Tom Cruise Reveals That Death-Defying ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Stunt Almost Ended In Disaster

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Tom Cruise famously does all of his own stunts, but one of them very nearly ended in disaster on the set of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”.

ET Canada’s Sangita Patel chatted to Cruise at the movie’s premiere in Rome, where she brought up engineering and the planning behind the death-defying stunt that saw Cruise ride his motorcycle off a cliff before jumping off and pulling a parachute to land safely. READ MORE: Tom Cruise Pulls Off ‘The Biggest Stunt In Cinema History’ In New ‘Mission: Impossible’ Behind-The-Scenes Promo Cruise shared when asked what’s going through his mind at that moment and how he keeps himself calm and focused, “It’s funny that you mentioned engineering, because there’s as you know, there’s a lot of engineering in there to figure out that ramp, where the bowl is, the speed, you know, we’re testing wind conditions early on, I set all that up.

That’s how I approach these things. “You know, I’m thinking, first of all, Mc Q [director Christopher McQuarrie] and I, we come up with something and then go, ‘how do we do it?’ and we break it down.

And luckily, like I’ve been skydiving for years and [riding] motorcycles and [doing] jumps, but you’ve got to hone it and make it perfect.