“We were filming a scene and I told him, ‘You do know when I come around I’m gonna see your ass?’ And he’s like, ‘Is there any way to shoot around it?’ And I said, ‘No.’ And he said, ‘How is it?’ And I said, ‘It’s fantastic.’ And he said, ‘OK, well then let’s shoot it.'” – director Adam Shankman in the LA Times, talking about exposing star Tom Cruise’s still-supple bare ass in the film version of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages.