Amy Poehler Reveals How Tom Cruise Gave Her the Ick in ‘The Outsiders’
This is before your time, but there was a movie, a great movie called The Outsiders. Do you know that movie? Heard of it? Okay. So, it was like based off of a book and it was all young Rob and young um Patrick Sees and all these boys and Tom Cruz is famously in it and he’s one of the and it’s one of his first films and he’s like one of the bad guys and I remember being like he’s cool and then he does a backflip in it and I was like tapped out immediately out immediately out. I lost he lost it for me. There’s something about it that’s a bit vulnerable. I’m like, “Wait, cut that out. You’re a boy. What are you doing?” Yeah. And and look, I’ve seen you lift your leg. You are very flexible. Now, girls can be flexible. Boys shouldn’t be flexible. Boys shouldn’t be allowed to be flexible. Cut that out. Cut that out
#TomCruise may be one of the biggest movie stars ever, but #AmyPoehler is more than willing to admit that he definitely gave her the ick in one of his first films. And it’s because of one single action.
In the latest episode of her podcast “Good Hang,” Poehler sat down with singer #ReneéRapp to dig in on everything from coming out as a lesbian on “#SaturdayNightLive” to her theater roots and more. Eventually, the conversation circled around to things that the women don’t like to see men do.
For Poehler, apparently, the answer is: be flexible. Flexible men freak her out, and she really doesn’t like when they do flips for no reason (the exception being people like olympian #StephenNedoroscik, whose literal job is to do flips). One example that jumped to mind? Tom Cruise in “#TheOutsiders.”