Tom Cruise's INSANE Payday For That Olympics Stunt Revealed - You're Not Gonna Believe This!

For any fan of action movies, the highlight of the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics had to be Tom Cruise.

The Mission: Impossible star pulled a stunt in which he descended on a rope down from the ceiling of the Stade du France to the floor. He then took the Olympic rings flag on a motorcycle to a plane and flew it all the way to Los Angeles, the host city of 2028. He then parachuted down to the Hollywood sign and passed off the flag to local athletes.

IT’S A BIRD. IT’S A PLANE. IT’S TOM CRUISE! ????#ParisOlympics | #ClosingCeremony pic.twitter.com/5v4j8pOwBF

— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 11, 2024

Wildly enough, a lot of that actually happened! As in, it was really Tom doing death-defying stunts! Certainly the rope, the motorcycle chase, and the parachute — the dangerous stuff! You can still watch the full thing HERE!

But it turns out the most unbelievable thing is how much Cruise got PAID for the stunt! Well, actually, stunts plural. The answer? ZERO! He got paid nothing! NADA! He did it all for free!

Apparently Cruise was just so fired up about the project and the Olympic games, he donated his time and energy (and risk of bodily harm!) for no pay!

LA28 president Casey Wasserman told the story during a CNBC x Boardroom: Game Plan panel in Santa Monica this week. He recalled:

“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. We’re like, ‘Well, there’s no way we’re getting this. We’re going to get four hours of filming time. We’ll do the thing that the L.A. with the Hollywood sign, he’ll hand the thing off and he’s done. Maybe we’ll get the other stuff and the rest will be just a stunt double.’ About five minutes into the presentation [Tom Cruise] goes, ‘I’m in. But I’m only doing it if I get to do everything.'”

And he did! Wasserman detailed:

“He finished filming Mission: Impossible at 6 p.m. in London, got right on a plane. He landed in L.A. at 4 a.m., and filmed the scene where he pulls onto a military plane. In L.A., 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, filmed from 1 until 5, helicoptered to Burbank Airport and flew back to London.”

And then of course the Stade du France thing happened live, for real, in front of everyone there. WILD!

But that’s Tom Cruise, we guess!

[Image via NBC Sports/YouTube.]