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Tom Cruise
15-Mar-2005
Written by: John Aadams
Suspected terrorist meets Samurai Tom.
I went to the airport a few hours early for a flight home to visit family--just to see if I could catch an earlier flight. The agent at the desk denied my request, and I left. They must have "red flagged" my name as a troublemaker, because when I returned for my scheduled flight, I was shocked at what happened. Security grabbed my arm and bag, and dragged me away...literally, like a terrorist. They explained their bull crap story walking me briskly, that my flight was "overbooked," and since I hadn't called to confirm my seat, I would have to wait in their private room while they found me a seat. Meanwhile, they took EVERYTHING from me (wallet, license, money) except a magazine I had in my hand. They basically suspected me of foul play for trying to change my flight and were checking up on me while keeping me under surveillance. I was put in a room with a table, some chairs, two security guards and two random guys. One of the guys keep giving me funny looks while I was reading my magazine--and while I ignored him, the other looked vaguely familiar. Having just seen Black Hawk Down the night before, this guy seemed like one of the actors in it. I kept looking at him until finally I asked, "Aren't you that guy in Black Hawk Down?” This seemed to really alarm the other guy with him, who seemed at this point to be making even more of a reaction to me just ignoring him. He said yes-- and as it turns out it was Eric Bana! Meanwhile, the other guy is still looking at me with an appearance of amazement-- as Eric and I continue talking. I ask why he is in town, and he responded saying that it was for the Seattle International Film Festival. He said “Yeah. Me and Tom here…” and suddenly I realize, who this guy other guy is. “Tom? Tom Cruise!?” I shouted in amazement. He had been looking at me so strangely because I didn’t acknowledge him-- and yet I recognized his “bit” part co-star before him! Tom’s hair was long, he had braces, and just a basic t-shirt and jeans- and I just didn’t get it was him right off the bat. He explained he was doing a samurai movie (turns out Last Samurai)- hence the grown out hair etc. So we laughed at the confusion, and they explained how they were so lucky to wait in these private rooms so no one bothered them- while it suddenly dawned on them who was I, to be allowed in there too? I replied laughing, “I am a suspected terrorist!” and continued to explain the situation. They chuckled at this (slightly uneasily), until they said, “Gee that’s great-- they treat suspected terrorists so kindly, put them in the room with the celebrities! We feel really safe?!” So anyway, after some more casual conversation, finally my flight was getting ready to board, and they had not yet found anything dubious in my background, so the airline miraculously found me a seat on the “overbooked” flight. We said our goodbyes, all laughing at the comical run-in. I laughed the whole way home, and even my friends hardly believed my story. A year or so later, when Last Samurai came out, it confirmed my story, so they knew I couldn’t have made it up. Anyway, it was too funny to come up with on my own.
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Pages Updated On: 7-Oct-2008 - 08:00:01
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