At 60, Tom Cruise pulls off a mind-boggling (and dangerous) new stunt in the new Mission Impossible. Which worries the rest of the team.
Tom Cruise is a fan of the most impressive stunts. And with each film, the 60-year-old actor pushes new boundaries. After jumping between two buildings, climbing on a plane taking off or scaling a skyscraper, the actor has launched a new challenge in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, in theaters on July 12, 2023.
In this seventh installment of the action movie franchise, Tom Cruise drives a motorbike to the edge of a cliff… and jumps with the machine into the void. A new feat achieved on the first day of filming to allow the actor to approach him in the best conditions… But also to be able to turn around if a dramatic accident had occurred.
What is certain, this new Tom Cruise stunt has still spun cold sweats to his colleagues. On the red carpet of the seventh episode of the saga, Simon Pegg, who plays Benji Dunn since Mission Impossible 3, confided his concern each time his friend performs a stunt: “We are always afraid that one day things will turn badly, and that we could lose Tom“, he confided to the microphone of Deadline. “Every time he does a big stunt, we get scared. But he always pulls it off.”
The actor has yet come close to disaster by shooting some of his films. In the Mission Impossible franchise, he was seen clinging to the door of an Airbus already in flight, climbing the world’s tallest tower in Dubai, snorkeling for 6 minutes, and climbing a mountain with his bare hands. In Jack Reacher, it’s an incredible chase in which Tom Cruise participated, with still significant risks, although controlled by the film crews.
But it was on the set of The Last Samurai, released in 2003, that Tom Cruise was closest to the fatal accident. He could have lost his life according to several media! While filming a scene on horseback, the actor’s steed stopped much too late and Tom Cruise was on the verge of being pierced by the sword of comedian Hiroyuki Sanada who arrived in front of him .
