Tom Cruise holds the Olympic flag in the course of the Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024. Fabrizio Bensch- Pool/Getty Pictures
Tom Cruise‘s payday for performing a death-defying stunt on the 2024 Paris Olympics closing ceremony could have been his lowest but, because the famous person wasn’t paid something in any respect.
The Mission: Inconceivable actor’s stunt noticed him soar from the highest of the Stade de France into the stadium the place he was handed the Olympic flag by embellished gymnast Simone Biles and Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass.
After retrieving the flag, Cruise jumped on his bike and a pretaped section confirmed the actor using via Paris, boarding a cargo aircraft to L.A. and arriving on the iconic Hollywood signal. Cruise’s jaw-dropping stunt was the proper handover to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
The 2024 Paris Olympics have created a number of picture-perfect moments since kicking off on July 26. Maybe essentially the most viral snap got here in the course of the third spherical of the lads’s browsing competitors on July 29. After finishing a barrel trip in Teahupo’o, Tahiti, Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina soared within the air and pointed his finger towards the […]
Throughout a “CNBC x Boardroom: Recreation Plan” panel in Santa Monica on Tuesday, September 10, LA28 president and chairperson Casey Wasserman shared Cruise’s very cheap price for performing in Paris. Confirming that Cruise and his whole crew didn’t take a cent for the spectacular efficiency, Wasserman additionally defined how the stunt got here collectively within the first place.
“The perfect a part of the story is we pitched on a Zoom and the unique thought was an individual within the stadium as a stunt double,” Wasserman mentioned, by way of The Hollywood Reporter.
Tom Cruise jumps from the roof of the Stade de France in the course of the Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024. Fabrizio Bensch- Pool/Getty Pictures
Wasserman and the crew assumed the actor would merely take part in a pretaped section in L.A. and could be too busy to participate within the Olympics closing ceremony, however the Golden Globe winner had different plans.
“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,’” Wasserman defined.
Behind-the-scenes, organizers tried to mood their expectations, believing Cruise could be too busy to truly participate, however he rapidly proved all of them flawed.
Tom Cruise rides on a Motorcycle with the IOC Flag in the course of the Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 11, 2024 in Paris, France. Jamie Squire/Getty Pictures
When it got here to filming in Los Angeles, Cruise didn’t even let his hectic appearing schedule get in the best way. “He completed filming Mission: Inconceivable at 6 p.m. in London, acquired proper on a aircraft,” Wasserman mentioned. “He landed in L.A. at 4 a.m. and filmed the scene the place he pulls onto a army aircraft.”
Wasserman continued, “In L.A., 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 [a.m.], helicoptered to Burbank Airport and flew again to London.”
Mainly, as soon as Cruise units his thoughts to one thing, there’s actually no stopping him.
