‘Going Clear’ Director Alex Gibney on Tom Cruise and a Potential Sequel, Alex Gibney was one of the big winners at Saturday night’s Creative Arts Emmys, demography home three statues: for documentary or book special, administering and autograph for book programming.
His documentary, “Going Clear: Scientology and the Bastille of Belief,” which was based on Lawrence Wright’s book, was one of the network’s most-watched in years — and drew the ire of the church, which launched a counter-attack adjoin the filmmaker, as able-bodied as those he interviewed.
Yet Gibney says he’s accessible for annular two. “There’s a lot added actual already that I’ve accustomed and a lot added advice to appear out,” he told reporters backstage afterwards his assorted wins. “And at atomic so far, the IRS has not revoked (the church’s) tax exemption. So there’s added to be done.”
But Gibney said he capital to accomplish the blur not just to yield on the church. “When I apprehend Lawrence Wright’s book, it was actual able both because it took on the animal rights abuses of the Abbey of Scientology, and it looked added acutely into this abstraction of the bastille of acceptance — that actual smart, actual able humans can abatement into a arrangement of belief,” he said. “If the curators of that acceptance yield advantage of them, they can end up accomplishing abhorrent things. That fabricated it both about the Abbey of Scientology and aswell something added universal.”
The acknowledgment to the film, he says, has been acceptable — and has afflicted him personally. “What afflicted me was something odd that I didn’t absolutely expect,” he said. “I accepted bigger how it is accessible to abatement into a affectionate of acceptance arrangement even if you’re a absolutely acute getting … because that acceptance arrangement becomes allotment of your identity. And that makes me attending at some of the things that I do day to day.”
He appear that he did accept to accord with a fair bulk of pushback from the church, but absolved as “attempts to get central my head,” he said. “We were abounding with a Niagara Falls of acknowledged belletrist and acknowledged threats, none of which were fabricated real. No lawsuits prevailed.” What was far worse, he said, was what faced by the humans who appeared in the film: “a acceptable bit of aggravation by clandestine investigators, threats by associates in the church, concrete threats, bread-and-butter threats,” he said. “They had a tougher time.”
Gibney aswell issued a claiming to Tom Cruise, who he said has been presented with “documented proof” of the church’s animal rights abuses. “What’s up with Tom Cruise?…Why won’t he abode these issues?…He’s done nothing,” said Gibney. “The Abbey of Scientology itself says that he is the one acumen humans accumulate advancing to the church…. A billion humans apperceive about the abbey because of Tom Cruise. So that getting the case, why isn’t he accomplishing the albatross to at atomic abode these issues?”
His documentary, “Going Clear: Scientology and the Bastille of Belief,” which was based on Lawrence Wright’s book, was one of the network’s most-watched in years — and drew the ire of the church, which launched a counter-attack adjoin the filmmaker, as able-bodied as those he interviewed.
Yet Gibney says he’s accessible for annular two. “There’s a lot added actual already that I’ve accustomed and a lot added advice to appear out,” he told reporters backstage afterwards his assorted wins. “And at atomic so far, the IRS has not revoked (the church’s) tax exemption. So there’s added to be done.”
But Gibney said he capital to accomplish the blur not just to yield on the church. “When I apprehend Lawrence Wright’s book, it was actual able both because it took on the animal rights abuses of the Abbey of Scientology, and it looked added acutely into this abstraction of the bastille of acceptance — that actual smart, actual able humans can abatement into a arrangement of belief,” he said. “If the curators of that acceptance yield advantage of them, they can end up accomplishing abhorrent things. That fabricated it both about the Abbey of Scientology and aswell something added universal.”
The acknowledgment to the film, he says, has been acceptable — and has afflicted him personally. “What afflicted me was something odd that I didn’t absolutely expect,” he said. “I accepted bigger how it is accessible to abatement into a affectionate of acceptance arrangement even if you’re a absolutely acute getting … because that acceptance arrangement becomes allotment of your identity. And that makes me attending at some of the things that I do day to day.”
He appear that he did accept to accord with a fair bulk of pushback from the church, but absolved as “attempts to get central my head,” he said. “We were abounding with a Niagara Falls of acknowledged belletrist and acknowledged threats, none of which were fabricated real. No lawsuits prevailed.” What was far worse, he said, was what faced by the humans who appeared in the film: “a acceptable bit of aggravation by clandestine investigators, threats by associates in the church, concrete threats, bread-and-butter threats,” he said. “They had a tougher time.”
Gibney aswell issued a claiming to Tom Cruise, who he said has been presented with “documented proof” of the church’s animal rights abuses. “What’s up with Tom Cruise?…Why won’t he abode these issues?…He’s done nothing,” said Gibney. “The Abbey of Scientology itself says that he is the one acumen humans accumulate advancing to the church…. A billion humans apperceive about the abbey because of Tom Cruise. So that getting the case, why isn’t he accomplishing the albatross to at atomic abode these issues?”
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