Can you guess Tom Cruise's paycheck for insane Olympic stunt
Hollywood actor Tom Cruise left everyone stunned with his daredevil stunt during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics last month. The 60-year-old Mission: Impossible star jumped off the Stade du France, landed inside the stadium, and accepted the official Olympic flag from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Simone Biles. He then rode a motorcycle through Paris and skydived into the hills behind the Hollywood sign. But how much did he do it all for?
'Cruise did it all for free...'
Casey Wasserman, the president and chairperson of LA28, recently revealed that Cruise performed the stunt for free. "The best part of the story is we pitched on a Zoom, and the original idea was a person in the stadium as a stunt double," Wasserman said. "About five minutes into the presentation [Tom Cruise] goes, 'I'm in. But I'm only doing it if I get to do everything.'"
Cruise followed a hectic schedule to pull it off
Wasserman also detailed the hectic schedule Cruise had to follow for the stunt. "He finished filming Mission: Impossible in London, got right on a plane. He landed in LA and filmed the scene where he pulls onto a military plane." "In LA, he does two jumps out of the thing. He didn't like the first one, so he did a second jump. Then he helicoptered from Palmdale to the Hollywood sign...helicoptered to Burbank Airport and flew back to London."
Wasserman also praised Paris and the people of France
During the lively panel discussion, Wasserman also saved some praise for Paris and the people of France. "The French team deserves a lot of credit," he noted. "They reminded people why people fall in love with the Olympics. It's been a long time since you had a really beautiful, high-engaged global city that had the resources and the time and the opportunity to take advantage of what the Olympics can be, and they did it spectacularly."
