Actor Bill Murray jumped from an airplane 13,500 feet up above Lake Michigan with members of the Army Golden Knights Parachute Team. Murray’s jump was part of the opening of Chicago’s 50th annual Air & Water Show which continues until 17 August. According to the Chicago Sun Times, Murray had no preparation for his first skydiving experience but he wasn’t left alone as he jumped along with a member of the Golden Knights Parachute Team, Sgt. Joe Jones. All in all, the trip lasted for about five minutes, divided in one minute of free-fall, during which he played air guitar, and four minutes of “dangling,” the Chicago Tribune reported. The two landed safely on a lakefront beach.

"I've had second thoughts, believe me. I've been really nervous. All the jokes [from friends] involve death," said the 57-year-old star of “Lost in Translation” and “Ghostbusters.”

Murray admitted having had hesitations just before he went up, but afterward he told the Chicago radio station WBBM-AM it was “quite a kick.”

“It was 120 miles an hour and I was laughing hysterically as I was falling but just before it I was tearing up a little bit thinking, oh not another stupid mistake,” Murray said to the same radio station.

The Golden Knights also helped President George H. W. Bush to make his skydiving dream come true.

Apart from “Lost in Translation” for which he received a 2003 Oscar nomination and “Ghostbusters,”  he also starred in “The Lost City,” “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” and “Broken Flowers.”