For more than 25 years, with each new installment in the Mission Impossible saga, Tom Cruise has set himself the goal of pushing his boundaries a little further. Performing stunts himself that would make any professional blush, he flirts with emptiness and death in all his films.
While Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 – where we get to see him jump off a cliff on a motorbike – hits theaters in a few days, back throw down, the prequel to the saga, which was released in 2018 and was broadcast tonight on M6. For this sixth feature film, Tom Cruise swooped down from a helicopter at a height of 600 meters and jumped from the plane 106 times for a truly breathtaking scene.
But while the actor pulled off all these stunts without a hitch, another stunt in the film turned out to be more difficult for him than expected. Indeed, two-thirds of the way through the film, as he chases Henry Cavill’s character through the streets of London and jumps from one building to another, we can literally see him break his right ankle.
To observe the fateful plan, which is therefore preserved in the film (even if the scene was shot several times with three cameras), you need to press pause at exactly 1 hour, 34 minutes and 37 seconds. Everything is obviously very fast, but in the images you see on the screen, Tom Cruise really breaks his leg.
A double fracture that forced production to stop for 7 weeks, time for Ethan Hunt’s interpreter to recover, as well as his right leg.
“I knew right away it was broken”he said later on the set Graham Norton By reviewing the sequence. But as we see in the film, this observation did not prevent him from completing the shooting.
Indeed, only after breaking his leg did Tom Cruise manage to climb onto the roof of the building and continue running with a limp for a few seconds. Ask professionalism, hard to do!
(Re)discover the trailer for Mission: Impossible – Deadly Counts Part 1, in theaters July 12…
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