Known for his work behind the camera, famed director Judd Apatow was the star of the Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday and poked fun at Tom Cruise while hosting the show.
In his opening monologue, Apatow eviscerated Cruise for character, interests, and even size.
“The special effects in ‘Maverick’ were so excellent that I couldn’t even see the pile of phone books that Tom Cruise sat on to reach for the flight controls,” Apatow teased in his monologue about the stature of 5’7” of Cruise and aviation planes in “Top Gun: Maverick,” per Variety.
“Remember when Tom Cruise jumped up and down on the couch and we all thought, ‘How crazy! from the top of a cliff and BASE jumps and we all say: “Tom is fine!”
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Acclaimed director Judd Apatow hosted the Directors Guild of America Awards and tackled “Top Gun: Maverick” star Tom Cruise in his opening monologue. (Monica Schipper/Steve Granitz)
“Tom is not well,” Apatow continued. “Someone needs to explain something called CGI to him. You’re 60. Calm down.”
Cruise is known for doing most of his own stunts, some of which can be seen in his latest Best Picture Oscar-nominated Top Gun: Maverick.
“But every time he does one of these new stunts, it looks like an ad for Scientology,” Apatow joked. “I mean, is that in Dianetics? Because there’s nothing about jumping off a cliff in the Torah.”
Judd Apatow roasted Tom Cruise on a plethora of topics as host of the DGA Awards. (Kevin Winter)
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Apatow went on to attack Cruise’s personal decisions, including his parenting and his stance on drugs.
“The only thing he seems afraid of is co-parenting and antidepressants,” he said. “I doubled my Prozac today just for that. I doubled it! You think if Tom Cruise was on antidepressants, he’d be like, ‘I’m not fucking jumping off a cliff. I’m rich!’ “
Cruise, who has three children, two of whom he adopted with ex-wife Nicole Kidman and a daughter with ex-wife Katie Holmes, has been openly opposed to drugs.
Tom Cruise likes to perform his own stunts for movies. (The Chosunilbo JNS/Imazins)
In a conversation with Matt Lauer on “The Today Show” in 2005, Cruise discussed his issues with psychiatric drugs.
He described psychiatric drugs as “dangerous”, an opinion which he said was independent of the Church of Scientology’s choice not to use “psychotropic drugs”.
Neither a representative for Cruise nor the Church of Scientology immediately responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Jerry Bruckeimer and Joseph Kosinski, producer and director of “Top Gun: Maverick” attended the Directors Guild of America Awards. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Steve Granitz)
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While Cruise was not present for the awards show, “Top Gun: Maverick” producer and frequent Cruise collaborator Jerry Bruckheimer was present.
According to Variety, director Joseph Kosinski didn’t seem amused by Apatow’s remarks during the show.
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