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Headline: UNCAPTIONED: Tom Cruise earns Guinness World Record for most burning parachute jumps
Caption: Tom Cruise earns Guinness World Record for most burning parachute jumps. Guinness World Records announced on Thursday that Cruise had pulled off the feat 16 times while filming Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. ”Tom doesn't just play action heroes - he is an action hero!" said Craig Glenday, the organisation's editor-in-chief. "A large part of his success can be chalked up to his absolute focus on authenticity and pushing the boundaries of what a leading man can do. It's an honour to be able to recognise his utter fearlessness with this new Guinness World Records title.” In the eighth instalment of the action-packed franchise, Cruise's character Ethan Hunt has a showdown with nemesis Gabriel, played by Esai Morales, in the skies. The sequence ends with Hunt falling from one of the planes as it's on fire. He deploys a parachute only to have it burst into flames and disintegrate. Cruise, a licensed skydiver, "leapt out of a helicopter 16 times while strapped to a parachute pre-soaked in fuel and lit ablaze, before cutting away the charred remnants of the first chute and safely deploying a backup.” "No other actor or stuntman has come close to that amount of death-defying drops." Instructions: THIS VIDEO MUST NOT BE EDITED FOR LENGTH TO COMBINE WITH OTHER CONTENT
Keywords: Tom Cruise,Guinness World Record,Actor,Parachute jumps,Burning,Movie,Franchise,Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning,Action
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