual combat in the Middle Eastern country. The gossip Web site asked Wahlberg for a statement on Afghanistan reference, following his emotional rant against actors who think their jobs can get any close to the daily circumstances real soldiers deal with on the ground.

It will be recalled that during the AFI Fest screening of Wahlberg’s upcoming film, “Lone Survivor,” in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Nov. 12, someone from the audience asked the actor about the infamous Afghanistan reference.

"For somebody to sit there and say 'my job was as difficult as being in the military.' How f**king dare you, while you sit in a makeup chair for 2 hours,” Wahlberg was quoted in his emotional response to the audience by TMZ.

The “Pain and Gain” actor continued by enumerating more ways to prove that actors’ jobs can no way come close to what any soldier has to go through in the battlefield.

Wahlberg added, "I don't give a s**t if you get your ass busted. You get to go home at the end of the day. You get to go to your hotel room. You get to order your f**king chicken."

His emotional response soon made headlines with countless news outlets reporting that it was a statement with a direct target at Cruise.

The "Mission Impossible" actor and producer faced backlash when a statement from a deposition for the libel case he hurled against Life & Style and In Touch magazines. In the statement that emerged online, Suri’s dad explained that he failed to get in touch with daughter for a long time while away filming, “Edge of Tomorrow aka All You Need Is Kill.”

He explained that his busy schedule was the primary reason he didn’t see his daughter for an extended period of time.

TMZ quoted the opposing lawyer handling the deposition as using analogy of Tom Cruise’s job and a soldier.

"Now your counsel has publicly equated your absence from Suri for these extended periods of time as being analogous to someone fighting in Afghanistan," TMZ quoted the opposing lawyer as saying, then describing Cruise as having no reactions when asked the question, as seen in a video now with the news Web site.

"I didn't hear the Afghanistan, but that's what it feels like and certainly on this last movie it was brutal, it was brutal," Cruise said, according to TMZ.

The comparison is denied by Cruise’s lawyers who insisted that Katie Holme’s former husband was taken out of context. Wahlberg, 42 refused to comment when the TMZ cameraman asked him if the infamous “Cruise-Afghanistan reference” was indeed blown out of proportion and simply just either legal and media spin.

Wahlberg, however, insisted that he still meant what he said at the AFI Fest comparing soldiers’ military duty and actors’ job, describing it as unfair. The actor also emphasized that he loves Tom Cruise and that he is a big fan.

“I didn’t know that Tom Cruise was the one who said that,” the “Lone Survivor” star was quoted by the New York Daily News as telling TMZ. “I love Tom Cruise.”

Watch the complete VIDEO by TMZ here.

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