Paramount Pictures
Before Avatar: The Way of Water has the chance to overtake Top Gun: Maverick as the highest-grossing film of the year, Tom Cruise decided to thank fans for showing up by giving them a little preview of one of his death-defying stunts from the upcoming Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning.
Hanging off the side of a plane over the beaches of South Africa, Cruise says he “didn’t want the year to end without thanking you all for coming out to the theaters and thank you for supporting Top Gun: Maverick.”
At that point, director Christopher McQuarrie taps him on the shoulder to let him know it’s time to “get this shot” of him jumping out of the plane. After McQuarrie wishes him luck, Cruise starts falling towards the earth as he continues, casually, “Where was I? Oh yeah. Thank you for supporting Top Gun: Maverick and, as always, thank you for allowing us to entertain you. It truly is the honor of a lifetime.”