Admitting to Getting Sick
Tom Cruise wasn’t shy about getting sick while on set. On Jimmy Kimmel he said, “Anyway, we did all the training, and then came the day that we’ve got to fly. We set up the cameras, and it wasn’t like today. It was really challenging – quite brilliant of Tony Scott, how he figured out how to do it. But the guy who flew me in the first flight, his name was Bozo. The pilot’s name was Bozo! So, I’m strapping in and we’re getting in there, and you see the helmet go on that says ‘Bozo.’ I’m like, ‘Bozo?’” Before taking off, Cruise noticed that an emergency light was on. “I remember saying, ‘Bozo, these lights… there’s a lot of red lights.’ He’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.’ He starts turning them off. I’m like, ‘Okay.’ He’s like, ‘They don’t call me Bozo for nothing.’
“My head was on the ground! I was pressed on the floor holding my vomit. I’m trying to press the talk button; it was on the foot. I kept going, ‘Bozo! Bozo! Bozo!’ I was choking, he just kept pulling up and up and up. Finally, he released and we were going straight ahead,” Cruise explains.
