Tom Cruise insists that he didn't wear a 'fake butt' in Valkyrie, it was 100% Cruise cheeks
'I do my own mooning in films'
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Your support makes all the difference.Of all the question marks hanging over Tom Cruise personally and professionally, none are as big as this: did he wear a prosthetic butt for one shot in 2008 historical thriller, Valkyrie?
The mere possibility attracted 17,000 retweets, the idea of such a juicy double being too much for Twitter to comprehend.
Allow the appropriately named @ILoveButts237 to recap:
This week we got answers, thanks to a reporter at ScreenRant who had the guts to ask Cruise about it.
So was it down to padding for a soft landing? An abandoned, posterior-based sub-plot?
No, it was all Cruise.
The actor was unaware of the tweet's vitality but confirmed: "There was no prosthetic in Valkyrie. No."
It's been a big month for Tom Cruise's butt, which also features heavily in American Made due to his character Barry Seal routinely mooning his family when departing for a dangerous mission.
Cruise clarified these shots for us too: "It’s me. It’s not CGI, it’s me. I do my own mooning in films. So let it be known – I do my own mooning."
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