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Tom Cruise revealed his “most unsafe stunt” ever successful a behind-the-scenes diagnostic for his upcoming film, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” in a clip posted Wednesday connected Twitter.
Days aft posting a video jumping retired of a plane, the “Top Gun” histrion shared a 9½-minute-long clip showing him driving a motorcycle disconnected of a cliff.
“This is acold and distant the astir unsafe happening we’ve ever attempted,” said the 60-year-old actor. “We’re going to sprout it successful Norway and it volition beryllium a motorcycle leap disconnected a cliff into a basal jump.”
According to Cruise, helium has wanted to prosecute successful the risky concern since a young age.
Christopher McQuarrie, who wrote and directed the film, said that Cruise, who insists connected doing each his ain stunt work, enactment everything from the program to the stunt squad together.
Stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood revealed that Cruise went done “a twelvemonth of basal training, precocious sky-dive training, a batch of canopy skills, a batch of tracking.”
Base jumping manager Miles Daisher described Cruise arsenic an “amazing individual.”
“You archer him something, and helium conscionable locks it in,” Daisher added. “His consciousness of spatial awareness, he’s the astir alert idiosyncratic I’ve ever met.”
“I person to get truthful bully astatine this that there’s conscionable nary mode that I miss my marks,” joked Cruise.
The “Jerry Maguire” prima said that helium did 30 jumps a time to cleanable each facet of the stunt. The video said that helium has performed implicit 13,000 successful total.
“Coming up with the stunt is lone 1 of the method challenges,” said McQuarrie. “The different is putting a camera successful spot that you tin spot wherever Tom is doing it.”
“Finding the close lens, the close platform, the close medium. Even 2 years ago, the cameras didn’t beryllium that would let america to bash what we are trying to bash today,” McQuarrie added.
Cruise explained that the cardinal to getting the changeable is consistency arsenic good arsenic hitting the close speed.
“We person to beryllium capable to consistently foretell wherever Tom volition beryllium successful three-dimensional space,” McQuarrie noted.
According to the video, Cruise performed the stunt six times a day.
“This is acold and distant the astir unsafe stunt we person ever attempted,” McQuarrie said. “The lone happening that scares maine much is what we person planned for ‘Mission 8.'”
Cruise precocious wished his fans blessed holidays and thanked them for their enactment — and past jumped retired of a helicopter.
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” is acceptable to beryllium released successful theaters connected July 13, 2023.