This is how much Tom Cruise got paid for his stunt at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games

The passing of the Olympic flag from one host city to the next is an integral part of every Olympic closing ceremony. This year, Tom Cruise was part of the festivities and, in high-profile Hollywood fashion, helped bring the flag from Paris to Los Angeles. His salary for the stunt, however, was not so impressive.

Entertainment executive and LA28 President and Chairman Casey Wasserman explained how the pre-filmed segment came about in a CNBC x Boardroom panel on September 10. According to The Hollywood ReporterWasserman revealed that Cruise jumped at the opportunity (no pun intended) to jump from the Stade de France in Paris.

“We applied on Zoom and the original idea was to have a person in the stadium as a stunt double,” Wasserman explained. “We thought, 'There's no way we can do that. We're getting four hours of shooting. We're doing the thing [in] LA with the Hollywood sign, he hands the thing over and that's it. Maybe we get the other stuff and the rest is just a stunt double.'”

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Cruise was enthusiastic about the idea, but set one condition. “About five minutes into the presentation [Cruise] says: “I'm in. But I'll only do it if I can do everything,” Wasserman said.

Cruise and everyone else involved in the project not only did the stunts themselves, but also did everything for free.

It's not the only high-profile gig that famously doesn't pay a dime. Every year, the Super Bowl halftime show performers don't get paid a dime for their work and instead, like Cruise, are paid with unprecedented exposure in front of hundreds of millions of people around the world.

The Summer Olympics will take place on July 14, 2028 in Los Angeles.