It’s possible you’ll be shocked to find out how a lot Tom Cruise acquired paid for his cameo and stunts on the Paris Olympics.
WASHINGTON — As a teaser for the 2028 Summer Olympics, actor Tom Cruise pulled off a death-defying stunt and sped by the streets of Paris with the Olympic flag to shut out the 2024 Video games.
It is a second that’s nonetheless being talked a couple of month after the Closing Ceremony, however in accordance with organizers, Cruise did it only for the thrills and all at no cost.
The “Mission: Inconceivable” star began his stunt by leaping off the Stade du France, touchdown contained in the stadium and wading by a crowd of Olympians to just accept the Olympic flag from L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and the GOAT herself, gymnast Simone Biles.
Cruise then rode a bike by the gang earlier than viewers had been then proven a pre-recorded continuation of the sequence with the motion star driving throughout Paris with the flag in tow earlier than driving it straight onto a aircraft, which took off for California. Cruise then skydived into the hills behind the Hollywood signal.
It was a stunt totally within the wheelhouse of the daredevil actor, who frequently does his personal stunts in movies, together with holding onto an airplane because it took off.
You’d count on that Cruise would ask for a hefty payday to carry out a stunt routine as advanced because the one he did in Paris. However in accordance with Casey Wasserman, chairman of the LA2028 Olympic and Paralympic Video games, the actor did it at no cost.
“About 5 minutes into the presentation he goes ‘I am in. However I am solely doing it if I get to do all the pieces,'” Wasserman said during an interview on CNBC’s Game Plan Summit after the Games.
The unique plan organizers pitched had a stunt double doing the Paris stunt work main as much as the Tom Cruise cameo from L.A. They figured that Cruise can be too busy to participate within the precise ceremony.
“And by the best way, did all of it at no cost, everybody on that program – that 15-minute (video) did it at no cost,” Wasserman defined.
He shared this week that Cruise was recent off a shoot for the following “Mission: Inconceivable” film when he flew from London to Los Angeles to report the Closing Ceremony segments that passed off in California.
“He completed filming ‘Mission Inconceivable’ at 6 p.m. in London, acquired proper on a aircraft. He landed in LA at 4 a.m. He filmed the scene the place he pulls onto a navy aircraft in L.A.,” Wasserman said. “He does two jumps out of the factor. He didn’t like the primary one, so he did a second bounce. Then he helicoptered …. from Palmdale to the Hollywood signal, filmed from 1 till 5, helicoptered to Burbank Airport and flew again to London.”
Wasserman additionally teased that they’d like to have the Olympic rings on the Hollywood signal for the 2028 Summer season Olympics, however nothing has been finalized but.
