Members of the US Navy are reportedly slamming actor Tom Cruise for alleged arrogant behavior on the set of his upcoming sequel, Top Gun: Maverick.

Tom Cruise is filming Top Gun 2 on the mighty USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), a US Nimitz class supercarrier. The crew has been ordered to not look at Tom Cruise or to talk to the arrogant actor.

Tom Cruise will make a fortune from Top Gun 2 pretending to be a US Navy officer and yet he shows no respect to for the men and women who serve aboard the Theodore Roosevelt.

This isn’t the first time Tom Cruise has received heated criticism from US Special Forces. In 2013, the actor made comments comparing his job as a professional actor to be just as, if not more intense than what troops in Afghanistan were going through.
Tom Cruise not only thinks he trains harder than Olympic athletes, he believes his job as a professional actor is as grueling as fighting the war in Afghanistan — this according to legal docs obtained by TMZ.

At the moment, no official response has been released by Tom Cruise or the production behind Top Gun: Maverick as a result of this onslaught of criticism from numerous US Navy crew members.

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Go to the link and read what the hundreds of men and women on board have to say about this jerk. I am surprised the Department of Defense allowed him on the ship or on US Bases after saying that his job as an actor is more intense then a US Soldier in combat in Afghanistan which he actually got slammed by the United States Special Operations Command.

I also remember when he filmed the original Top Gun that he was such a jerk and Val Kilmer put him on the ground off camera with one punch.

If I were the captain of the ship he would have been removed from the vessel.

IN all fairness, when Top Gun was filmed he was 24. Im sure there are plenty of actual service members that age who were 'put on the ground' for their behaviors as well.

And orders are part of the job of the military. I'm surprise any would feel 'disrespected' by receiving orders. Maybe they were expected to continue doing their jobs while the shoot occurs ... who knows?

While I appreciate people in uniform, I dont necessarily believe they need to receive kid glove treatment and be worshipped with Idol Like treatment. I think they are big boys and girls. They can handle themselves. And like civilians, there is a difference between customary etiquette and actual 'disrespect' IMHO.

They were ordered not to look at him when he was off camera. He is a pompous a$$.

maybe, maybe not. Never really heard him speak much except about anti depressants and being in love. In any case, seems odd that a non military person would be permitted to give any orders on a military base to soldiers. But then again, I think context might be important to understand what happened.

Umm, he said in an interview a couple years ago that his job acting is more stressful and harder then our forces fighting on Afghanistan.

It's not odd. There was probably a written agreement with those orders. Top Gun in the 1980's was the best recruitment tool for the Navy and in the history of our Armed Forces. It also brought a lot of publicity. Something the Navy could desperately use right now.

I'm no defender for Tom Cruise or anyone else I don't personally know, but I've learned to be very cautious about reports that someone famous is a "jerk" or whatever.

It's VERY common for famous people to be resented, just because they ARE famous, for one thing. And for another, it's VERY common when big films are being made, using actual non-film people as significant players, for misunderstandings about processes to arise.

Although I do have the general impression that Tom Cruise is "not like you and me" in many ways, based on the MANY news stories surrounding his religious affiliations and associated behaviors, I wont assume that these reports are accurate until more information comes out.

Especially the idea that all the people on the ship were told "not to look at him."

If someone is making a film about how this character is on a ship, and isn't a movie star in the story, it's very logical to tell the EXTRAS on the set, not to stare at the character as though he's a famous film actor, while he's playing a guy who they've already known for years (in the story).

So this COULD well be another example of how someone's previous "odd" reputation is acting like a catalyst to inflame current misunderstandings and activities and resentments, into being a horrifying scandal, that really shouldn't exist.

We'll see. Maybe.

Guess it all depends where you get your stories from .. Many times things are twisted too sell and then others run with it..

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/tom-cruise-top-gun-sequel-uss-theodore-roosevelt-reported-tensions-505966161.html


"A Navy master chief told NBC 7 servicemembers were directed to "respect" Cruise and his crew during the movie's filming and that he doesn't believe this was an issue."

"He also said the Navy "does not tolerate any disrespect to its members" and the Navy "wouldn't allow" Cruise to treat staff poorly.

Navy escorts who accompanied Cruise during the shoot said, "At no time did Tom Cruise say to a sailor, 'Do not look at me. Do not touch me.'”

"The allegations that Cruise mistreated servicemembers started on Reddit and were shared on an anti-Scientology website, the Scientology Money Project. Posts on social media, such as Twitter, also have servicemembers alleging other incidents with the actor."