Mission: Impossible – The final director of networks shares the crazy details of Tom Cruise’s new acrobatics: “Nobody on Earth can do it”

AS Tom Cruise He continues to do his own stunts, also redefines what is physically possible for a human being. But also for its standards that challenge gravity, the last story of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning It seems absolutely unbridled … in the best way.

During a masterclass in Cannes, director Christopher Mcquarrie He revealed new details that torn a jaw on one of Cruise’s most intense stunts. And in the typical fashion Tom, it included flight alone in a vintage biplane of 10,000 feet on the African landscape.

No crew. No security network. Only cruise, sky and a lot of adrenaline. Mcquarrie said:

“When you look at Tom tonight, there is a moment when he is in an airplane. He is in a biplane, completely only at the controls, and his biplane suffers a little damage. Spoiler, there is tension in this scene.”

But it becomes even wilder. According to Mcquarrie, Cruise was not only piloting the plane, it was literally the entire cinematographic crew for the scene.

“Tom is illuminating the shot from the way he is positioning the plane and his relationship with the sun, and is opening the concentration just outside the camera. It is the crew in every single blow you are seeing. And nobody tells you to stop.”

There was a way to communicate, a radio. But when Cruise left the piloting cabin and walked on the wing, that line of life was also cut. The professional wing they consulted explicitly felt not to do it. Cruise’s answer? “Thanks for your time,” Mcquarrie recalled. It was a cruise language for “I’m doing it anyway”.

Without any radio connection, Mcquarrie had to pilot a helicopter along the plane, hoping that Cruise could see its signals by hand. This meant that Mcquarrie himself had to protrude from his chopper halfway through the flight, clinging to the edge of the open door. But the real punishment was what Cruise endured outside that pilot cabin. Mcquarrie said:

“When you leave the piloting cabin of the plane, it is like climbing the surface of another planet. The wind is hitting over 140 miles per hour that comes out of the propeller. The molecules in the air are so dispersed. You are breathing, but only physically. In reality you are not getting oxygen.”

Tempism was fundamental as the cruise had about 12 minutes before its body began to break in the conditions, as “two hours in the gym”, observed Mcquarrie. “Tom, being the perfectionist who is, would arrive at about 12 minutes and leaned out of the door to the helicopter, and Tom went, ’13 minutes. ‘”

But then the most frightening part came. The cruise hit a wall. He was so physically emptied, he couldn’t get up. It was lying on the wing, the arms draped on the edge, totally motionless. Mcquarrie admitted:

“We couldn’t say if he was conscious or not. You can’t do it when you are unconscious. So we are waiting to see if there is any indication if Tom is fine.”

Oh, and the plane had only three minutes of fuel remained. It was that. “He has three minutes to get up, but he was on that wing for 20 minutes,” said Mcquarrie.

Then, the agitated cruise. He pulled up, got his head into the piloting cabin to regain oxygen, climbed inside and landed the plane safely. Mcquarrie said.

“Nobody on earth can do it.”

Holy shit. At this point, it is not even right to call these “acrobatics”. They are physical enterprises of madness that only Tom Cruise would dare to try.

Source: deadline