Tom Cruise: “Tom Cruise would never have salsa music in a film”

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Before I get into the strange National Enquirer story about Tom Cruise, has everybody seen this video (below)? Tom and Robert Pattinson doing a promo for the MTV Movie Awards, and it’s actually really funny! Tom goes back into character as Les Grossman, the Sumner Redstone-ish parody Cruise did for Tropic Thunder. Pattinson plays himself, and he’s asking Les is he (Sparkles) should cut off his hair. I have to admit – Tom is really funny. So funny, it almost looks like Sparkles was having a hard time keeping a straight face:

Very cute. If Tom continues to show that he has a good sense of humor (about himself, especially) and if he continues to sound sober, lucid and sane in interviews, I’d say people will either fall back in love with him, or continue to love him as they always have, without regrets. Now, for the strange stuff. The Enquirer claims that Tom was acting crazy on the set of Knight and Day. Something about salsa.

Tom Cruise — desperate for a blockbuster hit — snapped while filming his latest movie, sources say.

The fading superstar’s bizarre behavior on the “Knight and Day” set rocked his marriage to Katie Holmes, and crew members feared he was cracking up, according to insiders.

“No one has ever seen Tom so close to the edge,” an insider told The ENQUIRER. “One day he was going 200 mph and trying to do 10 things at once. He was barking orders, trying to listen to music and tweak the distribution schedule all at once. We thought he was going to crack right there.”

The 47-year-old actor startled crew members with his weird tics, and insisted on changing the movie’s score just weeks before its June 25 release, said the insider.

“Tom developed this bizarre habit of referring to himself in the third person,” the source said. “He’d say things like, ‘Tom Cruise is an action star — he’d never have salsa music in a film!’ Going through dialogue that was already shot, he’d yell out, ‘We’ve got to redo this. Tom Cruise would never say that line!’ It was like he was talking about another person! It was very strange.”

“Tom is obsessed with making ‘Knight and Day’ a blockbuster,” said the insider.

And with her husband manic on the set, Katie crumbled, said the source.

“At one point, she cried, ‘Tom’s so stressed out that I don’t know him anymore. I just don’t know how much more I can take,'” said the insider. “There definitely was tension at home because Tom would insist that Katie and their daughter Suri fly to Boston on weekends during filming. Katie resented it. After making three movies and scoring a hit on Broadway, she was finally spreading her wings as a performer. Then suddenly, she was pulled back into playing ‘Mrs. Tom Cruise’ again.”

[From The National Enquirer, online and print editions]

Blah, blah, the story goes on to say that Tom and Cameron Diaz were doing reshoots in April, which is bad mojo for a summer film, but worst stuff has happened. I’ll buy that Tom is a perfectionist and he’s probably very demanding of his crew and coworkers, but…I don’t know. Talking about himself in the third person? I guess. Hating salsa music? Eh. And as far as the Katie Holmes stuff, I’m actually getting tired of it, and I love a good Xenu-demands-a-divorce story. I think Katie is sticking around, no matter what. She has to fulfill her contract.

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Tom & Katie at the National Movie Awards in London on May 26, 2010. Credit: WENN.

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  1. CadieBelle says:

    Tom is incredibly talented and funny. He just keeps picking the wrong projects. I guess that happens when people are afraid to say no or give their honest opinion. I

  2. Amneh says:

    I like it now that people are laughing with Tom rather than at him.

  3. GatsbyGal says:

    @Amneh – Noooo…no, we’re still laughing AT him, I assure you.

  4. lucy2 says:

    He seems like he does occasionally get a bit manic, and for some reason I can totally buy him referring to himself in the third person.
    As for all the stuff with the crew and going nuts over the film, I kind of doubt it though. I’ve never heard of him acting unprofessionally on set, aside from having Xenu tents there.

  5. EB says:

    The MTV business is clearly part of his PR strategy, and Cruise is nothing if not strategic in getting the public to love him again.

    This movie does not look very good – even for a summer blockbuster. The trailer wasn’t that well received, and he needs a hit to separate himself from the disastrous exposure of the past. Oh and yes, doing re-shoots on a big budget picture at this late a date is NOT a good sign – it’s coming out in four weeks!

