Tom Cruise is a fascinating character. From jumping on the couch at Oprah to insisting on doing his own stunts, there doesn’t seem to be an annoying thing about this movie star. It comes as a big surprise, then, to hear that Tom Cruise learned about internet porn from comedy figurehead and Knocked Up director Judd Apatow and frequent collaborator Seth Rogen.
Wait a minute, where the hell had this dude been living?
The big revelation, at least from Cruise’s perspective, came after he held a meeting with Apatow and Rogen regarding a potential project. According to Apatow, he had called Rogen to accompany him to the meeting, when things got a bit weird, as he explains:
“I said to Seth Rogen, ‘I have a meeting with Tom Cruise. You have to come with me.
“And no one knew who Seth was. He wasn’t famous so he was just a dude with me and so I said, ‘Someone needs to witness this.’ So we’re talking to him, and I don’t know how it came up, but it usually comes up with Seth where he’s talking about marijuana and pornography.
“And he starts talking about watching adult films on the Internet, and Tom Cruise goes, ‘What? Wait, you’re saying there’s adult films on the Internet?’”
The fuck there is, Tom.
It actually didn’t end there. Seth offered some explanation to the “Mission: Impossible- Fallout” star, who Apatow thinks is a ‘very good man.’ He is reported to have told Cruise: ‘Yeah, there’s all these movies on these websites.’ To which the disbelieving movie star asked: ‘Wait a second. You’re saying if I go on the computer, on the World Wide Web, there are people having sex?‘
Luckily for him, Seth was there to offer some more explanation, telling him that he watches it ‘all the time’ and how great it is that ‘everybody does it. It’s not a big deal anymore‘. Seth must have been a lucky human to be the one to break the news to Mr. Gun that internet porn is indeed a real thing.
Tom Cruise must have been living under a rock or had just landed from space. To be fair, the meeting took place in 2006 which sounds like a lifetime ago. For starters, there were no iPhones, Seth Rogen wasn’t famous, and My Space was the thing back then.
Judd, on the other hand, wasn’t too sure whether Cruise was merely pulling their legs or he hadn’t actually heard about internet porn. “He was being very polite, but I think … I assume he was against it and being polite, but who knows,” he said. “We’ll never know.”
I guess we won’t.
Seth Rogen actually confirmed the incident, with the wizened sage of stoner comedy admitting: “I obviously had no recollection of that, and then when I saw [Apatow] tell it, I was like, ‘Oh, yeah! I told Tom Cruise that internet pornography exists, and he didn’t know,‘” Rogen said before adding that ‘it was crazy.’
The main agenda was to discuss a potential romantic comedy which actually never materialized. The two never got to work together, but Tom Cruise has been working on his highly anticipated movie- “Mission Impossible: Fallout“. He appeared to have put a lot of effort into the movie and didn’t stop even when he injured himself during the shoot. As earlier mentioned, he did all the stunts by himself; jumping off buildings and chasing airplanes, proving there is nothing this guy cannot do. He appears primed to continue with his daredevil stunts, and the only thing that he can’t do is watch porn which is a pity considering his ‘good friend’ told him everyone is doing it. You can watch this video and hear the whole story and figure out what’s funnier between the story and the Seth Rogan voice as impersonated by Judd Apatow.
But what was the first porn site?
Internet lovers like firsts. So, were there porn sites on the internet back in 2006 for Tom Cruise to check out? Of course, there were. Though it is ultimately hard to prove, the first porn site is believed to be sex.com, registered in 1994 by some guy named Gary Kremen. The rhyming with semen is purely coincidental.
Anyway, Gary claims that he didn’t have any pornographic intentions with the site, although a fellow named Stephen M. Cohen saw the potential of sex.com and had its ownership fraudulently transferred to his name using fake faxes and forged documents. Long story short, Kremen fought to get back ownership of the site, eventually selling it for $12m. In between the legal battles and selling of the site, Kremen had over time found another porn site- match.com which probably was more porn oriented than sex.com.
Finally
So there you have it. Internet porn has been in existence way before 2006, and Tom Cruise had no reason to be that ignorant if indeed he didn’t know of its existence and wasn’t trying to be funny. Meanwhile, check out our review of sex.com.
