Did Tom Cruise fill out his backside with a fake bootay? Aptly-named Twitter user @iluvbutts247 recently rewatched Cruise’s 2008 WWII thriller “Valkyrie” and noticed that his butt in one particular scene — literally all five seconds of it — looked larger than it did throughout the rest of the movie.
https://twitter.com/iluvbutts247/status/899407790795403264
The internet was soon awash with speculation about Tom Cruise’s Kardashian-sized butt.
https://twitter.com/syazwinasaw/status/899508234993623041
https://twitter.com/TuckerTeague/status/899430060590903296
https://twitter.com/Nodrom/status/899569823360970753
Online butt connoisseurs have also pointed out that since Tom Cruise does his own stunts, this was probably some sort of protective butt pad. This makes sense — a lot of action movie sequences use fake butts — except we’re not sure how that would work out in this particular instance since Cruise is falling on his face.
…I have had the same theory about a single shot of Tobey Maguire in SPIDER-MAN for some time. pic.twitter.com/A99EDV8gfW
— Kris Pigna (@KrisPigna) August 21, 2017
Valkyrie director Christopher McQuarrie responded in a now-deleted tweet: “At 12k retweets and climbing, why would I ever add clarity to this thread? #Valkyrie.”
What do you think? Is Tom Cruise’s butt fake or has he just been doing tons of squats in the gym?
