Tom Cruise can add a prestigious aeronautics medal to his lengthy listing of accomplishments.
The star of the forthcoming Mission: Unimaginable — The Ultimate Reckoning, who has a recognized penchant for piloting, leaping and hanging off of aircrafts, was honored with the Grande Medaille of the Aero-Membership de France, offered to him by the group’s president Catherine Maunoury Feb. 8.
The award was for his “vital contribution to the historical past of aviation and provoking future pilots,” in accordance with a press launch. The medal is the best distinction from the establishment, which was created in 1898.
Video captured on the occasion and posted to social media exhibits Cruise shaking arms with officers, being offered with the award and applauded by these in attendance.
Cruise — who just lately revealed he “would cross out bodily” whereas doing one explicit stunt for The Ultimate Reckoning, which includes him dangling precariously off of the wing of a Nineteen Thirties Boeing Stearman biplane at an altitude of 10,000 toes — famously does his personal stunts, various which require him to be airborne.
For High Gun: Maverick, the film star confronted fighter jet g-forces, and for a number of Mission: Unimaginable installments, Cruise has performed a whole bunch of skydives. Final yr, the veteran actor jumped off of the Stade de France to shut out the 2024 Paris Olympics, in a stunning feat that blurred the traces between his fictional characters and actual life.
