Jason Beghe 'unravels' Scientology • ©2008 The Village Voice
“I’m probably not going to be doing any movies for United Artists any time soon” – Beghe (referring to the Cruise-owned studio) In April 2008, actor Jason Beghe (Everwood, Jag, Numb3rs, CSI, Cane) unraveled Scientology, a religion in which he was a member for 14 years. In an interview with The Village Voice, he claimed to have given the church about a million (US) dollars to ‘reach the Bridge to Xenu’ and offered a surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes 411 on the Hollywood set such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta currently embedded within the group. Paraphrasing Beghe it could be said that religion is the ultimate mousetrap but still it does not work without cheese, whereas a cult is but a religion because you are the cheese. Words - Tommy Peters Source, The Village Voice. Bodie Elfman gave him a copy of What is Scientology, a lavishly illustrated hardback that introduced him to the idea that L. Ron Hubbard had come up with a...