Tom Cruise faced real torpedoes and a risky trap in mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Tom Cruise made a career redefining what is physically possible for an action star, but Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning He may have given his most intense brush with danger, and yes, he involved real torpedoes.

In a recent episode of The Empire Film Podcast, Stunt Coordinator Wade Eastwood He knocked down the exhausting submarine sequence of the film, which I have already seen three times, in which Ethan Hunt by Cruise navigates through the Sebastopol wreck to recover the entity source code and, in a real way, the production team did not falsified it. Eastwood said:

“The simplest thing in the world to do would have been to make Tom pass and react to the Siluri CG. It would have been so. But then you get CG bubbles paths and you have to combine the shots with dishes.

“You did all this extraordinary sequence [for] Real, and suddenly you are swimming and some of the audience is like, ‘no, we can see that it is cg. I am disconnected. ‘”

That disconnection is exactly what Cruise wanted to avoid. He is not only performing these stunts for the show, but he is doing it to keep the audience blocked in the experience. As Eastwood said:

“Tom does not want a disconnected audience. He doesn’t want to be deceived … he just wants to do it as much as possible. As an actor, he wants to react to these things, you know?”

Director Christopher Mcquarrie He pushed things even further, asking Eastwood to increase the number of torpedoes in the scene. They landed out of five. Everyone has been strongly tested, because as Eastwood clarified:

“If it is not controlled, we are not doing it.”

However, no quantity of control guarantees zero danger and the cruise has learned that in first person.

“It was trapped once. It wasn’t bad, because Tom can hold his breath for a long time. Even before he had finished being trapped, I was already taking away the thing from him.”

It’s just another reminder when you buy a ticket for a Tom Cruise movie. You are not just subscribing to a movie. You are subscribing to the closest thing to the theater that uses live death. Cruise wants to do everything really, is inside, body and soul … and apparently, with torpedoes.