Judd Apatow mocked Tom Cruise during his DGA Awards monologue – “Every time he does one of these new stunts, it does feel like an ad for Scientology”

Apatow mocked Cruise's height, stunts, and relationship with the Church of Scientology in his monologue of the DGA Awards.

By Bollywood Hungama News Network -

February 21, 2023 - 1:42 PM IST

Judd Apatow returned for a fourth time to host the 75th Annual DGA Awards. At the award show, Apatow made punches on Tom Cruise's height, stunts, and his involvement in the Church of Scientology in his opening monologue of the Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday.

Judd Apatow mocked Tom Cruise during his DGA Awards monologue – “Every time he does one of these new stunts, it does feel like an ad for Scientology”

As reported by Variety, the jokes began with the topic of the Top Gun star’s height saying, “The special effects in ‘Maverick’ were so top notch, I couldn’t even see the stack of phone books Tom Cruise sat on to reach the flight controls.”

He continued, “Remember when Tom Cruise jumped up and down on the couch and we all thought, ‘What a lunatic!'” Apatow said, referring to the infamous 2005 incident on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” “And now he rides a motorcycle off a cliff and BASE jumps and we’re all like, ‘Tom’s fine!'”

“Tom is not fine. Someone needs to explain to him something called CGI. You’re 60. Calm down,” Apatow added. The filmmaker also referenced Cruise's connection to Scientology, which caused some gasps from the audience. “But every time he does one of these new stunts, it does feel like an ad for Scientology. I mean, is that in Dianetics? Because there’s nothing about jumping off a cliff in the Torah.”

The 60-year-old actor’s Top Gun: Maverick film is currently competing for Best Picture at the 2023 Oscars. It has also received four additional nods for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing and Best Sound. Meanwhile, further in his monologue, Apatow went on to poke fun at the actor’s family life and his opinions on mental health. “The only thing he seems to be afraid of is co-parenting and antidepressants,” he said.

“I doubled my Prozac today just for this. I doubled it! Do you think if Tom Cruise took antidepressants, he’d be like, ‘I’m not jumping out of a fucking cliff. I’m rich!'” Meanwhile, referring to Everything Everywhere All at Once directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Apatow also called out the DGA in his monologue saying, “People are complaining this year that all five of the best director nominees are men. But that’s not true. One of the nominees is two men.”

He even poked fun at Elvis star Austin Butler’s Elvis voice saying, “Austin Butler is still talking like Elvis. Not a bad person to be stuck talking like. Unfortunately, his next project is ‘The Jerry Lewis Story.’”

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