It allegedly went down when the 2 crossed paths in 2010, whereas filming pre-taped segments for that yr’s MTV Film Awards.
Michael Cera’s first time assembly Tom Cruise was actually memorable …. simply perhaps not in the way in which he had hoped.
The Arrested Development star opened up about his first encounter with the “very pleasant” Cruise throughout Tuesday’s episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast, the place he recalled the primary time the 2 crossed paths in 2010 whereas filming pre-taped segments for that yr’s MTV Film Awards.
“It was surreal to work with Tom Cruise. It was fascinating. Tom, like, runs the set. I used to be actually there for, like, 5 minutes, however what I noticed was like he was like the primary [assistant director] on the set. … It was his factor. He was such a frontrunner,” Cera described.
However issues shortly took a flip when Cruise, identified for his depth and demanding professionalism on set, allegedly known as out Cera throughout filming.
“The primary second I had with him, I arrived, they have been taking pictures and I used to be speaking to the author … we have been simply form of mumbling whereas they have been taking pictures, however they may hear us,” he claimed. “It was simply, like, 40 ft away, and Tom Cruise seems to be at me — I’ve by no means met him, they’re in the course of a take — and he seems to be and he goes, ‘Is that Michael Cera speaking throughout a f–kin’ take?’ He was joking, nevertheless it was additionally like, ‘Do shut up.’ It was so surreal.”
The trade did not cease there.
The pair later met correctly, the place Cera says Cruise playfully gave him a tough time in regards to the incident.
“After which I met him and he was like, ‘Speaking throughout a f–kin’ take.’ I knew he was enjoying round, so I used to be like, ‘It wasn’t me, it was the author!’ He was like, ‘I am kidding, I am kidding.’ I used to be like, ‘ … I am kidding too,'” Cera shared.
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Whereas he is undoubtedly intense, Cruise has been identified to have a softer facet. Along with sending a lot of his associates and former co-stars coconut truffles from California’s Doan’s Bakery yearly, Cruise’s Mission: Inconceivable co-star Simon Pegg says he is very a lot only a “regular man.”
“I have been capable of hack my approach by means of all of the weird mythology that surrounds him. On one facet he is Tom Cruise — this enigmatic movie star everybody desires to learn about,” Pegg instructed The Occasions in 2023. “And on the opposite he is only a man. I like being regular with him.
As for the way Cruise unwinds, Pegg mentioned, “I do not know if he ever unwinds. He took us go-karting and zip-lining. He hates doing nothing.”
