Tom Cruise enters history with a world record for fiery waterfalls

Sauté in parachute with a sail on fire, you have to dare. To do it 16 times in a row is really crazy.

He never ceases to impress!

While Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning approach of the $ 400 million in the world, Tom Cruise has just won a new record.

A world record. Official. Validated by Guinness Book: 16 fiery parachute jumps Made for the needs of filming the film. During a spectacular sequence by plane, the actor literally jumped towards a potential death, his parachute on fire … sixteen times! A dizzying feat immortalized in a making-of video unveiled by Paramount to see below:

The star started 16 times from a helicopterharnessed to a parachute previously soaked in fuel and fiery in full flight. Once the canvas are charred, Cruise had to detach it in free fall before deploying a rescue parachute to land safe. To date, No other actor or even stuntman has made so many extreme jumps. Hence the record.

Before one of these jumps, we hear Cruise Explain the issues in the video: “If it twists while it burns, I’m going to start spraying and burning. I have to get out of the twist and kissing myself in the 10 seconds.” Then, with its usual calm: “We’re going to be clever. I’m not saying that you have to be reckless. Obviously, we don’t take risks.”

Craig Glendayeditor -in -chief of Guinness World Recordsapplaud the performance: “Tom is not content to embody action heroes – he is an action hero. Ahe largely of its success is due to its quest for authenticity and its desire to push the limits of what an actor can accomplish. It is an honor to be able to recognize his absolute courage with this new title Guinness. “

Announced as Ethan Hunt’s final mission, The Final Reckoning could therefore mark the end of the era Cruise For the franchise launched in 1996. And what could be more symbolic, to bow out, than a last jump in the flames?