Here's how Tom Cruise filmed the crazy plane-hanging stunt in the new 'Mission: Impossible'
Tom Cruise has always boasted that he does his own stunts.
Whether it's driving a race car in "Days of Thunder," battling enemies with a samurai sword in "The Last Samurai"...
"The Last Samurai"
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In the much-hyped trailer, Cruise, reprising his role as IMF agent Ethan Hunt, ends up on a giant Airbus A400M plane and is hanging from the door as it takes off.
But that's not Tom Cruise's style.
"I knew I wanted to have an airplane sequence. I've been thinking about it for a long time," Cruise told Yahoo Movies UK during an interview with director Christopher McQuarrie. "As a kid I remember flying on an airplane and thinking: 'what would it be like out on the wing or on the side of the airplane?!'"
So after eight takes on a runway in England, Cruise's childhood dream finally came true.
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When the production designer brought McQuarrie a model of an Airbus plane, the director joked to Cruise, "What if you were on the outside of this thing when it took off?' Cruise replied, "Yeah, I could do that."
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"You have jet fuel coming right out of the back at me because I'm on the wing of the engine," he said. "Even when we were taxying I was also inhaling the fumes and [it] was going in my eyes."
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"I remember one time we were going down the runway and there was just a little particle that just hit me, it was smaller than a finger nail," Cruise recalls. "I was thankful it didn't hit my hands or face, if it did I'd have a problem because those parts were exposed, but it still could have broken my ribs!"
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Cruise notes that he was strapped to the side of the plane from the moment the engine started to the moment it landed and the engine shut down - "The climb, the taxi, down the runway, getting the shot, leveling off, turning around and landing. And I did it EIGHT TIMES to get the shot."
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But when they got this shot, he said, "We're not doing it anymore!"
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