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"Tom Cruise has been very vocal about his support for the Church of Scientology. Sometimes too vocal, according to his former publicist Pat Kingsley. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 81-year-old PR legend says she once advised the Oblivion actor to tone down his talk about his religious beliefs.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I did have that conversation with Tom, about cooling it,&amp;quot; Kingsley says, recalling what she told him at the time: &amp;quot;&amp;apos;Scientology is fine. You want to do a tour for Scientology? Do a tour for Scientology. But Warner Bros. is sponsoring this tour.&amp;apos; That was for [2003&amp;apos;s] The Last Samurai. He didn&amp;apos;t say yes or no, except he did not discuss Scientology on that European tour.&amp;quot;\r\nIn general, THR notes, the star&amp;apos;s religious beliefs didn&amp;apos;t have much of an impact on his professional relationship with Kingsley until shortly before they parted ways. There had been only one &amp;quot;serious conflict&amp;quot; before with the Scientology reps, &amp;quot;but it was taken care of very early in the game,&amp;quot; the veteran publicist notes.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I felt that they were involved in a story that I was doing on Tom, and I said: &amp;apos;It&amp;apos;s not your story, it&amp;apos;s Tom&amp;apos;s. You have to step aside,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; she recalls. &amp;quot;And they did.&amp;quot;\r\nKingsley, who worked with Cruise from the early 1990s until 2004, was once so close with him that they &amp;quot;could almost finish each other&amp;apos;s sentence,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;We never really had a disagreement about direction or any particular interview. The trust became pretty complete on both sides.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nShe added: &amp;quot;We talked constantly. He was an insomniac. I liked the fact that he was so much fun. And he was so thoughtful. He remembered birthdays, my daughter&amp;apos;s birthday. He came to her wedding; she was registered somewhere for the china, and he bought out everything.&amp;quot;\r\nIn the end, she tells THR, he &amp;quot;wanted to be more personally involved&amp;quot; in the decisions about his career. They went their separate ways in March 2004 and have not seen each other since. But Kingsley has only good things to say about him. &amp;quot;Tom Cruise was a prince,&amp;quot; she says."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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