Bacall attacks Tom Cruise

2008-10-08 21:16

Los Angeles - US actress Lauren Bacall has branded Tom Cruise a "maniac".

Screen legend Bacall worked with Cruise's ex-wife Nicole Kidman on 2003 film Dogville, soon after her divorce from the Mission: Impossible actor, and says she appeared "unhappy" during filming, before launching an astonishing and scathing attack on Cruise.

"Tom had taken off for Penelope Cruz or some goddamn thing - one of his more ridiculous moves. Tom Cruise is a maniac. I can't understand the way he conducts his life," Bacall told Elle magazine.

This is not the first time The Big Sleep actress has hit out at Cruise.

"When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise," Bacall said in 2005.

Shocking

"His whole behaviour is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but, I think, it's kind of a sickness."

Kidman recently revealed she was surprised to find love with new husband, country singer Keith Urban, after her 10-year marriage to Cruise.

"I didn't foresee it, that you can meet somebody who you have a deep and more profound love with. I don't mean to take away anything with Tom, but I would hope that he has the same thing," she said.

Kidman gave birth to her first daughter with Urban, Sunday Rose Kidman, in July. She and Cruise adopted two children, Isabella, 15, and Connor, 13, during their marriage. - Bang Showbiz.com

- Bang