Tom Cruise received birthday wishes from a number of high-profile collaborators as he turned 60 on Sunday. Among those to post birthday wishes the perennial A-lister included filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie, who has worked alongside Cruise in 2012’s Jack Reacher as well as multiple Mission: Impossible films, including the forthcoming Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One and Part Two.
‘Happy 60th Birthday, Tom,’ McQuarrie captioned an accompanying shot of Cruise clinging to the wing of a vintage plane in mid-air.
Cruise, who returned to the role of Capt. Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in the summer smash Top Gun: Maverick, also received kind words from two of his costars in the movie, Val Kilmer and Glen Powell.
Kilmer said, ‘Happy Birthday Mav @TomCruise from Ice!’ in reference to his reprising the role of Adm. Tom ‘Iceman’ Kazansky in the sequel.
Powell, who plays the role of Lt. Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin in the movie, reposted the death-defying image McQuarrie shared.
He wrote: ‘This is 60. TC, there is just no one like you. Keep hanging’ in there. Happy Birthday!’
The movie has been a smash hit, as it has garnered $564 million in box office totals domestically and more than $1.1 billion in international totals, according to Box Office Mojo, making for Cruise’s highest-earning film ever on a worldwide basis.
This weekend, the film dropped only 16 percent from the previous weekend, a practically unheard of drop for such a high-profile blockbuster.
Cruise was seen working last November in Cambridgeshire, England perfecting the stunt, as he was seen donning a bodysuit and headgear during the death-defying sequence, Page Six reported.
The plane in the stunt is a 1941 Boeing B75N1 Stearman biplane, and was 2,000 feet in the air when Cruise did the maneuver.
The outlet reported that the stunt was likely in preparation for an upcoming Mission: Impossible movie.
