Tom Cruise quips he ‘still’ dances in briefs remembering iconic scene from Risky Business

Tom Cruise cherishes the memories of one of his 90’s breakthrough performances.

Cruise, 60, cracked a joke with Access Hollywood about his iconic sequence in the 1983 film Risky Business in which he danced while wearing only a shirt, briefs and socks, saying: "Look, I grew up dancing in my underwear in my house. Who didn’t?"

He grinned and said, "Yeah, I still [do]," in response to the question of whether such dance is still done after 40 years.

Currently promoting Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Cruise acknowledged that Risky Business served as the catalyst for his rise to action superstar.

Since the film's commercial success, numerous recreations and parodies of the sequence in which his teenage character Joel Goodsen dances and struts to Bob Seger's Old Time Rock & Roll have been produced.

The fact that the movie turns 40 this year astounds Cruise. "That’s amazing," he told during the interview. "I made it in ’82, I was 19 when I made it. I'll never forget that night, that day that I shot that scene."

After Cruise rehearsed the dance routine, writer and director Paul Brickman claimed to have collaborated with the actor on the film's iconic opening shot of Cruise sliding into the centre of the frame.

"I had to figure out how I slide across the floor in my socks," remembered the Oscar nominee. "So I saw the opening frame and I go, ‘I want to hit center frame.’ And it didn't work. And then I said, 'Well, let's just put [slick] stuff on the floor — and I slid all the way across."