It is well known that Tom Cruise with full confidence the most daring actor in all of hollywood. From the beginning of his film career, Cruise managed to be his own stunt double; and today, at 59 years old, that hasn’t changed much. After all, he was the protagonist of the most risky scenes Top Shooter: Maverickthe last production with the participation of his talent.
However, while it’s hard to believe, Tom Cruise isn’t as invincible as all of his films make us believe, even though these stories almost prove otherwise. We know for sure that the actor is about to die. during the filming of some of the productions, and it is in honor of his risk and courage today that we came to present you with a list of 5 films that led Cruise to real danger.
from the very beginning the best weaponbefore Mission impossible. Tom Cruise has a lot to say on the sets of his productions, and some of them are more painful than we would like. Of course, keep in mind that this list will include spoilersso proceed with caution.
Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Let’s start with one of the most disturbing stories in Cruise’s repertoire. During the show Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocolrecorded in 2011, we see Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) trying to climb the facade of a skyscraper 830 meters high, using only the suction cup to climb the glass facade. This scene took place in the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, located in the city of Dubai.
As usual for Cruise, the actor decided it would be best if he did the climb himself. To do this, he armed himself with a harness and prepared for it. Everything was already “pretty well planned”, but the wind that could be at such an altitude did not seem to have been taken into account. According to both the actor and the director Ghost Protocol, the wind caused Cruz to repeatedly hit the front of the building.
Needless to say about the danger of repeated hits at such a height. Luckily, the situation has not worsened. However, the actor commented during an interview that he could only think about that at the moment, “I hope I don’t fall.”
One night, after one of the first days of filming, I jumped out of bed realizing our star was hanging a mile up on a thin wire and my brain was screaming, “What the hell? What are we doing? everything is long and scary, but we planned everything well.
Brad Bird, Director Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol
thunder days
Although Cruz usually learns and follows every step his action instructors recommend, there was a film where it seemed to the professional that the actor did not fully understand the situation. It’s about the movie thunder daysand NASCAR veteran Hut Stricklin revealed that Cruz did not fully understand the instructions given to him just before filming began.
As a result, Cruz went out of control in his car. Later, he crashed into one of the obstacles. while everyone present could do nothing but watch. The story had a happy ending, namely that Cruz was unharmed. Meanwhile, the video equipment installed in the car did not suffer the same fate.
I think I saw guys squirming left and right on TV. He was turning left, the car was turning left. But when he turned right… [choque].
Stricklin’s hut for For victory
Top Gun (1986)
Much is made of the latest version of this film. AT Top Shooter: Maverick we saw Tom Cruise as energetic as he was 36 years ago, and this, too, was the best premiere in his history. However, although the Maverick was not free from danger, It was in the original version the best weapon where many thought that Tom Cruise would not live to tell about it.
The scenes of this film were so violent that they even led to the death of one of the pilots. Cruise was about to join in, and the fact is that during the scene where Goose, our protagonist’s best friend, dies, the actor had to carry the “inert” body of his co-pilot, struggling to stay afloat in the middle of the ocean. The problem here is that Cruise was still tied to his parachute, which began to quickly fill with water and sink in the middle of the sea..
Luckily for the actor, one of the people on set noticed what was happening. He jumped in and quickly untied Cruz before he drowned. along with your parachute. Had it sunk, it is likely that they would never have heard of it again.
Cruz came as close to death on set as anyone I have ever seen.
They were filling the chamber or something, and luckily one of the men in the helicopter saw his parachute deflate. He jumped and released Cruise shortly before he sank. They would never find him. It would be at the bottom of the ocean.Barry Tubb (Wolfman), for New York Post
The Last Samurai
Tom Cruise nearly went crazy on set The Last Samurai…literally. During the filming of the film in 2003. a motion error almost took his head off from rennet to our favorite actor.
During one of Cruz’s duels against Hiroyuki Sanada, they both rode mechanical horses. The shooting plan was to have one of those horses stop just before Sanada threw Cruz in the neck, but due to some mistake, that didn’t happen. throw straight at the actor the best weapon on the edge of the metal.
The entire crew thought Cruise was going to be beheaded., but fortunately, Sanada managed to draw his sword in time. If he hadn’t, it’s likely that we wouldn’t be lucky enough to see Top Shooter: Maverick some days ago.
Mission Impossible (1996)
During one of the scenes in the first movie Mission impossibleTom Cruise had to face one of the most dangerous moments – so far – in his career. In statements to Los Angeles Timesthe actor comments on how it all happened.
There was a scene where we blew up these tanks, huge aquariums, thousand-liter tanks. First they’re going to blow up the tank [de dos metros] behind me and then they’re going to blow up the tank upstairs. And if I get there, you know, it will hurt me a lot … Then a big crowd is watching me, and I don’t want to be dusted. Count: “One, two”; my adrenaline is running high, and on “two” I hear the first explosion and stand there with all my might, and on the third, I’m gone, and it’s a wall of water. Then the water rushes in and I have to run faster than the water, glass is everywhere and I have to jump on some guy.
Tom Cruise
Cruz left the scene with a bruised ankle, though he didn’t want to complain. Cause? One of the doubles ended with a severed legso he was rather lucky to finish filming safe and sound.
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