We have a saying on Mission: Impossible movies: ‘Don’t be safe. Be competent”: Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise talks about the death-defying stunt in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning On September 6, 2020, the first day of principal photography on Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Tom Cruise drove a motorbike off a mountain. Specifically, he drove a custom-made Honda CRF 250 off a purpose-built ramp on the side of Norway’s Helsetkopen mountain, a vertiginous rock face sat some 1,200 metres above sea level. Then he plunged 4,000 feet into the ravine below before opening his parachute barely 500 feet from the ground. When he landed, director, Christopher McQuarrie, and the small crew of his Mission co-stars who had assembled to watch the seminal cinematic sequence from the safety of video village, breathed a collective sigh of relief. Then Cruise picked himself up and did it all again another seven times, just to make sure the footage was perfect. Talking about the stunt, Tom Cruise says, “Every time I went off the ramp, it was dangerous. It was...