Tom Cruise’s butt has gone viral. No, it has nothing to do with nudity or any kind of photo hack. Rather, it revolves around a scene in his 2008 film Valkyrie.
hello, please, i present the theory that for one single shot in Valkyrie (2008), at 5:12, tom cruise wears a fake butt. observe: pic.twitter.com/Tw6yTbsQUe
โ swizz keats (@iluvbutts247) August 20, 2017
Twitter user Swizz Keats, tweeted about the photo and presented his conspiracy theory “that for one single shot in Valkyrie (2008), at 5:12, tom cruise wears a fake butt,” as initially shared by Fox News.
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Many users immediately jumped in to share their thoughts. One person said, “That butt looks too fake to be anybody’s.” Another quipped, “That is a badonkadonk double sir.”
A lot of people simply could not believe the size of the speculated “fake butt,” as one follower wrote, “Hahahhah so ridiculous. I wonder if that really is a fake ass. It looks plump as hell.”
For the most part, people seemed to overwhelmingly agree that this is a “stunt butt,” but in an interesting turn, one of the film’s writers and producers, Christopher McQuarrie, actually chimed in briefly.
In now-deleted tweets, McQuarrie said, “At 12k retweets and climbing, why would I ever add clarity to this thread?”
Finally, the original poster of the tweet shared some additional insight.
“just fyii’m aware it’s a padded stunt-butt. i do not care. it is still beautiful and hilarious,” Keats wrote, adding, “he [Cruise] does his own stunts, people wear ass pads all the time, but it’s the SHEER EXTREMITY of the rump’s robustness that jacks this up.”
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