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Must-see video: Eric Bana parodies Tom Cruise...

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,bana.jpgI love when Eric Bana has a new movie coming because that means I get to see his handsome face as he does a buncha publicity. Next up for him is "The Other Boleyn Girl" and he did an interview or the March issue of GQ magazine. He talks about the movie and yada yada yada but the most interesting part is when he talks about his work on "Full Frontal," an Australian sketch show.

Here's the trext from that part of the story: "Bana also does two excellent celebrity impressions, of Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and in some of his funniest work separately interviews them in the guise of a third character, a real-life Aussie TV personality named Ray Martin. In the most provocative sketch of the entire series, Bana-as-Cruise chokes up while discussing his love for his kids, at which Bana-as-Martin comfortingly clasps the star’s hands. Startled, Cruise gazes at Martin. Then both men lean forward into a passionate kiss. 'I’m sure Tom hasn’t seen it,' Bana says uneasily when I bring up the sketch. He downplays what the sketch suggests about Cruise’s sexuality. Ray Martin, he says, is a notorious sycophant, and 'I wanted to get to the side of him being so in love with the person he’s interviewing that he wants to pash them.' Maybe so, but I think Bana’s being a bit disingenuous here. Watch the sketch for yourself on YouTube and tell me it’s not Cruise who initiates the pash."

Here is a clip of the sketch:


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Greg Hernandez

Greg Hernandez has covered the entertainment industry for the Daily News since 2001. He's considered a bit odd by some for his obsession with box office numbers, has been known to camp out near the kitchen at premieres for first crack at the hors d'oeurves, and Greg's never seen a red carpet he didn't want to stroll down.
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