Tom Cruise Did The Most ’80s Factor On First And Solely Date With Heather Locklear – The Boston Courier

Heather Locklear mentioned Tom Cruise confirmed off the long-lasting sliding-on-his-knees transfer that he would later carry out in “Risky Business” on their first and solely date within the Eighties.

Locklear instructed ’90s Con Florida followers on Saturday in Daytona Seaside that she wasn’t certain the right way to react to the spectacle, Folks reported.

The previous “T.J. Hooker” and “Melrose Place” star mentioned she was “dancing along” with him at Membership Lingerie in Los Angeles when she thought, “Do you stop dancing if they’re down there?”

“I was like, ‘Yay!’ But he was very nice to me,” Locklear added.

The 1983 teen comedy “Risky Business” famously featured Cruise’s character dancing in his underwear to Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock & Roll.”

Locklear mentioned they’d auditioned for a challenge collectively earlier and carried out poorly, Folks famous. However he was “really cute.” He later confirmed up at her residence with one other actor who would grow to be an enormous star.

“So at that time he was just like this little baby boy that I feel like I was a little bit older, and he ended up coming over to my house with Sean Penn,” she mentioned, per the journal. “And they were just nice, but he was very, ‘yes ma’am’ to me, and I was like, ‘OK, sir.’”

She mentioned she was a “rock and roll girl” ― she later married Tommy Lee of Motley Crue and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi ― and Cruise didn’t “quite cut it” as her kind.

A wire photograph exhibits Cruise and Locklear collectively at Membership Lingerie in 1982, nevertheless it’s unclear whether or not that was their date.

Locklear beforehand addressed the awkwardness of watching him do the splits (as he additionally did within the notable sequence from the movie) on the dance ground that night time.

“You just kind of stand there and don’t know what to do,” she mentioned in 2013. “Do you dance around him? So, I was like, ‘I’ll just sit down and you can.’”