Tom Cruise didn’t simply do his own particular insane, zero gravity stunts for The Mummy: he likewise gambled life and appendage taking an epic selfie while doing them. The performing artist, who is notable for doing his own particular absurdly detailed and perilous tricks, uncovered in a current meeting with USA Today exactly the amount he joked around on the Mummy set, including hanging out the window of a moving helicopter to take a selfie.
The helicopter was flying 2,000 feet over the Namibian abandon when Cruise got the thought to perilously report the occasion, something the star treats like it was an absolutely typical thing to do. “I just wanted a different kind of shot,” he said. “So I had my seat belt just [loose enough] to hang out. It was fun.”
Co-star Courtney B. Vance saw the deed, and said that Cruise resisted arranges in taking the photograph. “They told everyone, ‘Don’t take any pictures,'” he said. “We get up in the helicopter and [Tom is] like, ‘Wanna take some pictures?’ He’s funny. He was hanging out of the helicopter, taking selfies and pictures of us. Crazy!” Annabelle Wallis, who plays Cruise’s love interest, added that he loved to take his phone out during dangerous situations. “I’d look for my phone and be like, ‘Oh my god, he’s going to kill himself doing that!'” she said.
According to director Alex Kurtzman, this sort of trick is quite recently meaningful of Cruise’s astonishing comical inclination. “He’s very serious and very intense, but what people don’t know is that he really does like to play jokes,” Kurtzman said. “There were moments when we were shooting in an underwater tank and [he and Wallis] kept dunking each other in the water. And I kept looking at him like, ‘This is not the image people have of Tom Cruise.'”
Sofia Boutella, Russell Crowe, and Jake Johnson likewise star in The Mummy, which depends on a script from Jon Spaihts (Prometheus) and Christopher McQuarrie (Edge of Tomorrow). The film will be discharged on June 9; while we hold up, see a portion of the other future revamps and reboots that will overwhelm everybody.