Tom Brady Insists Massage Parlor Cameo on Netflix Series Wasn’t a Dig at Patriots Owner Robert Kraft - Sunriseread

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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is setting the file straight about a current Netflix cameo that has caught the Web’s consideration.

Brady makes a transient look within the Paul Rudd-fronted Residing With Your self, which dropped its first season on Oct. 18. Within the first episode, Rudd’s character, Miles, arrives at the High Blissful Spa, a strip mall therapeutic massage parlor the place he hopes to obtain a rejuvenating remedy (of kinds) that may enhance his life. The character is skeptical till he sees Brady stroll out of the spa, wanting refreshed.

“First time?” Brady asks Miles, who nods and asks, “You?” Brady smiles and replies, “Sixth,” referencing Brady’s variety of Tremendous Bowl wins.

The cameo, nonetheless, has been interpreted as a dig at Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft, who was charged in February with solicitation of prostitution at a strip mall day spa in Florida.

“That’s not what that was about,” Brady stated in an interview on Saturday. “I believe that was taken out of context, similar to you’re taking it out of context and making an attempt to make it a story for your self, which has a detrimental connotation to it, which I don’t admire. It was meant to be one thing totally different than that.”

Brady added that the scene in query was “shot on a inexperienced display,” not at an precise strip mall, and that it was “agreed to a 12 months in the past” and “written 4 years in the past,” lengthy earlier than Kraft’s authorized hassle. (Series creator Timothy Greenberg confirmed to Refinery29 that the scene was written earlier than the Kraft imbroglio, although he nervous Brady would again out of the looks as soon as Kraft was charged.)

“It’s unlucky that folks would select to assume I’d ever do one thing like that about Mr. Kraft,” he continued. “I believe that’s a very unhealthy evaluation of my relationship with him. I’d by no means do this… I sympathize with a lot of issues that he’s gone via in his life. I empathize with a lot of folks that get taken benefit of and get used and perceive that’s a part of what we’re dwelling in.”

The NFLer additionally criticized the “blame-and-shame media ambiance” that he believes has influenced the general public’s response to his cameo, including that “there’s a lot of issues which can be stated which can be taken out of context that you simply select to make a headline of, versus perceive[ing] what it’s really about.”