Five actors who do their own stunts, after Tom Cruise sets the gold standard in Mission: Impossible 6
Superstar Cruise has long insisted on doing his own stunt work in the Mission: Impossible series; that has included scaling the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa in Dubai, with suction cups. Here are some others who do their own
The reviews are in, and Mission: Impossible – Fallout thrills, with many chalking up the film’s success, in part, to eye-popping stunt work by Tom Cruise.
Tom Cruise has long insisted on doing his own stunt work, which in the always exciting Mission: Impossible series has brought his stunt work to ever greater heights – literally. In 2011’s Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, Cruise trained for months to scale the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, with suction cups – to run back down the building sideways in a later scene.
The next film in the globe-trotting series, 2015’s Mission : Impossible Rogue Nation, saw Cruise dangling from the side of an Airbus A400 plane over the English countryside.
Over the years, Cruise has suffered a number of on-set injuries and endured near-death experiences. For this sixth Mission: Impossible film the 56-year-old broke an ankle in a jump scene gone wrong. Cruise is hardly the only action star to perform most of his or her own feats of daring. We take a look at five others who took the leap and had audiences going: “Wow.”