{"id":72722,"date":"2025-05-06T06:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=72722"},"modified":"2025-05-29T06:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:26:14","slug":"how-did-tom-cruise-react-to-his-wildest-mission-impossible-stunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/how-did-tom-cruise-react-to-his-wildest-mission-impossible-stunts\/72722\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did Tom Cruise React to His Wildest Mission: Impossible Stunts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Mission: Impossible<\/em> series gears up for what might be its grand finale, The Final Reckoning<\/em>, hitting theaters May 23, longtime co-star Simon Pegg is taking a moment to reflect on some of Tom Cruise\u2019s most jaw-dropping stunts\u2014and how Cruise handles the crazy risks in real time.<\/p>\n

Since joining the franchise back in 2006\u2019s Mission: Impossible III<\/em>, Pegg has been not only on screen as Benji Dunn but also a firsthand witness to Cruise\u2019s insane daredevil antics. One moment that really stuck with Pegg happened during 2011\u2019s Ghost Protocol<\/em>, when Cruise climbed the Burj Khalifa\u2014the tallest building on the planet. Pegg watched through a window as Cruise dangled high above Dubai, grinning like a kid on the world\u2019s most extreme roller coaster, clearly loving every second of it.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not all fearless smiles. Pegg recalls seeing Cruise genuinely nervous for the first time while filming the heart-stopping plane scene in Rogue Nation<\/em>, where Cruise clings to a speeding military jet. \u201cThat was the first time I\u2019d seen him nervous,\u201d Pegg says. \u201cThere were so many things that could have gone wrong.\u201d Cruise himself later admitted he had second thoughts just as the plane was rolling down the runway, thinking, \u201cMaybe this wasn\u2019t such a good idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most intense moment for Pegg came on the set of Dead Reckoning Part One<\/em> (2023), when Cruise rode a motorcycle off a cliff and then parachuted mid-air. Pegg and the crew waited with bated breath for the radio call, \u201cgood canopy\u201d\u2014the sign that Cruise\u2019s parachute had opened safely.<\/p>\n

Despite the hair-raising stunts and close calls, Cruise\u2019s commitment never falters. \u201cHe literally risks his life for the audience,\u201d Pegg says, confessing that he often tells Cruise, \u201cYou\u2019re absolutely nuts.\u201d But that mix of respect and disbelief makes their on-screen chemistry even better. Pegg says he enjoys playing the \u201caudience surrogate,\u201d the guy who watches and thinks, \u201cThis is crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning<\/em> just around the corner, fans are in for more edge-of-your-seat thrills\u2014and plenty of those classic Tom Cruise grins. Whether dangling off skyscrapers or braving jet blasts, Cruise\u2019s fearless stunt legacy is something Pegg\u2014and all of us\u2014won\u2019t forget anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Mission: Impossible series gears up for what might be its grand finale, The Final Reckoning, hitting theaters May\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":72723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[875],"class_list":["post-72722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-tom-cruise"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}