In 1995, after witnessing a woman getting struck by a car in his native Los Angeles, Cruise accompanied her to the hospital. He's even something of a hero in real life. He regularly spends time talking with fans and signing autographs, and he supports numerous charities, including Unicef. Secondly, by all accounts the actor seems to be a straightforward, decent human being. From big-budget action roles in Mission: Impossible and Jack Reacher to rom-coms such as Risky Business and Cocktail, high-end drama ( Rainman, A Few Good Men ), straight-up comedy ( Jerry Maguire ), sci-fi ( Minority Report ) or art-house psycho-drama Eyes Wide Shut, Cruise always seems to pull off his roles with aplomb. His enduring popularity can be accredited to various factors: first ly, he can clearly act. Cruise has even managed to maintain his popularity in spite of his commitment to the controversial Scientology sect, and despite going through highly publicised break-ups with some of Hollywood's best-loved actresses: Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Katie Holmes and Mimi Rogers. There have been exceptions – last year's The Mummy was probably the flop of the summer, losing Universal about $100m, but for him, hits are far more common than flops. Since then, Cruise has gone on to be the first actor to star in five consecutive movies that took more than US$100 million (Dh367.3m) at the American box office ( A Few Good Men, The Firm, Interview with the Vampire, Mission: Impossible and Jerry Maguire ), and has an estimated net worth of more than half a billion dollars. Indeed, the first film that really brought Cruise to public attention wasn't even an action film, but 1983 romantic comedy Risky Business – the sunglasses that Cruise's character wore in that film became so popular that he is said to have single-handedly increased Ray-Ban sales by 2,000 per cent. If it didn't, the stuntmen who regularly stand in for actors on set would be just as famous and popular as their doubles. But still, it takes more than leaping from a tall building to attain such an unassailable position in the hearts of audiences worldwide. The actor is an old-school action hero in the vein of Steve McQueen or Burt Reynolds, living in an era in which even actors who would like to perform their own stunts are usually prevented from doing so by nervous insurance companies. rock-climbing, hiking … I jog … I do so many different activities." Cruise merely puts his fitness down to: "Sea-kayaking, caving … fencing, treadmill, weights.
So what is the secret of Cruise's apparent eternal youth and his seemingly never-diminishing appeal?Ĭruise clearly keeps fit, although in a 2013 interview with Men's Health, he said he doesn't have any particularly special routine that keeps him able to leap from planes and scale dizzyingly high towers. The fact that he performed the Burj Khalifa climb in his late 40s would seem astonishing to many, yet here he is, almost a decade later, upping the stakes even further. What's the secret?Ĭruise is 56 years old. It took more than 100 jumps to film the final take. The military manoeuvre is normally used as a last-ditch option to sneak troops behind enemy lines, jumping from a plane that is too high to attract attention or fire from the ground, then opening the parachute at a sufficiently low altitude to hopefully avoid being spotted. "The stunt" required Cruise to leap from a military aircraft at a dizzying height of 7,600 metres, then free-fall to 600 metres before he opened his parachute. Given that Cruise is famous for performing all of his own stunts – from the Burj Khalifa conquest to hanging, unharnessed, from the side of an Airbus A400M in flight in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, that claim clearly shouldn't be taken lightly. Cruise has described the Halo (High Altitude Low Opening) jump as "one of most dangerous stunts yet". The crew were back earlier this year, this time choosing Abu Dhabi as the location to shoot a dramatic stunt for Mission: Impossible – Fallout that the film's director, Christopher McQuarrie, has referred to simply – and ominously – as "the stunt". The team was first spotted here in 2010, when sections of Ghost Protocol were shot in Dubai, including the unforgettable stunt sequence that saw Tom Cruise himself scale the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.
The Mission: Impossible franchise is developing something of an ongoing love affair with the UAE.
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