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The London premiere of Steven Spielberg's 'War of the Worlds' turned into a war of words after Tom Cruise was squirted in the face by a man posing as a reporter.
The 42-year-old actor was outside a movie theater in central London's Leicester Square doing press interviews Sunday when a man squirted Cruise with a water pistol disguised as a microphone, London's Metropolitan Police said.
Cruise appeared to laugh but then asked the prankster: 'Why would you do that?'
As the man gave a barely audible excuse, Cruise said: 'Do you like thinking less of people, is that it?' The prankster tried to walk away but Cruise reached across the metal barrier, held his arm and said: 'Don't run away. That's incredibly rude. I'm here giving you an interview and you do that ... it's incredibly rude.'
The actor grew increasingly irritated and told the man: 'You're a jerk.'
Police detained the man who squirted Cruise and also arrested three other men who filmed the incident. The four were working on a new comedy show for British TV station Channel 4 in which celebrities are the targets of practical jokes."

Does anyone else think this is just dumb? Aren't these people just overreacting? It was just a simple joke, get over it. I wonder if Cruise got Punk'd by Ashton in the same way if he would freak out like he did? I doubt it cause Ashton is famous too. It's sometimes like famous people just live in this bubble, they can do things to each other and say things to each other and nobody bats an eye. But if we (we being the common folk, the peasants) do or say the same things to a famous person we're "bad people" or we're jerks. I don't get it, but then again I'm probably just Jealous (that's right, with a big 'j').