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”.
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.— Image credit: Paramount Pictures and Skydance.
“I don’t want to get blown off that ramp. And once I hit it, I don’t want that drone to hit me, you know? And then when my chute opens and you can see it in EPK when I’m in the bowl and I was testing the wind in that bowl and I jumped out of the helicopter… you can see when I opened it, I was in the wrong position and I opened the parachute, and the parachute turned into the side of the mountain,” he added of the stunt that almost ended with a catastrophe.