C’est Impossible: An Inside Look Into Tom Cruise’s Olympic Leap & The Mission To Rev Up To LA28
deadline.comTom Cruise has leapt from great heights under the guidance of Ben Winston, co-founder of Fulwell73 and creative producer of the LA Olympics 2028 handover, before.
This time, however, it was different. The whole world was watching. Cruise, who previously jumped out a plane alongside James Corden on The Late Late Show, which was exec produced by Winston, revved up the Paris Olympics closing ceremony as he started the engine on the handover to LA for the 2028 games.
After Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo passed the Olympic flag to LA Mayor Karen Bass, the first Black woman Mayor to receive the official Olympic flag during a Closing Ceremony, and Simone Biles, the most decorated U.S.
female gymnast of all time, Cruise leapt into the Stade de France before taking off on his motorcycle. The Mission Impossible star, who interrupted filming of the action movie to perform the stunt, then leapt from a plane to the Hollywood sign, passed the baton to Team USA Olympians including mountain biker Kate Courtney, track and field legend Michael Johnson and 2x Olympic medalist skateboarder Jagger Eaton, who took it to the beach, literally.
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