    It’s a good idea on paper, though – a comedic take on the spy thriller. It remains to be seen if it will actually work in real life. I will not be watching it – as I boycott as much $cientology product as I am able.

    If you want a real laugh check out Eric Bana doing a Tom Cruise impersonation!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySDkIwWHk74

  6. ThatBKChick says:

    Tom is on somethin. I’ve always thought he was on some stuff…this does not surprise me…I always wondered what happened with him and Penelope Cruz…”No Salsa” in my film….He is a complete weirdo and idiot. I’ve always thought that Nicole Kidman escaped the mental torture that Katy Holmes is going through…somehow I think Kidman is looking through “rose colored glasses” thinking…I finally got away from him and that weird sect called Scientology.

  7. Statler says:

    “George likes his chicken spicy.”

  8. Jacqueline says:

    He seems bipolar to me-he should get some um, meds. If Xenu allows it lol.

  9. abbizmal says:

    Good picture at the top there. He looks crazy. I agree with Jacqueline, he needs meds. He may be working on his image, but I bet he’s still bat shit crazy. I never understood his appeal, even before he hopped on the crazy train.

    Thanks for that Eric Bana link. Now EB is hot.

  10. Beth says:

    Even for Tom Cruise this story seems really over the top. I actually think Night and Day looks funny.

  11. original kate says:

    statler – you took the words right out of george’s mouth. george is getting angry!

  12. Carrie says:

    Doesn’t erase the fact that Tom Cruise is a crazy Scientologist, BUT I did find that clip pretty damn funny.

    The man’s a whack-job, but there is still a lot of acting talent there.

  13. canadianchick says:

    Mmm Eric Bana, we need more of him on this site. Tom’s smile is just too big, fragile, and stabby, kwim?

  14. a says:

    he’s a dedicated entertainer takes his job seriously and good at it…certainly I appreciate that, and I can separate from his personal life.I have seen him 2 times in hollywood out in public and he is always friendly and not aloof. too bad about scientology…. but everybody has a blind spot i guess

  15. Hautie says:

    I want to believe Katie has a super secret plan to force the Xenu crap out of their personal life.

    And she looks good here. Her makeup done and hair grown back out. She is starting to look like herself prior to them meeting.

  16. poopie says:

    maybe he’s shooting barley water !!

  17. Anne de Vries says:

    He still laughs like he’s thinking about eating my eyeballs…

    I think his sanity levels may have improved to the extend that he’s hired some good PR bods instead of going with Scientology lackeys. Or maybe Scientology recruited some really good PR people for him…

  18. Maritza says:

    He looks deranged when he smiles like that! I agree, I think he is bipolar. It would be nice to see him do a comedy movie, he is pretty good at it.

  19. Gwen says:

    That crazy smile of his really creeps me out. We get it, Tom, you’re happy, your life is perfect, and you’re the manliest man that ever manned! Sheesh… also, only douchebags talk about themselves in the third person!

  20. Jazz says:

    Jazz is growing weary of Tom Cruise and Katie-bot.

  21. Just a Poster says:

    When Tom is on.. he is on fire.. but the first picture still screams CRAZY to me.

    And Katie does look great in the picture. She almost looks happy.

  22. SolitaryAngel says:

    “He still laughs like he’s thinking about eating my eyeballs…”

    @Anne de Vries, that is the FUNNIEST shit I’ve heard to describe that maniac smile EVER–LOL! Thanks for the laugh…I really needed it!

  23. nobody says:

    i think it is a little bit weird that people totally give nicole a pass as far as the scientology wackiness which she benefited from in a way… she was treated like a princess by them…how many of those sea org semi-slaves waited hand on foot on her while she and tommyboi stayed at their villa at the cult compound? and the field of wildflowers that they had installed…

    it just all stinks to high heaven. lol

  24. cruiz2 says:

    This was probably taken out of context. Perhaps diversity in music wasn’t the right scenario! Not a tom fan at all, but maybe it was an artistic call?

    Find them both very boring, not earth shattering or innovative! They use Suri for that!

    Giving a slight chance to them, otherwise, a BIGGER write-off!

  25. g says:

    pretty obviously gay

    -well over being astonished or even bothered.