Weeks after Tom Cruise’s unforgettable, jaw-dropping stunt efficiency on the 2024 Paris Olympics, behind-the-scenes secrets and techniques have been revealed.
Throughout a CNBC x Boardroom: Sport Plan panel to debate the 2028 Olympics, Casey Wasserman, who serves as LA28 president and chairperson, gave followers perception as to how they had been in a position to make the Cruise stunt occur. He additionally defined why the enduring actor had insisted on no pay and no stunt double.
“He completed filming ‘Mission: Not possible’ at 6 p.m. in London, received proper on a airplane,” Wasserman stated, by way of The Hollywood Reporter. “He landed in L.A. at 4 a.m. and filmed the scene the place he pulls onto a army airplane. 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, helicoptered to Burbank Airport and flew again to London.” And in line with Wasserman, Cruise did all of it without cost.
TOM CRUISE DIVES INTO PARIS OLYMPICS CLOSING CEREMONY IN JAW-DROPPING STUNT
Tom Cruise pulled off his Paris Olympics stunt without cost. (Mike Coppola/WireImage)
Wasserman, who employed seasoned TV producer Ben Winston to execute the stunt, stated the thought was initially pitched to Cruise by way of Zoom.
“One of the best 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,” stated Wasserman. “We’re like, ‘Nicely, there’s no method we’re getting this. We’re going to get 4 hours of filming time. We’ll do the factor . . . with the Hollywood signal, he’ll hand the factor off, and he’s accomplished. Perhaps we’ll get the opposite stuff and the remaining can be only a stunt double.’ About 5 minutes into the presentation [Tom Cruise] goes, ‘I’m in. However I’m solely doing it if I get to do every little thing.'”
The actor insisted on doing the stunt himself. (Getty Pictures)
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“[Ben] says, ‘Don’t get too excited. He loves doing these items, however when his group realizes what number of taking pictures days it’s going to be and rehearsals, that is by no means occurring. I’m telling you I received it, however it’s by no means occurring.’ Positive sufficient, each step of the best way, he received extra concerned and extra engaged,” he continued.
Tom Cruise waived the Olympic flag on stage on the closing ceremony. (Getty Pictures)
“I don’t assume there’s anyone like him on the planet,” Winston stated in an interview with THR. “There is no such thing as a higher collaborator.”
“The French group deserves quite a lot of credit score,” Wasserman stated in the course of the panel. “They reminded folks why folks fall in love with the Olympics. . . . It’s been a very long time because you had a very stunning, high-engaged international metropolis that had the sources and the time and the chance to benefit from what the Olympics may be, they usually did it spectacularly. To me, the best factor they did was they energized the folks of France, and people stadiums had been full and excited, and also you noticed the outcomes for the French groups being outstanding.”
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The “Mission: Not possible” star descended from the highest of the Stade de France after H.E.R. sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” in the course of the 2024 Paris Olympics’ closing ceremony on Sunday, Aug. 11.
Cruise waited on the prime of the Stade de France earlier than launching himself into the gang. (Getty Pictures)
Cameras panned to the highest of the constructing to look at Cruise effortlessly fly by the sky and all the way down to the athletes who had competed within the Video games of the XXXIII Olympiad.
After strolling by a sea of rivals, Simone Biles and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass handed Cruise the flag for him to convey it again to the States in a nod to suggest the hand-off from Paris to the upcoming 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
“Thanks, Paris! Now off to LA,” Cruise shared on X.
In a pre-recorded clip, Cruise rode by city and onto a airplane earlier than he made his approach to the highest of the Hollywood check in LA, which was by then configured to point out the Olympic rings.
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Fox Information Digital’s Tracy Wright contributed to this publish.
