The pay day for Tom Cruise’s newest, biggest stunt could shock you.
Cruise, 62, and his trusty stunts workforce accepted no payment for his inconceivable mission: swinging atop Stade de France and skydiving into the stadium through the 2024 Paris Olympic Games closing ceremony, solely to seemingly reappear within the air above the Hollywood signal.
Casey Wasserman, president and chairman of LA28, the org behind the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Video games, revealed the stunt was completed without spending a dime throughout a panel in L.A. on Tuesday, Sept. 10. The occasion, offered by CNBC and Boardroom, featured L.A. mayor Karen Bass, Staff USA managing director Grant Hill and actress-entrepreneur Jessica Alba, who sits on the LA28 Board of Administrators.
“The unique concept was an individual within the stadium as a stunt double,” Wasserman defined, per The Hollywood Reporter. “About 5 minutes into the presentation [Cruise] goes, ‘I’m in. However I’m solely doing it if I get to do the whole lot.’ ”
Of the pre-recorded Hollywood signal section, Wasserman joked, “It’s superb how briskly he bought to L.A., isn’t it?”
Though initially uncertain his workforce would have the ability to e book the High Gun star and pull off such an bold stunt sequence, the chairman stated that “each step of the way in which, he bought extra concerned and extra engaged.”
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The truth is, Cruise becoming the Hollywood signal shoot into his schedule was a daring stunt all its personal. The actor-producer was busy filming the upcoming installment of his Mission: Impossible movie sequence.
“He completed filming Mission: Not possible at 6 p.m. in London, bought proper on a airplane. He landed in L.A. at 4 a.m., and filmed the scene the place he pulls onto a navy airplane. In L.A., he does two jumps out of the factor,” Wasserman recalled, revealing that Cruise “didn’t like the primary one, so he did a second leap.”
“Then he helicoptered from Palmdale to the Hollywood signal, filmed from 1 till 5, helicoptered to Burbank Airport and flew again to London,” the chairman continued.
Cruise additionally made time to attend events on the Olympic Video games themselves, watching Simone Biles and the U.S. ladies’s gymnastics workforce compete on July 28.
Through the closing ceremony in Stade de France, he acquired the Olympic flag from Biles, 27, and Bass, 70.
France “deserves loads of credit score” for a profitable Summer time Video games, added Wasserman. “They reminded individuals why individuals fall in love with the Olympics… they did it spectacularly.”