The Guinness World Record Tom Cruise achieved for Mission: Impossible
Tom Cruise has been awarded a Guinness World Record for the "most burning parachute jumps by an individual."
The record was achieved during the filming of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, where Cruise jumped out of a helicopter 16 times with a fuel-soaked, burning parachute.
Each jump involved Cruise cutting away the burning parachute and deploying a backup, filmed in Drakensberg, South Africa, from a height of at least 7,500 ft.
Guinness World Records editor-in-chief Craig Glenday praised Cruise's fearlessness and commitment to authenticity.
Cruise also holds a Guinness World Record for the actor with the most consecutive $100-million-grossing movies, with his last 11 films achieving this milestone, and revealed he passed out during the shooting of one stunt sequence for the new film.
Tom Cruise awarded Guinness World Record for death-defying scene in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
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