Apparently, auditioning is not only for the big screen. According to Vanity Fair, The Church of Scientology, had a “top-secret process” for auditioning actresses to play Tom Cruise’s real-life girlfriend. Of course Cruise’s reps have denied this, but this would not be the first time Tom has done something out of the ordinary. Click below to read more.
In the October issue of Vanity Fair, special correspondent Maureen Orth, reported that Nazanin Boniadi was selected from a group of Scientologist actresses to play the role of Tom Cruise’s girlfriend. The actresses were reportedly told they were auditioning for a training film, and asked “What do you think of Tom Cruise?”
Orth, who interviewed “several sources,” claims that the entire arrangement was headed by Shelly Miscavige, the wife of Scientology chief David Miscavige.
A rep for Cruise told ABC News in a statement, “Lies in a different font are still lies – designed to sell magazines.” The Church of Scientology denied to the magazine that there was any such recruiting project and did not respond to ABC News’ request for a statement.
Vanity Fair reports that “in a month-long preparation,” Boniadi was “told to lose her braces, her red highlights and her boyfriend.” The Iranian-born, London-raised actress even reportedly signed a confidentiality agreement and was told if she “messed up” she would be declared an enemy of Scientology, the magazine wrote.
Boniadi and Cruise first met in November 2004, according to the article. Boniadi, the magazine claims, “first sensed that this was possibly going to be an arranged marriage” and although they spent that first night together “they did not have sex.”
The relationship ended in January 2005, the magazine reported, just three months before Cruise appeared in public with Katie Holmes. The article claims that Cruise wanted “someone with her own power, like Nicole Kidman.”
Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise earlier this year after six years of marriage. The couple has a 6-year-old daughter named Suri. Holmes did not become a Scientologist until she started dating Cruise, and a rep for Holmes told ABC News the Vanity Fair story was done without her participation.
