This is the moment Tom Cruise blew up at workers for breaking COVID-19 rules on the set of his new movie — unleashing a profanity-laced rant that his Hollywood heavy-hitter friends rushed to defend Wednesday.
The furious 58-year-old can be heard erupting into a more than three-minute-long, F-word-filled diatribe while filming “Mission: Impossible 7” at Warner Bros. Studios in Hertfordshire, UK.
“They’re back there in Hollywood making movies right now because of us. We are creating thousands of jobs, you motherf—ers,” he yells in the leaked audio clip from Britain’s the Sun.
“I don’t ever want to see it again! Ever!,” he continues.
Cruise then warns: “If I see you do it again, you’re f—ing gone.”
“And if anyone on this crew does it, that’s it — and you too and you too. And you, don’t you ever f—ing do it again.”
The “Top Gun” star was apparently set off by seeing two crew members standing less than 6 feet apart at a computer, according to the Sun.
Cruise is said to have been policing the set to ensure that filming can continue amid the pandemic after several COVID-related delays.
He even paid $676,000 for an old cruise ship for the cast and crew to isolate on, the Sun said.
“We are not shutting this f—ing movie down! Is it understood?,” he screams in the clip.
He also told the crew that he was done with apologies.
“You can tell it to the people that are losing their f—ing homes because our industry is shut down. It’s not going to put food on their table or pay for their college education,” Cruise can be heard saying.
“That’s what I sleep with every night. The future of this f—ing industry! So I’m sorry, I am beyond your apologies.”
“If I see it again, you’re f—ing gone,” he repeats. “And you are — so you’re going to cost him his job, if I see it on the set, you’re gone and you’re gone.”
“That’s it. Am I clear?”
The R-rated outburst was backed by other film legends, including Whoopi Goldberg and George Clooney, on Wednesday.
“You know, some people don’t understand why he would get so angry,” Goldberg said on “The View,” adding, “I get it.”
In an interview with Howard Stern, Clooney said Cruise “didn’t overreact because it is a problem.”
“I understand why he did it. He’s not wrong at all about that,” Clooney said.