Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Sydney Sweeney has given a shoutout to Tom Cruise after a wing walking stunt.
The 28-year-old Euphoria actress followed in the highflying footsteps of the adrenaline-fuelled action star, who has been doing his own blockbuster stunts for decades.
In 2025 movie Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, he took that to another level, and now Sydney has recreated his aerial acrobatics.
In an Instagram post, the blond bombshell shared footage from a wing walk over the Kent countryside in the south of England.
She was strapped to the top of a biplane and soared as part of the daring feet.
She cheekily captioned the clip: “Watch out tom cruise (sic)”
Sydney, who wore goggles and a vest for the stunt, was attached the plane as it flipped upside down and flew in loops.
As reported by the BBC, Michael Pickin – director and pilot at The Wing Walk Company – admitted Sydney was “a bit apprehensive at first”.
However, he described her as “an adrenaline junkie at heart”.
He added: “Adrenaline experiences like skydiving have been around for a long time and everybody knows about them, but wing-walking is relatively new.
“Hopefully, this will help show more people what we do.”
When Tom Cruise did his wing walk, he was on an 80-year-old Stearman biplane travelling at 140mph, 8,000 feet in the air.
In a behind the scenes flip from The Final Reckoning, he said: “Few things inspire me quite like an aerial sequence.
“Since I was a kid I always wanted to do wing-walking. I saw an old black and white film. I was like man, what would it be like to do that?”
Mission: Impossible writer and director Christopher McQuarrie admitted there were challenges with the stunt, as Tom was without a radio, while even slight temperature changes ran the risk of hypothermia.
The filmmaker told GQ: “The wind is hitting him not only at the speed that the plane is flying but the wind coming off the propeller. It’s hitting him at well over a hundred-plus miles an hour.
“There were times when Tom would have to lay down on the wing to rest between takes. You can’t tell if he’s conscious or not.
“And unless Tom pats the top of his head [as the hand signal for stop] it’s like, keep rolling.”
