Tom Cruise reveals why he chose to do all of his own stunts on ‘Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation’.
Love him or hate him, Tom Cruise is one fearless man. Recently, it was revealed that Tom Cruise did not use a single stunt double in the upcoming Mission Impossible movie.
One of the biggest scenes in the new Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation movie features a man shooting a real machine gun at the actor.
“This was my first experience with stunts, and an expert marksman was aiming at me!” he told W magazine. “Between takes I pulled the guy aside and said, ‘Have you done this before? You’re not going to shoot me, are you?’ I was terrified that my first big part would be my last.”
Tom Cruise didn’t get shot that day but, it grew his love for doing his own stunt work.
“There is no stunt double in this movie,” says Wade Eastwood, stunt coordinator on “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation,” the fifth film in the high-octane espionage franchise, out Friday. “The only time we used them was in rehearsal.”
In a recent interview with NY Post, he explained why he chose to do all of his own stunts for the movie and ultimately he points out that he loves how realistic the movie is now that they don’t have to cut away to a stunt person.
Tom Cruise spent weeks learning how to become a stunt driver and the actor learned how to hold is breath underwater for six minutes.
“The audience is becoming more critical, and they always want more,” Eastwood says.
But, that doesn’t mean he’s not scared. “I was scared s - - tless,” Cruise confessed of this stunt at April’s CinemaCon in Las Vegas.
