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Tom Cruise Reportedly "Juggled Bible Study And Blow J***" On The 'Risky Business' Set
By Jade Budowski Twitter @jadebudowski Jun 21, 2017 at 5:27pm 1317 Shares
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Talk about risky business. Before he was the world's biggest movie star and the frontman for Scientology, Tom Cruise apparently spent his days on the Risky Business set turning down happy hour for "Bible reading" and getting bjs from a long line of admirers instead. That's right. The squeaky-clean, goody two-shoes teen that Cruise plays at the start of the flick was a lot closer to the image Cruise aimed to emulate at the start of his career, but according to co-star Curtis Armstrong's memoir, this couldn't be further from the truth.
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Cruise apparently made "straight arrows look like corkscrews" when they weren't shooting, and Armstrong would ask him to come out for drinks when they'd wrap each day, but Cruise would politely refuse. "Got an early call tomorrow. Got to work out still, study my lines. And then I like to read the Bible a little before bed." Cruise, who had a deeply Catholic upbringing, was seemingly very committed to his religion before he found L. Ron Hubbard's way of life, but Armstrong claims that this was just a front.
"Returning late one night, I found three or four young girls — late teens, I suspect — lined up in the hall outside of Tom's room. I remember thinking, "Tom's going to be really upset if these hot girls interfere with his Bible reading." So I asked them, with all the stern gravitas of my 28 years, if there was something I could do to help them," Armstrong writes. "They just stared at me, and at that moment, Tom's door opened and another girl came out, adjusting her hair and taking off down the hall, while the first girl in line slipped into Tom's room." Armstrong laughs at his naivety now, marveling at the impressiveness at it all.
"This was a young man who knew something about time management and understood how to successfully juggle Bible study and blow jobs. I went to bed alone that night thinking it served me right for not being religious."
No word on Scientology's beej policy, but it's probably safe to say they're glad he didn't use Dianetics reading to cover for his on-set rendezvous.
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