Tom Cruise has been officially granted a Guinness World Record.For a stunt, he did while filming Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning.

In a sequence for the eighth Mission: Impossible movie, Cruise performed 16 parachute jumps, setting the record for the “Most Intense Parachute Jumps Performed By A Single Person”, according to Guinness World Records.

Guinness World Records Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday said the company was honoring Cruise for his “complete focus on authenticity” and called the act a demonstration of his “complete fearlessness”.

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A behind-the-scenes video of the stunt was released by Paramount Pictures. Cruise talks about the arrangement with his crew in it, pointing out the danger of the parachute twisting while on fire during descent. In spite of the risks, he himself performed all 16 leaps.

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A helicopter drop was used to perform the scene, and the parachute was clearly smoking as it descended. The studio put the footage together into a little clip.

Having been a member of the Mission: Impossible series since 1996, Cruise is renowned for doing a lot of his own stunts. Previous movies have featured scenes with greater airplane acrobatics, underwater scenes, building climbs, and high-altitude jumps.

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