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Mission: Impossible 7 star Tom Cruise has recalled the filming of one particularly dangerous stunt for the new blockbuster.
In the past, the Mission: Impossible franchise has seen Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt do everything from scaling the Burj Khalifa to clinging onto the side of an airborne plane, and Mission: Impossible 7 will be no different, with on-set pictures hinting at plenty more big stunts to come.
In the latest issue of Empire Magazine, the actor-cum-daredevil opened up about one of the upcoming film's new stunts, in which Tom Cruise (as Ethan) will be seen riding his motorcycle off the edge of a cliff - a dangerous stunt that left Cruise with plenty of technical considerations as he filmed it.
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"If the wind was too strong, it would blow me off the ramp," he shared. "The helicopter [filming the stunt] was a problem, because I didn't want to be hammering down that ramp at top speed and get hit by a stone.
"Or if I departed in a weird way, we didn't know what was going to happen with the bike," Cruise continued.
"I had about six seconds once I departed the ramp to pull the chute and I don't want to get tangled in the bike. If I do, that's not going to end well."
Talk about suffering for your art.
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Alongside filming the stunt, the 58-year-old admitted during the interview that he also felt a great sense of relief to be in production again, given that the coronavirus pandemic had a serious impact on the film industry in 2020, with M:I7's production one of the first to be postponed amid COVID-19 fears.
"All those emotions were going through my mind. I was thinking about the people I work with, and my industry," noted Cruise. "And for the whole crew to know that we'd started rolling on a movie was just a huge relief.
"It was very emotional, I gotta tell you."
Mission: Impossible 7 currently has a scheduled release date of May 27, 2022.
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