Video Of The Week - Tom Cruise, More Than Just A Good Actor
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While Hollywood star Tom Cruise has starred in all kinds of movies, he is best known for his action flicks - Films like Top Gun where he played a naval aviator and most recently, as secret Agent Ethan Hunt in the Mission Impossible series.
Turns out that in real life the 50-year old is as big a daredevil. When the actor was recently invited to pilot a Red Bull F1 car on Southern California's Willow Springs circuit, he handled it like a pro - managing to reach a top speed of 181mph (291km/h), just 4mph short of the top speed reached by his instructor and 13-time Grand Prix winner, David Coulthard.
If that wasn't enough excitement for the day, the actor then leapt onto an acrobatic helicopter and performed a few loops - Just like in the movies!
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- Alexander about 14 yearsOMG so cool!!! can he fly a helicopter or is that a pilot
- Anaabout 14 yearswow that is cool
alexa141about 14 yearsyeah ana!!! we r the only girls that had an interest in this article.....
- babigirl44about 14 yearsI could do that no matter i could even drift
- pony girl :)about 14 yearsWow! 50 years old that is almost as old as my dad! I can not believe he is doing that, go Tom Cruise!
- Blondie-botabout 14 yearsCool! I wanna try that someday!
- Emmieabout 14 yearswow!!!!!
- elyshaabout 14 yearsmy dad loves cars so mush i know it yeah.
- Kayleeabout 14 yearsI thought it was very interesting because I just thought he was a high action movie star not a daredevil. I know of him because my dad watches his movies a lot can't wait to tell him. Kaylee
- erikmartinezabout 14 yearsi will make a movie about me in a race car and i bet i will win a race and i will come in 1 place
- javier babi jokerabout 14 yearsi which i can race like that so that i can drift in yah....!