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Once upon a time in the mid-2000s, a just-then-emerging Seth Rogen and an altogether-too-well-known Tom Cruise met to discuss working together on a project.
But the meeting ended with Tom Cruise trying to bring both Rogen and director Judd Apatow into the Scientology fold, according to Rogen.
He shared the story while on The Howard Stern Show to promote his new memoir, Yearbook.
According to Rogen, Cruise said "Big Pharma" was involved in a scheme to make him look crazy about Scientology, which then lead him into asking Rogen for 20 minutes so he could try to convert the Jewish man to Scientology.
"If you let me just tell you what it was really about … you would say, 'No fucking way. No. F**king. Way,'" Cruise reportedly said to Rogen.
The Tom Cruise revelations keep coming. On Twitter, journalist Yashar Ali posted a couple of pages taken from Seth… https://t.co/CqNOwYoWoR— Tony Ortega (@Tony Ortega) 1620762939.0
@TonyOrtega94 In 2005, when I was selling Dianetics books to the public, I was asked to keep track of all Tom Cruis… https://t.co/n3dY8u9DAj— KH2N (@KH2N) 1620828715.0
@TonyOrtega94 Claiming that a Big Pharma conspiracy is trying to make you sound insane, sounds insane. Clearly tha… https://t.co/3EF7kafOrJ— Interesting times (@Interesting times) 1620771436.0
@TonyOrtega94 Is... is he saying he was on psych drugs at the time? I think his friend Dave might have some views on that!— ChrisO (@ChrisO) 1620763068.0
Rogen then said he was intrigued, against his better judgment, but Judd Apatow stepped in to cut Cruise off.
"I'm generally a weak-willed, weak-minded person," Rogen said.
"If they got him, what chance do I got? Thank god Judd was like, 'Ah, I think we're good. Let's just talk about movies.' Oof, dodged that bullet."
@TonyOrtega94 @yashar Tom Cruise makes Tom Cruise look insane. Tom "giving back his golden globes due to HFP ethic… https://t.co/9GgAnmq03O— Just A Girl (@Just A Girl) 1620771053.0
@TonyOrtega94 Tom Cruise does enough to make himself look whacko— Nikki Simi (@Nikki Simi) 1620801156.0
@TonyOrtega94 @yashar He doesn’t need big pharma to do that— Sam Thomas 💙 (@Sam Thomas 💙) 1620768975.0
@TonyOrtega94 He is insane so there’s that🤷♀️— Nancy Q (@Nancy Q) 1620768791.0
This isn't the first collaborator Cruise has tried to turn to Scientology.
His Mission Impossible: 2 co-star Thandie Newton said Cruise sent her a pro-Scientology book and that she briefly considered poking around.
"I was curious, because it's like, 'Wow, if it's going to attract people, powerful, high-profile people, there's got to be some glue that sticks this sh*t together,'" she said.
"Didn't find any."
@TonyOrtega94 @yashar Make him look insane? https://t.co/Kwouaddg1H— John Mongo Tooz (@John Mongo Tooz) 1620767732.0
@TonyOrtega94 Dianetics makes strange bedfellows--Tom Cruise and Farrakhan & the NOI— Jason (@Jason) 1620763314.0
@TonyOrtega94 Well I guess Big Pharma succeeded.— Terry Fuson (@Terry Fuson) 1620779211.0
@TonyOrtega94 If the shoe fits....— Erin Darling (@Erin Darling) 1620771398.0
@TonyOrtega94 https://t.co/9iyrUsHrAs— lazyone (@lazyone) 1620773301.0
Let us all be thankful for the Judd Apatows in our lives.
We may have had a slow descent into a pyramid scheme without their level-headed presence.