Tom Cruise amazed his ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning’ co-stars with his “relaxed” attitude towards his death-defying stunts.
Tom Cruise had a ‘relaxed’ attitude towards his gruelling stunt schedule
The Hollywood actor is back in action as Ethan Hunt in the seventh film in the series – ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ – and he took his love of daredevil sequences to new heights on set – but co-star Hayley Atwell insisted Tom looked like a man who had spent a “lovely day at the beach” instead of doing 29 skydives.
In an interview with Radio Times magazine, she explained: “The thing that surprised me more than anything else is how easy he wears it all. I remember we went over for dinner at his and he comes out and he’s like: ‘Hey, guys, how you doing?’ Sits down, we’re chatting about the film, chatting about our day, what we’ve been up to.
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“And we were like, well you know, how was your day? And he’s like: ‘Yeah, it was good, it was really nice actually, I had a lovely time. I did like 29 skydives I think today’.”
Hayley added that she was gobsmacked by his relaxed attitude towards it all. She went on: “The ease with which he said that! And also I’m sat there going, you look like a man that’s had a lovely day at the beach, you are so relaxed and comfortable in your own skin.
“And you’ve just done that! And I think it’s because he’s so disciplined in what he knows that he has to do in order to accomplish these stunts. And [he] has also that real understanding of how to relax and be fearless in it. And that’s the thing that I find most inspiring is the lightness with which he wears this all.”
The film includes high-octane stunts by Tom including the franchise’s most audacious sequence yet which shows the movie star driving a motorcycle off a cliff. The actor is said to have taken part in 500 skydives and 13,000 motocross jumps to prepare for the scene.
In a behind-the-scenes video, Tom revealed how much work he had to put in, saying: “I have to get so good at this that there’s just no way that I miss my marks. You train and drill every little aspect over and over and over and over again.”
Stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood added: “They were doing 30 jumps a day, getting to the point where he was just a machine.”
