Tom Cruise Denies Comparing Acting To Going To War In Afghanistan
Tom Cruise did not compare his job as an actor to that of a soldier fighting in Afghanistan, according to his lawyer. The A-lister is fighting recent reports, saying that the media only published selected quotes from his deposition to make him look bad.
According to the legal documents obtained by TMZ, the 51-year-old “Oblivion” star not only thought he trains harder than Olympic athletes, but believes his job as a professional actor is as gruelling as fighting the war.
In a recent deposition he attended, Cruise was questioned by a lawyer from Bauer Publishing, which he is suing for USD50 million for publishing two stories in tabloids in 2012 that claimed he has abandoned his 7-year-old daughter Suri after divorcing Katie Holmes.
He was quoted as saying, “That’s what it feels like,” referring to the comparison of his location shoots to that of serving a tour in Afghanistan. “And certainly on this last movie, it was brutal. It was brutal.”
But according to the actor’s camp, what news and gossip sites failed to show is the part where he expressly denied such assertion.
“Headlines stating he equated his job with those in the military are demonstrably false. They are a distortion of what is probable and on the record. Certain Web sites have published only a part of the proceedings misleadingly selected by the defendant Bauer Publishing,” his lawyer Bert Fields said in a statement on Saturday.
“What excerpts leave out is the part where Tom was asked the question point blank ‘do you believe the situations (being in a movie and fighting a war in Afghanistan) are the same?’ and his immediate response was ‘oh come on!’ Meaning – of course not.
“Tom is a staunch supporter of our troops and does not feel that making a movie is even remotely comparable to fighting in Afghanistan and said so in plain English.”
During the deposition, he has also revealed that Holmes filed for divorce because she did not want their daughter to grow up as a Scientologist.
“Ms Holmes has never indicated in any way that was one of the reasons she left you? ...To protect Suri from Scientology?” a lawyer from Bauer Publishing asked the actor.
“Did she say that? That was one of the assertions, yes,” Cruise relented.
Cruise and Holmes married in 2006 and divorced in 2012.
