Tom Cruise on Developing Stuntman Skills at an Early Age: ‘I Was the Kid Who Would Climb to the Rafters’

“I think I was about 4½ years old, and I had this doll, and you throw it up in the air and a parachute comes down. I played with this thing, and I’d throw it off a tree, and I was like, ‘I really want to do this.’ I remember taking the sheets off my bed, and I would tie a rope … and I climbed up to the eave, and I got up to the roof. I looked and my mother was in the kitchen — she had four kids — and I jumped off the roof,” he explained at a panel discussion with journalist Didier Allouch.

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