Seth Rogen was tempted to join Scientology while pitching a movie with Judd Apatow to Tom Cruise

He’s had his fair share of interesting events as a world famous actor and writer.

But Seth Rogen never forgot being tempted to join Scientology while pitching a movie with Judd Apatow to Tom Cruise.

The 39-year-old actor wrote about meeting the Mission Impossible star in his new collection of essays, Yearbook, and recalled the day while chatting on The Howard Stern Show.

While noting that Tom had ‘looked weird’ in press recently, Cruise used that time to try and recruit the duo.

‘A few hours into the meeting, the Scientology stuff comes up,’ Seth noted. ‘He said, “I think the pharmaceutical industry is making me look bad.” He said, “You should see what they do to my friend Louis Farrakhan.”

Cruise then pitched the guys on joining the religious cult, which has a heavy celebrity following including John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Beck, Beck, Juliette Lewis and Danny Masterson. 

‘I’ll never forget the wording he used,’ he said. “‘It’s like with Scientology … If you let me just tell you what it was really about… just give me like 20 minutes to, like, really just tell you what it was about, you would say, “No f***ing way. No f***ing way.”‘ 

He added, ‘The wording, I was like, “Is that a good thing to be saying?”‘  

The Pineapple Express star said, ‘And I’m like, ‘Is he gonna bite? Am I gonna bite? Can we come out of this? Are we strong enough to have him do this to us and not be converted? I don’t know if I am. I’m generally a weak-willed, weak-minded person. I would assume on the grand scale of people, if they got [Tom], what chance do I have?’

‘Thank god Judd was like, “Eh, I think we’re good. Let’s just talk about movies and stuff,”‘ Seth added. ‘Oof, dodged that bullet.

‘If I was there alone, I would be singing a very different tune right now.’ 

Seth and Judd have worked together on a number of projects after Freaks and Geeks, including Apatow’s directorial debut, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and followed up by Knocked Up and Funny People.