{"id":38355,"date":"2013-11-09T06:12:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T11:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38355"},"modified":"2013-11-09T07:01:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T12:01:21","slug":"cruise-being-an-actor-is-just-like-serving-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38355","title":{"rendered":"Cruise: being an actor is just like serving in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been able to watch a Tom Cruise movie. No, I haven&#8217;t even seen &#8220;Top Gun&#8221;. I just can&#8217;t stand to look at the fool. The one time I did watch one all the way through was when he did that Jack Reacher movie &#8211; I never wanted to punch a movie character in the face as much a I wanted to punch Tom Cruise&#8217; Jack Reacher.<\/p>\n<p>But anyway, Scott sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/gossip\/cruise-compares-working-movie-set-serving-tour-afghanistan-report-article-1.1511177\">New York Daily News<\/a> which reports that Tom Cruise claims that his job, whatever that is, is just as tough as being a soldier in Afghanistan;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> To Tom Cruise, being away from his daughter while shooting a big-budget action movie \u201cfeels like\u201d serving in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cTop Gun\u201d actor was responding to a lawyer\u2019s question comparing the extended time away from his Suri while filming a movie to a soldier\u2019s tour in Afghanistan, according to legal papers obtained by the Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what it feels like,\u201d Cruise responded during the deposition stemming from his $50 million lawsuit accusing Life &#038; Style and In Touch magazines of defaming him in 2012 cover stories claiming he abandoned his daughter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, it must be tough having to take a private jet home every weekend and, you know, having people shoot guns at you that don&#8217;t have bullets in them. He went on to compare his chosen career to being an Olympic athlete.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:368px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:southparkstudios.com:f159c2c2-ed00-11e0-aca6-0026b9414f30\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong> Bonus <strong>NOT SAFE FOR WORK or SMALL CHILDREN<\/strong>;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oemjnzdxXp8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been able to watch a Tom Cruise movie. No, I haven&#8217;t even seen &hellip; <a title=\"Cruise: being an actor is just like serving in Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38355\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cruise: being an actor is just like serving in Afghanistan<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}