#and cruise would be like ‘yes. obviously. lestat is in love with louis. duh.’ and then move on

[marisatomay]

every time i see people unironically using the unedited version of this meme it fills me with such ire…maybe it’s because the people who use it seem to think that in 1994 norm macdonald genuinely thought that what was missing from interview with the vampire was tom cruise fucking brad pitt on screen instead of this being a blatantly homophobic joke—targeted mostly at cruise, someone who norm seemed to take particular glee in constantly finding new ways to publicly call a faggot while still meeting tv standards—which the general audience in 1994 would have found extremely funny, because the movie was not “not gay enough” it was actually too fucking gay.

[reloha]

@marisatomay: #it’s also worth noting that in basically every interview he gave at the time#the interviewer would be like ‘so….do you know…this movie…is like..gay…..’#and cruise would be like ‘yes. obviously. lestat is in love with louis. duh.’ and then move on#he and neil jordan truly seemed to truly be the only two who got it

Exactly! How would the joke even make sense the other way? Then it would just be a statement.

every time i see people unironically using the unedited version of this meme it fills me with such ire…maybe it’s because the people who use it seem to think that in 1994 norm macdonald genuinely thought that what was missing from interview with the vampire was tom cruise fucking brad pitt on screen instead of this being a blatantly homophobic joke—targeted mostly at cruise, someone who norm seemed to take particular glee in constantly finding new ways to publicly call a faggot while still meeting tv standards—which the general audience in 1994 would have found extremely funny, because the movie was not “not gay enough” it was actually too fucking gay.