Tom Cruise's Couch-Jumping Justification: 'It Was A Moment'
Posted by Seth at 7:40 AM on May 3, 2008
Seeing a plum opening right off the bat, Winfrey notes the two are seated on precisely the kind of cushy, upholstered furniture that launched her interview subject into the Harpo Studios rafters three years ago. She goes on to frankly admit, "I was a little nervous, since you and I haven't had not sat down for a real conversation since [scare quotes] 'the sofa' incident...I was like, 'Wow'...what was that?" Wow indeed. Cruise goes on to justify the love-powered trampolining as "a moment...I just felt that way." Like any frightened, woodland critter reared into a corner a mountainside hunting lodge, however, Cruise eventually struck back: "You were egging me on! You were egging me on. You were egging me on! You were egging me on, too," he repeated, vengefully. [Oprah.com]
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Terryeo
Posted May 4, 2008 5:24 PM
"Repeated, vengefully? What kind of world do you live in?
DexterRiley
Posted 8:41 AM 3/5/08
@Guy-Fawkes:
Yes, there is:
John Travolta and Kirstie Alley and Anne Archer and Beck and Karen Black and Nancy Cartwright and Jeff Conaway and Jenna Elfman and Doug E. Fresh and Paul Haggis and Isaac Hayes and Katie Holmes and Jason Lee and Juliette Lewis and Christopher and Danny Masterson and Judy Norton and Lisa Marie Presley and Priscilla Presley and Kelly Preston and Leah Remini and Greta Van Susteren (yeah, that bitch is one, too).
DexterRiley
Guy-Fawkes
Posted 8:16 AM 3/5/08
Is there anything less useful on Planet Earth than Tom Cruise? Even plastic bags will eventually biodegrade, but he just goes on, expressing the opinions he's been told to have by Scientology cult leaders, and pretending he is able to form a complete thought without coaching.
Guy-Fawkes
MaxPatkin
Posted 9:14 AM 3/5/08
"Remember, I'm the guy who danced in my underwear." We thought that was a role in a movie. Hope he didn't add "Remember, Oprah, I'm the guy who kidnapped my retard brother."
MaxPatkin
Miss Anne Thrope
Posted 9:11 AM 3/5/08
@hughman: Totally generic "lodge". And such low ceilings!
Miss Anne Thrope
sisedi
Posted 9:07 AM 3/5/08
I haven't seen her in a while, she's looking horrible.
sisedi
pureblarney
Posted 9:04 AM 3/5/08
Is there a complete version of the interview somewhere (maybe YouTube)? He's so robotic... I need to see more.
pureblarney
hughman
Posted 8:56 AM 3/5/08
on a side note, how dreary is that house? it's like the lobby of a Hyatt in Aspen.
hughman
Fama Est
Posted 9:29 AM 3/5/08
He's really blushing. I'd have thought LRH would have written instructions on how to avoid feelings of embarrassment during interviews with Earthlings.
Fama Est
deadre
Posted 9:28 AM 3/5/08
boring.........less is more when it comes to this guy and shame on Oprah.
deadre
TurdBlossom
Posted 10:58 AM 3/5/08
Egging him on looked like laughing nervously and wishing she could yell "cut" without causing an incident.
TurdBlossom
WGARefugee
Posted 10:53 AM 3/5/08
@FlangeSqueal: If I had to draw a line anywhere between good clean defamer fun and not so fun, I would draw it at little tykes who are not public figures by choice, like Suri or Jayden James. When say a Rumer Willis or a Brooke Hogan voluntarily crosses that line, then it's open season, baby.
WGARefugee
Benny
Posted 10:34 AM 3/5/08
That was ridiculous. Tom's right. Oprah was egging him on. Watching her try to distance herself from that incident and what it represents made me like her even less than I already do. And even though he's a dangerous propagandist for an anti medical cult, it actually made me like Cruise a tiiiiny bit more. Shame on you Oprah. You have zero credibility. Tom at least has his derangement and mania to hide behind. You're just a calculating, cowardly hypocrite. A self interested non entity, who succeeds commercially exactly because she is middle of the road and mediocre and safe. You set the standard for people who have none.
Benny
FlangeSqueal
Posted 10:20 AM 3/5/08
What a sad, pathetic ending to a career that could have been something had it not been tainted by the 'star's' predilection to whore himself off to the cult of $cientology.
Teeny Tom, still dyslexic and unable to read his scripts to this very day, laughably brings up his 25-year-old premier movie as if it is in the same class as "War and Peace."
He exhibits the same demented, misguided LRH-inspired (no - LRH-INSTRUCTED) commands to repeat, repeat, repeat the $cientology-line in defense against the TRUTH...even tho his Messiah has been dead and gone and forgotten since 1986.
Anyone else notice "Valkyrie" has been shunted off into oblivia ?
Teeny Tom's ruse is at an end.
I sure hope Katie can escape.
Forget Soorie - she's a little shovel-faced Korean adoptee that is bound to go back to Pyong-Yang for re-settlement anyway.
FlangeSqueal
parkslump
Posted 10:13 AM 3/5/08
He's so artificial, I bet the snow outside isn't even real.
parkslump
Smirk
Posted 9:54 AM 3/5/08
Wow, he just looks so unhappy. If you watch his face between the plastered-on smiles, he's just looking lonely and desperate. I almost feel sorry for him, but not.
Smirk
MayhemintheHood
Posted 9:48 AM 3/5/08
I hate the fact that Tom Cruise is one of my favorite actors. I can't help it, his batting average for being in good movies is too damn high. Therefore I had to totally seperate the movies he does from the man himself, but that's getting harder and harder.
MayhemintheHood
MissCast
Posted 9:42 AM 3/5/08
Interesting how he turns it around and blames her for "egging him on".
MissCast
StevieRayHalen
Posted 5:11 PM 3/5/08
he is so gay.
StevieRayHalen
Jamo
Posted 3:13 AM 4/5/08
@Guy-Fawkes: Piers, you on a roll today! From an Indian oil titan and his homeless-shunning $2 billion home over on Gizmodo to Tom Cruise's inane verbal forays here on Defamer. Guy-Fawkes will eviscerate the subject of every blog post he deems substandard.
Jamo
Jamo
Posted 3:15 AM 4/5/08
@Jamo: Rather, yesterday.
Jamo
bonniegrrl
Posted 1:54 PM 4/5/08
I'm probably in the minority here, but I thought he gave a decent interview. If anything, the Big O seemed to be stilted.
bonniegrrl
NotReadyForPrimeTime
Posted 5:03 AM 5/5/08
I'd like to see Tom Cruise take responsibility for something, instead of giving lame justifications.
He came across more phony and creepy than ever. When he says "it came out wrong," what he really means is that he feels the same way, but is trying to back-pedal to regain his popularity.
NotReadyForPrimeTime