Tom Cruise Reveals the BIGGEST Mission Impossible Stunt Yet | The Graham Norton Show

Mission Impossible, obviously, you pay your money, you want the big

stunt

s, the last time you were on the

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, you were hinting at this big scene in this movie that you spent years preparing, yeah, so I think you can tell us. a little bit more about that right now, I could tell you a little bit more. Well, I actually spent two years. McHugh and I were talking about a sequence and it's an aerial helicopter sequence and I wanted, I've studied, you know, a lot of different films. So when I went and got my helicopter license and we actually flew, yeah, I'm sure you see them flying helicopters before they flew without a license.

Previously you ask yourself if you are going too fast. I know, okay, then you get a license. Yeah, and then, you know, we start really working on the sequence to see what we can do practically. I mean, I think in terms of action, this is probably the greatest practical action movie ever made. When you look at the movies, there's no CGI, so We're Going Through Paris, the motorcycles, they're just full cars. You know, we're all doing our own

stunt

s and the helicopter sequence is incredibly exciting and very dangerous, so there's really only one country that would allow us to do it.

I had to build special camera equipment and for the helicopter, so I got my license and just trained in aerobatics and it's different. I fly aerobatics and airplanes, but helicopters are very different, so we fly very low, very close to the rock walls. a chase and I'm chasing, you know, Henry, in a sequence, we have some photos here, so now this is: there you are, this is the end of the sequence for the beginning, I think we have these photos. backwards I think not, I can't tell you right now, okay, he's part of, okay, well, I just think this might be due to the wrong victors, Henry, you're hanging over there, there's Henry, flying he's hanging out, he's not even flying a helicopter because we're doing aerobatics, he'd at least know my own destination, no, eventually I was on his tail about a foot from the tail rotor, sometimes I had no idea what those moments were like right I really thought it was cool that's how you say Tom Cruise lucky because he can really fly anyway here you are now I guess it must be after the next part because in the next picture you're outside so Someone must be flying that helicopter, it can't be, please, so it's you, I mean, it's you, yeah, but the next picture is one, it's just a beautiful picture, but it's crazy, so it's you, yeah, I mean, it's because you know Tom does it.

All of this means that you have to say yes, where you know you can't wait. They can't get these guys out of the specialist room. Do you know what they can achieve? Like in the helicopter. He loves it. that one hello oh we had a kleiner oh yeah we think this New Zealand winter and the doors are open you posted a photo you have a photo on your Instagram of you doing a trick that looks very painful it's B I think It's you going down a cliff. by your nipples you are being lowered down this 1,800 foot cliff.

I know I'm perfectly safe because the specialist team is absolutely fantastic. Eastwood's team is a dentist. They are really good. You trust the navel of the harness. I triple checked everything, but. It's still 1,800 feet, you walk so high and the boats at the bottom of the fjord are so big it looks like a painting, so you lose all notion of my fear and adrenaline from the height, you start to think if I had to do it. autumn, can I like a squirrel? I brought all the way to the water, maybe I'll only spray you two months, obviously, you know with the kid now, that makes the stunts harder, but even when you did the last movie you seemed pretty inadequate, I mean, no.

Did you get vertigo watching these, oh yeah, so I mean it's weird to say yes to being in one of these movies. Well, I didn't really know what I was saying yes to. Well, I don't really know what these movies were like. done so you know when I was on the camel in the desert very quickly and on the first day of filming, Tom, what did we do? We jump off a building. Yeah, the first day of filming, I think we have a photo of you, so that's it. me cursing and screaming the naughtiest words were ever in my ear, even in your ear, I'm so sorry, I swear, sir, I did it, I said I'm so sorry and then we jump and he looks at me and Tom Cruise like Welcome to Mission for all of us.

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