Tom Cruise in tears after realizing he been played of the Olympics;see more

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   Tom Cruise‘s payday for performing a death-defying stunt at the 2024 Paris Olympics closing ceremony may have been his lowest yet, as the superstar wasn’t paid anything at all.

The Mission: Impossible actor’s stunt saw him jump from the top of the Stade de France into the stadium where he was handed the Olympic flag by decorated gymnast Simone Biles and Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass.

After retrieving the flag, Cruise jumped on his motorcycle and a pretaped segment showed the actor riding through Paris, boarding a cargo plane to L.A. and arriving at the iconic Hollywood sign. Cruise’s jaw-dropping stunt was the perfect handover to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

During a “CNBC x Boardroom: Game Plan” panel in Santa Monica on Tuesday, September 10, LA28 president and chairperson Casey Wasserman shared Cruise’s very reasonable fee for performing in Paris. Confirming that Cruise and his entire team didn’t take a cent for the impressive performance, Wasserman also explained how the stunt came together in the first place.

The best part of the story is we pitched on a Zoom and the original idea was a person in the stadium as a stunt double,” Wasserman said, via The Hollywood Reporter.

About five minutes into the presentation, [Tom Cruise] goes, ‘I’m in. But I’m only doing it if I get to do everything,’” Wasserman explained.

Behind-the-scenes, rganizers tried to temper their expectations, believing Cruise would be too busy to actually take part, but he quickly proved them all wrong.