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Tom Cruise pulled off a powerful stunt on the Paris Olympics closing ceremony for which he was compensated by… thrill?
Based on Casey Wasserman, chairman of the LA2028 Olympic and Paralympic Video games, Cruise was all for his soar from the Stade du France to simply accept the official Olympic flag from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Olympian Simone Biles.
The “Mission Not possible” star then cruised (no pun meant) by way of the streets of Paris on his bike to board a airplane close to the Eiffel Tower earlier than reappearing for a skydive into the realm close to the Hollywood register Los Angeles in a pre-recorded section.
“The backstory is that we realized we have been producing a 15-minute reside TV present, and so I employed who I believe is one of the best individual on the planet to do this,” Wasserman stated in the course of the latest CNBC X Boardroom panel, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Wasserman stated Cruise insisted on doing all of the stunts himself.
“We’re like, properly there’s no manner have been’s getting this. We’re going to get 4 hours of filming time,” Wasserman stated. “We’ll do the factor that the LA with the Hollywood signal, he’ll hand the factor off and carried out. Perhaps we’ll get the opposite stuff and the remainder shall be only a stunt double. About 5 minutes into the presentation [Tom Cruise] goes ‘I’m in. However I’m solely doing it if I get to do every part.”
Cruise not solely did all of it, however Wasserman stated the actor did it totally free.
“He completed filming ‘Mission Not possible at 6 p.m. in London, received proper on a airplane. He landed in LA at 4 a.m. and filmed the scene the place he pulls onto a army airplane,” Wasserman recalled. “In LA he does two jumps out of the factor. He didn’t like the primary one, so he did a second soar. Then he helicoptered from Palmdale to the Hollywood signal, filmed from 1 till 5, helicoptered to Burbank Airport and flew again to London.”
Mission achieved.