Mission Impossible 7: You won’t believe it, Tom Cruise refused to do a stunt!

He jumped off a cliff with a motorcycle, flew in a helicopter or underwater… It’s impossible Tom Cruise isn’t, that’s his credo! If he repeatedly put his life in danger on the set of various episodes of Mission Impossible, the 60-year-old actor refused to do a particular stunt on the set of Opus 7: Dead Reckoning.

Tom Cruise and his co-stars are on a worldwide tour currently promoting the film, which opens in France on July 12. to the microphoneEntertainment WeeklyFrenchman Pom Klementief revealed a delicious anecdote.

The actress who played Mantis in Guardians of the Galaxy plays Paris in Dead Reckoning, opposite Ethan Hunt.

During the filming in Venice, Tom Cruise and the actress were in the center of the fight scene. Ethan Hunt had to punch his partner hard in the stomach. To make the sequence as realistic as possible, Pom Klementieff asked Cruise not to hold back.

I kept telling him, he kicked me in the stomach. I held her stomach tightly and said: “You can go!” But he said, “No, no, no, no, no!”

“I was telling him to punch me in the stomach. I was holding his stomach and saying, ‘You can go!’ But he was like, ‘No, no, no, no, no’! I tried to convince him. I told him it would help but he wouldn’t do it.”– said the French actor.

According to Klementieff, his character destroys everything in his path. “He’s a rebel, a killer, he’s extremely talented and quite a loner”, he explained. See you on July 12th for the new Mission Impossible if you get it!

Note that the second part of Dead Reckoning will be released on June 26, 2024. Will this be the 8th installment in the final saga? According to director Christopher McQuarrie, episode 9 is not out of the question!

Also, will Tom Cruise commit a betrayal in Mission Impossible with a sequel to one of his best films? The future will tell you! The 60-year-old American comedian still has a few pedals under his belt!