Tom Cruise reveals stunt skills at 59

About to turn 60 years old, and still remain the exceptional Hollywood star when it comes to taking risks on stage, Tom Cruise attended the Cannes Film Festival 2022 for the grand worldwide release of “Top Gun: Maverick”. And, during the red carpet, it was exactly on this subject that some doubts permeated.

Questioned by people about his skills as a stuntman, the actor said that it all started when he was still a child. “I think I was about 4 and a half years old, and I had this doll, and you throw it in the air and a parachute falls. I played with this thing, and I threw it out of a tree, and I was like, ‘ I really want to do this.’ I remember taking the sheets off my bed and tying a rope… and I went up on the eaves, I went up on the roof, I looked and my mom was in the kitchen – she had four kids – and I jumped off the roof.”he explained.

After the memorable memory, cruise He soon revealed that he regretted what had happened. “It’s that moment when you jump off the roof and say, ‘This isn’t going to work. This is terrible. I’m going to die.’ And I hit the ground so hard. Fortunately, it was wet. I don’t know how it happened, but I found out later that my face went through my feet when my butt hit the ground. And I saw stars during the day for the first time, and I remember me to look up and say, ‘This is very interesting'”, he added. Then the star joked: “I thought, ‘Oh my God, my mom is going to kill me’ because the sheets were dirty.”.

Now, at age 59, Tom Cruise told how he still manages to maintain the great skills of a true action stuntman, and always improve them. “Now here I am on a movie set…but I was the kid who climbed the rafters or climbed the tallest tree. Yeah, I wanted to do that, and how do I develop those skills and make them part of the story and of the character?”he reflected.

“Even if I wasn’t working on a movie, I was studying film, I was trying hard to learn different skills. I was like, ‘I’m going to put this in a movie one day.’ So I took dance lessons and put on ‘Les Grossman’ [em Tropic Thunder ]or ‘Rock of Ages’, and took singing lessons so I had the skills”explained the star.

Finally, asked about the 30-year delay for “Top Gun 2” to be released, cruise explained: “For ‘Top Gun,’ they say, ‘Why 36 years?’ I wasn’t ready in 1986. I remember the studio wanted to do a sequel right away, and I was like, ‘I don’t want to do this, I need to grow as an artist, I need to understand what cinema is.’ Some of the things I learned, in terms of Mission: Impossible, in doing sequels, I learned that I can have a dialogue with the audience. I didn’t expect to have that.”.

Tone completed saying that he always returned home thinking about how to carry out the project, even after so many years, and after many conversations with the producer Jerry Bruckheimer, started the sketch. That’s when she started writing down everything that came to her mind. “How could I do that for an audience today that I felt would be worthy of it – because you see these faces, I don’t want to let them down, I want to deliver. And artistically, for me, it has to work. And it takes time.”finished.

“Top Gun: Maverick” hits theaters next Thursday, May 26.