Mission: Breakfast.
Tom Cruise has revealed the important thing to enduring his death-defying “Mission: Impossible” stunts: a “massive breakfast.”
The “Top Gun: Maverick” actor, 62, shared the trick of the commerce in a brand new interview with Individuals forward of the discharge of the eighth and doubtlessly final installment within the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” which hits theaters Might 23.
Within the film, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) clings to the wing of a Nineteen Forties biplane mid-air earlier than he hoists himself up and crawls alongside the metallic flank as South Africa’s Drakensberg mountains loom beneath.
Cruise, all the time up for a problem, tackled the stunt with relish — and a hearty meal.
“I actually eat a massive breakfast,” Cruise defined. “The quantity of power it takes — I practice so arduous for that wing-walking. I’ll eat, like, sausage and nearly a dozen eggs and bacon and toast and occasional and fluids.
“Oh, I’m eating! Picture: It’s cold up there. We’re at high altitude. My body is burning a lot.”
The stunt was one thing he aspired to do since childhood.
“I remember seeing old footage of wing-walking. Those aircraft were only traveling at, I don’t know, 40, 50 miles an hour. This aircraft is up to over 120 miles an hour. Going out there, I was realizing that it takes your breath away,” he stated.
“Anytime you see Tom in the plane, he’s at the controls,” stated Christopher McQuarrie, who directed and co-written the final three “Mission: Impossible” films (“Rogue Nation,” “Fallout,” and “Dead Reckoning Part 1”).
“He’s basically a one-man film crew: operating the camera, acting and flying.”
Stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood added, “Everyone will think we did some on green screen on the ground. I guarantee there was not one single shot that was not on a plane flying for real.”
Cruise confirmed his late mom footage of the stunt earlier than she handed. The actor correctly didn’t inform her concerning the stunt forward of time. “Oh, honey, I’m so glad you didn’t fill me in on that one beforehand,” he recalled her saying.
“Final Reckoning” additionally included one other terrifying stunt: Cruise tumbled round an enormous water tank constructed to copy the inside of a flooded submarine with out a SCUBA masks so the viewers may see his face unobstructed.
“You’re not going to feel as connected with the character if I went with a regular mask and a thing in my mouth to breathe,” Cruise stated. “Luckily when you’re flying jets you train for hypoxia and for carbon dioxide buildup. You start to be able to perceive your body and how it’s reacting so that I knew when to stop.”
“If we knew what it took to do it, we would not have done it,” McQuarrie mirrored.
Cruise has no regrets, nevertheless. “On Mission, if it was easy, I guess we wouldn’t want to do it,” he defined.
Even after making 8 “Mission: Impossible” films, the star nonetheless “always” has moments of gratitude for his work.
“I love making movies. It’s not what I do. It’s who I am,” he stated.
“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” premieres on the 2025 Cannes Movie Pageant on Might 14 earlier than arriving in theaters on Might 23.
