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Tom Cruise now has a world record for most burning parachute jumps by an individual.
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," according to the Guinness World Records website.
"No other actor or stuntman has come close to that amount of death-defying drops."
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," according to the Guinness World Records website.
"No other actor or stuntman has come close to that amount of death-defying drops."