Tom Cruise’s payday for that wild 2024 Paris Olympics stunt is truly shocking
nypost.comattention-grabbing stunt at the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics: zero dollars. Casey Wasserman, the president and chairman of the 2028 Games in Los Angeles, talked about Cruise, 62, during Tuesday’s CNBC x Boardroom: Game Plan panel at the Fairmont Miramar hotel in Santa Monica, Calif. “He finished filming ‘Mission: Impossible’ at 6 p.m.
in London, got right on a plane. He landed in LA at 4 a.m. and filmed the scene where he pulls onto a military plane,” Wasserman said about Cruise, per the Hollywood Reporter.Wasserman added that “every step of the way, [Cruise] got more involved and more engaged” and ultimately did the pre-taped stunt for free.“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 … 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.’”But, the entertainment executive recalled, “About five minutes into the presentation, [Cruise] goes, ‘I’m in.
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