In an interview, Tom Cruise spoke about filming the new “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”, which is scheduled to come to German cinemas on May 21. He told how huge some of his stunts were in the eighth continuation of the actioner and what they did with him.
An imposition that he did not take
The actor revealed the blatant to “Empire”: In one scene, Tom Cruise should stick to a flying double-decker from the 1930s. As usual for him, you will ultimately not see a stunt double but him. “If you stretch out your face at over 130 to 210 km/h per hour, you don’t get oxygen,” he explained in conversation. “So I had to teach myself how to breathe. Sometimes I passed out. Then I was unable to get back to the cockpit. “
Christopher McQuarrie, who has now written the script for the fourth time in a row and directed “Mission Impossible”, was also interviewed by “Empire”. He stated that Tom Cruise ‘performance was remarkable for the new part. “There are stunts in this film that let your brain melt,” said Mcquarrie. And further: “I really want to throw up when I think of the stress during the recordings. It was violent. “
Stunt over stunt over stunt
With a stunt from “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” (2018), Tom Cruise could not breathe. It was the so-called Halo jump.
For understanding: Halo is carried out by special military units and stands for “High Altitude, Low Opening”: At the parachute jump, a person jumps out of an airplane between seven and a half and 13 km. It only opens its parachute at a height of 240 m.
According to the “National Air and Space” museum If an average parachutist only jumps up to a height of four and a half km and opens its parachute at 900 m.
One of the greatest concerns in this stunt was that you could lose oxygen when jumping from such a height. Apparently a special helmet was made to enable cruise the stunt. At the same time, the helmet served as an oxygen mask and windshield to protect its face. “The aircraft C-17 flies between 260 and 320 km/h,” said Cruise. “We only had one recording a day. I spent the whole day with the training, and at night we had one recording, and if there was a mistake, it was. The recording was gone. ”All in all, they needed more than 100 recordings and thus over three months.