It has to be seen to be believed
Stephen PorzioFrom scaling the world's tallest building to becoming the first actor to perform a HALO jump on camera, stories of Tom Cruise performing his own stunts have become the stuff of legend.However, a feat the actor undertook for his upcoming blockbuster Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One may be his most impressive yet based on newly released behind-the-scenes footage.
In order to make the action feel as visceral as possible, Cruise performed the act himself, which the movies's director Christopher McQuarrie called"far and away the most dangerous thing" they have attempted. Cruise's base jumping coach Miles Daisher said of the stunt:"The only things you really have to avoid while doing a stunt like this is serious injury or death."You're riding a motorcycle, which is pretty dangerous, on top of a ramp that's elevated off the ground."You're falling. If you don't get a clean exit from the bike, if you get tangled up with it, if you don't open your parachute, you're not going to make it.
This involved the actor performing over 500 skydives and 13,000 motocross jumps as practice until he was an expert at both so that he could accomplish the scene itself, which required six takes. The results are jaw-dropping to say the least, with Cruise's base jumping coach John Devore dubbing it"the biggest stunt in cinema history".Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One arrives in Irish cinemas on 14 July 2023.
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