“Im jumping, and my foot wasnt right,” Cruise recalled.
“We want it in one shot, I gotta keep doing it.”
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Tom Cruisehas been sacrificing his body for your entertainment for even longer than we thought.
Tom Cruise in ‘Mission: Impossible 2’.Credit:Paramount Pictures
And I never mentioned it to anyone," Cruise recalled.
“Some of these injuries, whats the point?
You just keep going.
Tom Cruise at the Australian premiere of ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’.Lisa Maree Williams/Getty
So Im jumping, and my foot wasnt right.”
Cruise said that he pushed through the injury to ensure the footage looked as good as possible.
“John Woo was like, ‘Weve got the shot,'” Cruise remembered.
And thats the shot thats in the movie.
And the rock is very soft rock.
At certain times youre going, ‘Jesus, Im sliding, its breaking away.'"
“I was so scared I was sweating.
I couldn’t even watch the monitor when we shot it.”
Woo also said that the sequence was a logistical nightmare.
Cruise famouslysustained a different injurywhile shooting 2018’sMission: Impossible - Fallout.
An awkward landing ended up severely injuring his ankle: “I knew instantly it was broken.”
The actor’s injury ultimately forcedFallouttodelay production.
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Cruise returns for his supposedly finalMissioninMission: Impossible The Final Reckoning, which hits theaters May 23.
