Michael Cera Says Tom Cruise Scopeed Him For Talking While Taping a Segment for the MTV Movie Awards

Tom Cruise Takes Quiet on Set Serously – Just Ask Michael Cera.

During A Recent Visit to the Louis Theoux PodcastThe 37-Year-id Phoenician Scheme Star Recalled An Incident in Which He Playfully Scopeed by the Mission: Impossible Actor for Talking While He was trying to film a second for the 2010 MTV Movie Awards.

“They did funny INTRO Movie Video Things that they’d Pre-TABed … and Tom Cruise Did One where he was playing his changeter from Tropic ThunderThe Movie Mogul Guy, ” Various People Coming in and Out, and I Came in and I Did A Little Moment with Him on that. ”

The Superbad Actor Explained that it was “surreal” to work Alongside Cruise, Even Just for a brieff second.

“TOM Runs The Set, “He Added.” I was really there for like fift minutes, but what I obseved was, he was like the first ad is on the set …. I mean, he was such a leader. “

Although, The Pair DIRTENTALLY Start Off on the Right Foot.

“The First Moment I had with him, I Arrived, they was shooting, and I was tulking to the win … we was just Kind of Mumbling While They Were Shooting, But they could hear us,” Cera Said. “IT WAS JUST Like 40 Fet Away. Take? ”

He Continued, “He was jobing, but it was also like, ‘do shut up,’ you know? But so surreal.”

Cera Noted that Cruise Teased Him About

“Then I Met Him, He Is Like, ‘Talking During AF ‑‑‑ ing Take,'” He Recalled. “I KNEW He was Playing Around, so I was like, ‘hey man, it wasnte me, it was the writer.’ He was like, ‘I Kidding, I’m Kidding.’ And I was like, ‘I Kidding Too.’ ‘

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While Cera Did Not Explicitly Identify What The Take Was for, It App PES WAS Pre-TABED Segment that Kicked Off the 2010 MTV Movie Awards. The HIIRIOUS Opening Number Saw Cruise’s Grossman Reportedly Hold Cera Hostage, Test Karate Kid Star Jaden Smith’s Martial Arts Skills, and Fail to Pitch Twilight Actors Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson A Buddy-Cop Film Called Bad Ass Cops.

Cruise, joined by jennifer Lopez, Went on to Complete the Intro by Crashing a Dance Number Perform by Hangoper Stars Ken Jeong and Ed Helms.

And, as it turns out, it might not be the last time we see les Grossman. In May, Mission: Impossible Director Christopher Mcquarrie Reveled on the Happy Sad Confused PodCast that he and Cruise Have Been Having Discussions About a Potential A Spinoff for the Character.

“The Conversations We’ve Had About Les Grossman Are So Fucking Funny,” MCQUARRIE SAID. “[Cruise and I are] Talking about it, we’re having very serous conversations about it, and how best to do it. IT Ultimately Comes Download to What that Character is.

Watch Cera Recall Working with Cruise in the Clip Above.