I guess they wouldn't let Tom take off from the stadium in his F-16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ey4Ap4DKAM
Movie star Tom Cruise rappelled from the roof of France's national stadium and received the Olympic flag, bringing a heavy dose of Hollywood to the closing ceremony of the Paris Games as the French capital handed over to the next host Los Angeles.
The rappelling was excellant but everything after leaving the stadium on the bike was Hollywood SFX.
shareThe rest was obviously scripted and produced previously.
Olympics LA28 Handover Producer On Tom Cruise’s One Condition To Do The Leap, How Much Was Live, Overcoming Tech Issues & More
https://deadline.com/2024/08/inside-look-tom-cruise-olympic-leap-la28-1236038304/
Winston told Deadline that what viewers of the ceremony saw was almost identical to what he pitched Cruise, with one small difference.
“I said to [Cruise], H.E.R. does the national anthem, she starts rocking out her guitar. We see a man on the roof in a balaclava. He jumps off the roof, he grabs the flag, he drives through Paris, gets on the back of a plane, takes his balaclava off and we reveal it’s you,” Winston said. “[Cruise] said ‘I absolutely love it, I’m 100% in.’ I remember how excited he was. He said, ‘There’s only one thing. There is no way that you’re going to use a stuntman. ‘It’s me on that roof, I’m jumping, I’m doing it all. There’s no man in a balaclava’.”
This was a year and a half ago. Winston explained that with a stuntman it would only require one day of filming, rather than five or six. “He was like, ‘We either do it and we do it wholeheartedly and we do it fully, or we don’t do it,’ ” Winston added. “He’s an incredible man, and just the single greatest collaborator you could ever work with. He’s inspiring. He’s hardworking, kind to everybody around him.”
I remember Gaga jumped from the roof during Superbowl
shareIs there going to be anything left of L.A in the next 4 years if Harris wins cause you can sure bet Gavin Newsom is already gearing up for 2028
shareSo what! Queen Elizabeth skydived!!
Just joking. Cruise is a complete bada** as usual.