Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One star Simon Pegg admits that he and his co-stars worry about Tom Cruise doing his stunts and wonder if he will make it out alive. The upcoming Mission: Impossible movie will see Cruise return as Ethan Hunt and perform a series of elaborate stunts. One of those is a motorcycle parachute jump off a cliff, which has been heavily highlighted during the film’s promotional materials, including in a behind-the-scenes featurette that played before IMAX showings of Avatar: The Way of Water.
While speaking to Deadline during the Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One premiere in Rome, Pegg discusses how truly dangerous Cruise’s stunts are, and how he and other actors worry about losing Cruise during filming. Nevertheless, Pegg reaffirms that Cruise has always made it out okay. Check out what he says on the matter below:
You know, I’m lucky because Benji just kind of stays behind the computer and he does his thing. Tom is jumping off cliffs on a motorbike he’s hanging his you know, hanging off trains — it’s genuinely dangerous stuff. There’s always a sense that, you know, one day, something might go wrong we might lose Tom, you know. Anytime there’s a big stunt, we all have that sense of, you know, fear, but he always pulls it off.
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Cruise will always go the extra mile to entertain and enthrall, which means doing most of his own stunts. In Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, he climbed Dubai’s Burj Khalifa in one of the franchise’s most impressive action sequences, and he hung onto a plane and held his breath underwater for six minutes in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. In the following installment, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Cruise performed a practical HALO jump and famously broke his ankle while jumping from one rooftop to the next.
Cruise is doing it all over again in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. The motorcycle stunt mentioned above was dubbed by Cruise as the most dangerous he’s ever done, and it required months of planning before it was executed for the film. Cruise trained for over a year. The stunt sees him riding off a cliff on a motorcycle and then BASE jumping to the bottom of the mountain. This continues to show how insistent the Mission: Impossible franchise is at pushing the envelope for practical action scenes, and how Cruise is always willing to do whatever it takes to entertain.
Cruise also has several other stunts in the film, including an extensive car chase on the streets of Rome alongside Hayley Atwell. A newly-released featurette showed that Cruise did most of his own driving during the sequence, adding to the authenticity of the moment. The Mission: Impossible franchise has always been on the cutting edge of stuntwork and crafts action scenes based on how far Cruise can go. It looks like the franchise has its biggest chapter yet with Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning – Part One.
Source: Deadline
