‘Mission: Impossible 7′ Actor Shea Whigham Was Surprised by Tom Cruise’s Death-Defying Stunts: He Really ‘Does Everything Himself’
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor When Shea Whigham signed on for “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One,” he was sure he’d learn that some of Tom Cruise’s death-defying stunt work involved “smoke and mirrors.” How wrong he was. “He does everything himself.
He really does,” Whigham told me at the “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” premiere. Whigham had to get in on the action too – although nothing was as drastic as Cruise’s already iconic motorcycle drive off a mountain in Iceland. “I do all my own driving in it,” he said. “There’s no stunt driving.
We went hard in Rome. We also chased Tom on foot a lot in Venice. I pulled muscles left and right. I’m still recovering.” Cruise recently told Entertainment Tonight that he insisted on shooting the motorcycle-mountain stunt on day one of filming. “Well, we know either we will continue with the film or we’re not.
Let’s know day one! Let us know day one what is going to happen: Do we all continue or is it a major rewrite?” He continued, “I was training and I was ready.
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