Tom Cruise ‘begged’ Mission Impossible director to carry out ‘insane’ stunt alone
Tom Cruise is gearing as much as launch his eighth Mission: Impossible film subsequent month – Dead Reckoning Part One – the place he will probably be seen finishing up how most death-defying stunt but.
The film will present him driving a bike off a cliff earlier than parachuting to security.
This is the newest in a protracted line of frivolous and harmful stunts Cruise has carried out within the spy franchise.
But the primary (and maybe most memorable) stunt was dropped at screens in Mission: Impossible 2 when Cruise scaled a mountain with none gear.
The film’s director, John Woo, tried to speak him out of it although. “I refused,” he instructed Letterboxd. “I was angry and worried.”
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Woo, who is thought for steering Broken Arrow and Face/Off, went on: “I think the most dangerous and scary moment was when we were shooting Mission: Impossible 2, and Tom Cruise climbed 2,000 feet up a cliff by himself.”
He added that Cruise “didn’t allow him” to make use of any stunt doubles.
“He wanted to do all of the action by himself,” Woo stated. “It was insane!”
Woo revealed Cruise was “begging” him to do the sky-high stunt.
“I was so scared,” the director continued. “I couldn’t even bear to watch the monitor. But we set it all up, and he’s climbing up there by himself, and I’m sitting there praying: ‘Jesus, please don’t let anything happen.’
“He had no safety, so it was very scary, very harmful. But the scene turned out actually nice.”
Cruise’s stunt, after all, went completely, and the ultimate product is an unimaginable feat – but it surely solely acquired him began on this planet of Mission: Impossible stunts.
Since then, he has run up the Burj Khalifa constructing in Dubai, hung off the facet of a flying aircraft, and carried out dozens of HALO jumps from a cargo aircraft.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One hits cinemas on July 10, 2023.