Tom Cruise shares the story behind his epic mission acrobatics: impossible 2

Tom Cruise He made his stunts for decades, from tightening to the side of a plane in half of the acquisitions to the downsizing of Burj Khalifa without a double acrobatic, his incessant search for the film show has become legendary.

But first of all this, there was Mission: Impossible 2Where Cruise introduced the public to his love for madness with the sequence of free will enriched in the Utah Moab desert at the beginning of the film.

It opens with Ethan Hunt randomly reducing a rocky face without any rope. It is a moment that immediately gave the film to the film and became one of the many iconic shots in Mission: Impossible franchise. But, as Cruise recently reflected, getting that blow was not as smooth as its climb.

From the beginning, Cruise was adamant in opening the film with a climbing sequence. But getting there wasn’t easy. Mission: Impossible 2 He was shot mainly in Australia, where time refused to collaborate.

Cruise said: “He rained for 40 days. I felt like Noah, and the study was like ‘listen, because of the rain and [because] The program is over, we find another opening to the film. “Every day people came with different shots. I was like” I don’t know how to open the movie “.

Determined to stay with his vision, Cruise pushed through the sequence. But when he arrived in Utah after a brutal journey from Australia, the conditions were not much better.

He said: “So, now we are in the winter months in Moab, I flew all the way by Australia and there are twenty of galleys. So we can’t even have my crew on the mountain.

“I pushed the study for the opening of this film and you can’t even get there to set the camera. I am so exhausted by the jet lag, and I don’t know how to call the study, and I am not shooting and feel the pressure to shoot something, and for six months they wanted them to change the sequence opening. “

So, just when things seemed impossible, nature finally played. Cruise added: “And what happened is that I remember having woke up the next day, and I was just like,” you have to compare yourself. “And the sun was coming and the wind was disappeared and the temperatures had emerged. So I was like” let’s go to the top of the mountain and start shooting it now “.

This was long before the days of high -tech safety measures and radio communication. Cruise was not just performing acrobatics, he was literally going up to the position of the shot.

He continued: “This is in the days when you didn’t have the radio and I’m climbing free while I go to where I have to be for that opening shot.

“I had to get up, because after I had to go down, and if I fall, there is a cable that will take me, but I will come across the mountain. And the rock is a very soft rock. In certain moments you are going, “Jesus, I am slipping, is detaching”.

This is already more than most of the actors would have resisted willingly, but it has worsened even when the time has come to bring out the now famous “Iron Cross” moment in which the cruise is hung horizontally between two rocky formations.

“While I am doing the iron cross, I actually hung there, but it’s not entirely right and you can see it. I was like “Tell me just that this is the shot, because I can’t do it again.”

As if a dilapidated rocky face was not difficult enough, Cruise was also secretly breastfeeding a broken foot during one of the biggest jumps in the film.

“What people don’t know is that there is a section in which I am jumping high down, but my foot has been broken. And I never mentioned it to anyone. Some of these accidents, what is the point? Continues. So I’m jumping and my foot was not right. “

John WooThe director of the film was ready to go on. But Cruise was not satisfied until he nailed it in one shot.

“John Woo was like” we triggered. “I was like” no, we want it in one shot, I have to continue doing it. “And this is the shot that is in the film. But it was so fun to work with John, making that sequence, because I knew it was ours [marketing] countryside.”

I love this type of cinematographic stories behind the scenes! The feat in that film has practically placed the previous one for every acrobatics who challenged the gravity that would continue to perform in the franchise.

Source: Empire