By now, you’re likely familiar with the actor’s habit of doing his own stunts. The 62-year-old has been more than willing to put his body on the line in the name of getting a good shot, even if it’s come back to bite him in the past.
He drove a motorbike off a cliff in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, and then returned to the top to do the stunt five more times after being unhappy with the way the bike was plummeting to destruction.
Back in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation he was hanging off the side of a plane, and that was Cruise himself doing that scary stunt.
If you’re sensing that Tom Cruise being somewhere high up in a Mission: Impossible movie is a recipe for dangerous stunts, then you’d be right.
He also did some stunts at the Olympics. (Fabrizio Bensch- Pool/Getty Images)
Tom Cruise says he passed out multiple times while filming the plane stunt in #MissionImpossible8 ✈️ (via Empire Magazine)
“When you stick your face out [of the plane], going over 120 to 130 miles an hour, you’re not getting oxygen,” the actor said. “So I had to train myself how to breathe. There were times I would pass out physically; I was unable to get back into the cockpit.”
Apparently there’s an even more ‘intense’ stunt in the film than the one that made Tom Cruise pass out at times, which viewers will apparently be able to recognise when they see it.
For now it might be an idea to appreciate just how insane some of the moviemaking behind this franchise has been and how willing Tom Cruise has been to put himself out there for the art of cinema.
Fans have praised the actor as a ‘legend’ for his dedication, declaring that Cruise is ‘one of a kind’ and ‘untouchable’ as a film star.
