Tom Cruise sends us his best wishes from the skies of South Africa.
On Sunday, December 18, the American star, famous for performing his stunts without stunts, shared a video on Twitter while filming the seventh and eighth installments of the
Mission Impossible
adventures , titled
Dead Reckoning
- Part 1 and 2. The 60-year-old actor wanted to express his gratitude to his fans for their support and to wish them happy holidays, while showing off his skydiving skills.
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“Hey everyone, he starts in this video of just over a minute and a half, we are above beautiful South Africa”, before adding: “And I did not want that the year ends without thanking you all for coming to the cinema and thank you for supporting
Top Gun: Maverick
”, he shouts again in front of the camera, struggling to mask the deafening sound of the roar of the helicopter.
Along with him, we see the film's director Christopher McQuarrie, also a screenwriter of
Top Gun: Maverick
, waving to the camera and also thanking the fans, before asking Tom Cruise to cut short his speech.
The image again focuses on the actor who quite naturally ends up jumping out of the machine, accompanied by a cameraman.
With her body extended into a star position to brace against air resistance, the Hollywood star resumes her speech.
“Where was I.
As always, thank you for allowing us to entertain you.
It is truly the honor of a lifetime.
Very lucky.
I'm running out of altitude, so I have to get back to work.
We need to shoot this shot.
Have a very safe and happy holiday, we'll see you at the cinema”, he concludes, before being carried away by the wind towards the ocean.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
will feature Tom Cruise in plenty of action scenes.
In the trailer, he can be seen in the middle of a fight in a nightclub, carrying out a chase on the roof of a moving train and, of course, performing numerous falls.
The film will be released in theaters on July 14, 2023. The sequel,
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two
is scheduled for release on June 28, 2024.
In video,
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
, the trailer
Top Gun: Maverick
, the sequel to the 1984 classic
Top Gun,
was a public and critical success: it is the highest-grossing film of 2022, grossing $718 million at the US box office and 1, $4 billion overall.
It's also garnering serious Oscar buzz after winning awards from the
National Board of Review
, the
Producers Guild of America
, and the
American Film Institute
.
