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Tom Cruise rebukes film crew for breaking COVID-19 security protocols
Leaked audio reveals actor Tom Cruise yelling at the “Mission: Impossible 7” crew for breaking COVID-19 security protocols.
Associated Press, USA TODAY
Tom Cruise’s vocal eruption on the set of “Mission: Impossible 7” about a crew COVID-19 breach has served as a controversial, but vigorously effective wake-up call in a world facing pandemic fatigue amidst a second deadly wave.
“Tom Cruise is right here FYI. Sorry / Not sorry”, tweeted Josh Gad when the leaked audio became a viral topic of conversation Wednesday.
Cruise’s expletive-laden outburst, recorded and leaked from the UK’s multi-million dollar action film set, reportedly about two crew members too close together, has been criticized as clumsy the day after it was released. Tuesday by the British tabloid The Sun newspaper.
“If I see you do it again, you’ll be gone (expletive). And if anyone on this team does it, that’s it, and so do you and so do you,” Cruise, “Mission: Impossible” hands-on producer and star, the crew is heard yelling in the audio.
But the criticism has been countered by strong support for the message. Cruise, who has been photographed masked in public during the “M: I7” filming tour of Europe, has been instrumental in keeping production afloat amid the pandemic, even when “M: I7” had to shut down production. twice due to COVID. -19.
“We are the gold standard. They are out there in Hollywood making movies right now because of us,” Cruise says in the audio. “Because they believe in us and what we are doing. I talk to all the studios (expletives) at night, the insurance companies, the producers and they look at us and use us to make their movies. We are creating thousands of jobs, you (expletive) “.
Tom Cruise breaks out: On the ‘M: I7’ team for breaking the COVID-19 protocol in leaked audio full of expletives
Cruise and Paramount Studios have not commented on the audio. The resulting sequel was a talking point on “The View” on Wednesday, with Whoopi Goldberg alongside Cruise.
“Some people don’t understand why he gets so angry. I get it. That’s his movie,” Goldberg said. “And if he’s looking and he sees that you’re not doing what you’re supposed to be doing, it’s like a middle finger.”
Goldberg added: “When you see something on a set that is dangerous, since people don’t take it seriously, you shoot yourself, you go crazy. You think people would know better.”
“When They See Us” director Ava DuVernay was one of many prominent voices supporting Cruise. On twitter.
“If you have fired during the pandemic, you know the Herculean effort is to keep a project going within Covid protocols,” DuVernay wrote. “So some guy doesn’t want to use his shield? No. I’ve been there. I felt the rage.”
But DuVernay also suggested that Cruise get a spiel pass as a white man. “If I did that on set, I would be directing icing videos for the local bakery,” he wrote.
George Clooney told Howard Stern’s SiriusXM on Wednesday that Cruise “didn’t overreact, because it’s a problem,” according to interview exceptions on E! News.
“I have a friend who is (an assistant director) on another television show to whom almost the exact same thing happened without such a distant response,” Clooney said.
The director and star of Netflix’s “The Midnight Sky” said he would have handled the incident differently.
“He wouldn’t have made it that big. He wouldn’t have gotten people out,” Clooney said. “You’re in a position of power and it’s complicated, right? You have a responsibility for everyone else and he’s absolutely right about that. And if production fails, a lot of people lose their jobs. People have to understand that and I have Than to be responsible. It’s not my style to make everyone go to work that way. “
The incident has had an impact in the real world and beyond the industry. In an article on Slate.com, titled “I Grudgingly Admit Tom Cruise is Right,” writer Shannon Palus called the explosion “disturbing, most obviously because he is a rich and powerful man who shouts curses at the people who work for him. “.
But Palus pointed out that Cruise was right in making it clear that movie production, and the entire industry, depends on people following clear security protocols. Additionally, Cruise’s words validated the anger that many people feel in their daily lives for others who flaunt safety precautions, such as wearing masks, that put communities in danger and make the pandemic worse. “It is useful to hear the rage on full screen, rather than carefully hidden, where many of us keep it,” wrote Palus.
Others who agree include author Amy Vanderpool, who tweeted the cruise audio calling it “pretty cool”.
“If the president had taken this pandemic half as seriously as (Cruise), many more people would still be alive,” he wrote.
Podcaster Eric Wasps tweeted, “Tom Cruise is right and the angry / disappointed dad energy in that leaked audio is on point.”
Others, as a Twitter user @OliveJRowe, he disagreed with the eulogy, writing: “Clearly all these Tom Cruise advocates have never worked in a toxic environment under a selfish, screaming man.”
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