Tom Cruise told me “Stop being a faggot” on set

UPDATE 12/13/22 11:00 AM ET

Blunt clarified that Cruise’s comments did not offend her, as she “shared the story in the same nonchalant way that Tom meant it.”

“I absolutely adore Tom, he is a dear friend of mine and he was a real gem to me,” she said. E! News in a statement. “It was said in jest to make me laugh, which happened in a big way. And we still laugh about it.”

The original story is below:

Emily isn’t the only Blunt! Quiet place the actress recalled Tom Cruiseallegedly impermissible directive to her on the set of a 2014 action movie Edge of Tomorrow.

“It was my first foray into action and, as Tom said, rather hesitantly, when we started it, he said, ‘For me, this is the end of the action,'” Blunt, 39, said in an episode of “SmartLess.” podcast, which was released on Monday, December 12th. “And I thought, ‘If you say that, then we have a problem.

The artist explained to the co-host Will Arnett, Sean Hayes as well as Jason Bateman that they “had to wear these really huge robotic suits” that weighed “about 85 pounds”.

“It was so heavy that when I first put it on, I just burst into tears. I just started crying in front of Tom. He just looked at me and said, “I know, I know,” Blunt recalled, mimicking her own growl. “And I thought, ‘Tom, I don’t know how I’m going to get through this shoot,’ and I started crying. I thought, “I’m just a little panicking about all this filming.”

However, the 60-year-old Mission: Impossible actor needed his co-star to pull himself together. “He’s literally walking – he’s staring at me for a long time, not knowing what to do – and he’s like, ‘Come on, stop being so up-y, okay?'” Blunt laughed, adding that Cruz’s advice allowed them to get “through it.” “

However, how The Devil Wears Prada the actress recalled in a 2020 interview with Conan O’Brienthere was a moment on the set when she “almost killed” Best shooter star while driving a car during a particularly tense action sequence.

“I rip that part off and Tom is very quiet behind me, I can hear him whispering as I approach the right turn, saying, ‘Brake, brake, brake. Brake. Brake, brake, brake… Oh God. Brake, brake, brake. Brake hard! Brake harder!” the British actress shared at the time, adding: “I left him too late and therefore drove us into a tree… I almost killed Tom Cruise.”

In addition to her Edge of Tomorrow anecdotes, Blunt didn’t quite subtly discuss her thoughts on Cruise’s career in the years before they made the 2014 film.

In an interview in 2005 Telegraph, Jungle Cruise The actress said that it would be better to be a poor actress than to work as a “spearman in a Tom Cruise movie.”

Nine years later, doing press for Edge of TomorrowBlunt was forced to counter her past comments by speaking to the same channel. Though at first she didn’t believe she had ever made the remark, “I never said that! What a terrible thing to say,” she insisted at the time – she eventually had to relent when she was shown the exact interview.

“That’s so funny,” she laughed, “well, at least I’m not a spearman.”