Six Tom Cruise stunts
so jaw-dropping they
defy the laws of physics
as we know them...
Upholding a career
tradition, Cruise does
many of his own stunts
in Mission: Impossible
– Fallout including
performing corkscrew turns in
a helicopter. Tom (being Tom)
learned to fly the chopper
especially for the film – and in
record time, too. What a guy! In Mission: Impossible 2,
Cruise’s character Ethan
Hunt free-climbs Utah’s
infamous Dead Horse
Point, which is basically
just a 2,000 ft vertical cliff.
The Cruiser did this for real
– without a safety net we
might add – tearing a shoulder
muscle in the process. Ouch.
Our third entry sees Tom
scaling the heights once
more, this time taking
on the world’s tallest
building in Mission:
Impossible – Ghost Protocol.
That’s really him dangling 1,700
ft up in the air, with only a few
safety wires for company. We’re
dizzy just thinking about it. How long can you hold
your breath? Maybe two
minutes, at a push? In
Rogue Nation, Cruise
was required to hold his
breath for three minutes in order
to hack an underwater safe. Easy
peasy for Tom who, following
military training, can actually go
six minutes without air. Show off.
Fallout again, this time
a dramatic chase sequence
involving Hunt and August
Walker. In hot pursuit,
Cruise attempts a colossal
leap, breaking his ankle, for real,
in the process. In true Tom style,
he was still able to complete the
take – although filming had to
be suspended for seven weeks. Our final entry isn’t an M:I
movie. In fact, Cruise isn’t
even the one carrying out
the stunt. Instead he’s the
passenger as Emily Blunt
takes a hard right in Edge of
Tomorrow – and we mean hard.
“I almost killed Tom Cruise,” the
actress confesses. We can see now
why Tom likes to do it his way!
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