Note: Since this blog post was published, YouTube has removed the video interview with Tom Cruise which sat atop it. However, it's still available in all its glory, here.
So Tom Cruise is upset about Andrew Morton's unauthorised biography, in which he claims that Cruise is the big no.2 of Scientology, and other scurrilous claims, and you can see that he might be wanting to refute that in many ways, suing etc. But frankly, this interview that's popped up on YouTube isn't going to help anyone much. Well, apart from Andrew Morton. In it, he's seen passionately pronouncing that when you drive past an accident as a Scientolgist, it's "not like anyone else ... you know you're the only one that can help". Take my word on this, that's one of the parts that makes the most sense - and it makes no sense at all.
"I wish the world was a different place. I'd love to go abroad and go on vacation.There are times I'd like to do that, but I can't. Because I know... I know. I have to do something about it." About WHAT? For nine and a half minutes Tom talks in acronyms and words decipherable only to a certain group of people - if this is a promotional film for viewing by members of the inner sanctum of Scientology only, which by the membership boosting boast at the end, it certainly seems to be. But for anyone else, the interview can be watched with nothing but slack-jawed awe that one man can talk such utter bobbins for so long. And believe it. And over an eight-second loop of the Mission Impossible riff that is either designed to hypnotise or cause you to lose your mind.
"We've got to get those spectators" (a phrase he's used preivously in the interview to describe non-scientologists) "either in the playing field, or OUTTA the arena".
Too late. Now that's just scary talk, Tom lad. Now you're just scary.
In the likely event of the video disappearing from YouTube, Heat's website has a partial transcript here. Though doubtless full transcripts will become available. Because this is priceless. How long can he carry on without a) actually revealing that he's an alien superleader sent to save the world or b) disappearing in a mass implosion of his own self-worth?
