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Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible stunts are so convincing that his co-stars once thought he had fallen to his death
Simon Pegg didn’t realize Tom Cruise was performing a stunt during his Mission: Impossible – Fallout helicopter fall, and genuinely believed the actor had died
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Tom Cruise has quite the reputation for doing his own stunts. Reportedly, the actor likes to embrace even the most dangerous stuff, which is probably a headache for studios and their insurance companies.
It turns out that it’s also nerve-wracking for his co-stars. Imagine how you would feel if you saw one of your colleagues drop from a dangerous height. In fact, there’s one occasion where Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout co-stars thought he had died.
“It can be very nerve-wracking,” Simon Pegg says during a panel at Fan Expo Boston. “I remember once Rebecca [Ferguson] and I were in New Zealand, and we were just having a coffee, chatting with each other, and Tom was doing the scene in Fallout when he’s hanging from the helicopter, and nobody had told us that he was going to fall onto the bag that was underneath the helicopter.”
“Rebecca and I were just sort of talking, and Tom was doing his thing, you get used to it. And we both sort of look up and he fell. And we both went, ‘FUCK! Tom’s dead!’ But yeah, it gets kind of scary.”
Hey Tom? The next time you decide to drop from a helicopter, try to give your co-stars a heads up.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout is currently streaming on Paramount+, in case you want to watch the moment that terrified Pegg for yourself.
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