Tom Cruise went full Mission: Unimaginable mode for the closing ceremony on the 2024 Paris Olympics on Sunday with a stunt-filled particular look that symbolically handed off the obligations of the Olympic video games to Los Angeles — the place they are going to be held in 2028.
Cruise, 62, who is known for doing his personal stunts in his films, impressed the world when he repelled off the highest of the Stade de France and dropped down by means of the air on security wires earlier than touchdown on the sector stage.
Cruise was greeted by athletes and cheered on by followers as he walked throughout the stage to the rocking guitar of H.E.R — who had additionally performed the Nationwide Anthem shortly earlier than.
As soon as on stage, Cruise met with and shook palms with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and gold medalist Simone Biles.
Cruise was then given the Olympic flag and ran off to a motorbike ready for him, the place he connected the flag to the bike and rode out of the stadium.
From there, Cruise drove by means of the streets of Pairs — that’s, he did so in a pre-recorded phase that noticed the actor get on a airplane and fly the flag to Los Angeles.
As soon as within the Metropolis of Angels, Cruise jumped out of the airplane and soared by means of the L.A. skies and previous the Hollywood signal, which had been modified to show the 2 “O”s in “wood” into two of the 5 Olympic rings.
Cruise has lengthy been well-known for doing excessive stunts for a number of of his motion movies, lots of which have by no means been achieved or tried earlier than.
In June 2023, Cruise spoke with ET whereas in Rome selling Mission: Unimaginable – Lifeless Reckoning Half One, and he revealed that the most harmful stunt of his profession — a motorbike bounce off of a cliff right into a base bounce — was the first-ever scene filmed for the motion flick.
“Well, we know either we’re gonna continue with the film or we’re not,” Cruise stated with amusing of planning the death-defying stunt. “Let’s know day one… Do we all continue, or is it a major rewrite?”
In all seriousness, the actor added, all of it got here all the way down to focus. “It was years preparing. I mean, I’ve been riding motorcycles since I was a little kid, raced cars and spent a lot of time just with aerobatics, airplanes, helicopters and parachutes… It all kind of came to that moment,” he defined.
“You have to be razor sharp when you do something like that, so it was very important as we were prepping the film that that actually was the first thing [to shoot], because I don’t want to drop that and go shoot other things and then have my mind somewhere else,” he continued. “Everyone was prepped, let’s just get it done.”
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