'mission: Impossible' Star Tom Cruise's Unusual Preparation For Death-defying Stunts

Tom Cruise takes connected a assortment of vulnerable stunts for nan eighth installment of nan "Mission: Impossible" franchise.

In "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning," Cruise debuts 1 stunt he's been wanting to effort since he was a child: wing-walking. For this, he really moves astir connected nan helping of an airplane while successful flight. To complete daring stunts for illustration wing-walking, nan action prima makes judge to substance his assemblage for nan aggravated training.

"I really eat a monolithic breakfast," nan 62-year-old character told People. "The magnitude of power it takes – I train truthful difficult for that wing-walking. I’ll eat, like, sausage and almost a twelve eggs and bacon and toast and java and fluids. Oh, I’m eating! Picture: It’s acold up there. We’re astatine precocious altitude. My assemblage is burning a lot."

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Tom Cruise shared really he trains for his aggravated "Mission: Impossible" stunts. (Getty Images)

The character is "constantly training," explaining that "whether it’s nan soft aliases having much clip to dance. Or parachuting aliases flying airplanes aliases helicopters. The awesome point is you’re ne'er there. It tin ever beryllium better." Cruise has recovered that he's not arsenic bully astatine immoderate skills, for illustration piano, arsenic others. "I wouldn’t opportunity ‘play.’ I bask hitting nan keys … I find it relaxing."

As for what inspired him to want to effort wing-walking for nan upcoming film, he explained, "I retrieve seeing aged footage of wing-walking. Those craft were only walking at, I don’t know, 40, 50 miles an hour. This craft is up to complete 120 miles an hour. Going retired there, I was realizing that it takes your activity away."

"Mission: Impossible" stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood noted that each azygous aerial series pinch nan level was changeable successful flight.

"Everyone will deliberation we did immoderate connected greenish surface connected nan ground," he told nan outlet. "I guarantee location was not 1 azygous changeable that was not connected a level flying for real."

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Tom Cruise chooses to execute his ain stunts. (Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films)

Cruise has ever chosen to execute his ain movie stunts. "Anytime you spot Tom successful nan plane, he’s astatine nan controls," head and writer Christopher McQuarrie emphasized. "He’s fundamentally a one-man movie crew: operating nan camera, acting and flying."

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Cruise takes pridefulness successful his realistic work. For an underwater scene, nan character had to respire his ain c dioxide to get an unobstructed changeable of his face.

"You’re not going to consciousness arsenic connected pinch nan characteristic if I went pinch a regular disguise and a point successful my rima to breathe," Cruise told People. "Luckily erstwhile you’re flying jets you train for hypoxia and for c dioxide buildup. You commencement to beryllium capable to comprehend your assemblage and really it’s reacting truthful that I knew erstwhile to stop."

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"Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One" featured speedflying, 1 of nan world's astir vulnerable sports. (Getty Images; Paramount Pictures and Skydance)

Cruise has been making "Mission: Impossible" movies since 1996. However, he still has moments of awe.

"I emotion making movies," he noted. "It’s not what I do. It’s who I am."

"The Final Reckoning" follows Cruise's seventh installment successful nan "Mission: Impossible" franchise. "Dead Reckoning Part One" premiered successful theaters successful July 2023. The movie brought successful $565.7 million, according to Screenrant.

The eighth installment is simply a nonstop sequel to "Dead Reckoning Part One," picking up from nan cliffhanger ending. Cruise's Ethan Hunt has been moving to conclusion nan AI villain, "The Entity."

"The Final Reckoning" hits theaters May 23.

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Tom Cruise hanging disconnected nan broadside of a level successful a stunt for nan "Mission: Impossible" franchise. (Paramount )

Cruise antecedently revealed that he useful 7 days a week, mostly acting and producing, but he besides spends clip training for nan crazy stunts included successful his films.

"Look, arsenic an character and conscionable successful my life, I've ever trained conscionable to make movies," Cruise told Fandango successful 2023. "I train successful galore things – singing, dancing, motorcycles, cars – and besides my individual life. I for illustration skydiving and speed-flying and each these things. And I for illustration to past spell study these things and past use it to nan movies."

"But it is simply a existent trick, and I person gone done to fig out, ‘How do I train? How do I maintain? How do you deed highest correct astatine nan moment?’ Because besides erstwhile I'm doing a sprinting scene, I don't conscionable tally once. Sometimes I've done 50 sprints successful 1 day."

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