{"id":1968808,"date":"2025-08-19T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1968808"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:15:09","slug":"impossible-the-final-reckoning-stunt-almost-broke-his-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/impossible-the-final-reckoning-stunt-almost-broke-his-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Impossible \u2014 The Final Reckoning&#8217; stunt almost broke his back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F08%2F109799556.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It would have really been his final reckoning.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Cruise almost broke his back filming a scene in \u201cMission: Impossible \u2014 The Final Reckoning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tom-cruise-mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning-stunt-almost-broke-back-11786167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entertainment Weekly\u2019s preview <\/a>of bonus content from the action film\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/19\/entertainment\/heres-how-to-stream-mission-impossible-8-at-home-now\/\">digital release<\/a>, Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie watched the iconic plane fight scene between Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and Gabriel (Esai Morales) that nearly had serious real-life ramifications for Cruise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, this almost broke my back,\u201d Cruise, 63, said in the commentary of the scene, which featured Ethan hanging from the wing of Gabriel\u2019s (Esai Morales) 1930s biplane.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tom Cruise in \u201cMission: Impossible \u2014 The Final Reckoning.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re talking about a lot pain here,\u201d added McQuarrie, 56.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Cruise, who does his own stunts, explained that hanging from the plane was \u201cpunishing,\u201d adding, \u201cI need my whole body going. I have to somehow fly to him to hit him. How are we gonna do it? I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie on the \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d set. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the scene showed Ethan dangling from a seatbelt while the plane is upside down, Cruise admitted, \u201cOh God, that was brutal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis separated the joints in Tom\u2019s fingers from the force,\u201d McQuarrie explained. \u201cSo by the time we finished this sequence, your hands were absolutely swollen. Oh my God, it was so painful to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tom Cruise hanging from a plane in \u201cMission: Impossible 8.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tom Cruise almost broke his back filming this scene in \u201cMission: Impossible \u2014 The Final Reckoning.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once the pair watched Ethan slam into the side of the plane, Cruise recalled, \u201cOh, that was brutal. That hit, that was a hard one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_18-0\">\u201cAnd you improvised that, thank you very much. I appreciate that,\u201d McQuarrie told the movie star. \u201cYou were like, \u2018I think we\u2019re gonna need that,\u2019 and I was like, \u2018I didn\u2019t ask you to do that.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in a scene from \u201cMission: Impossible 8.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cruise\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/15\/entertainment\/is-mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning-really-the-end-tom-cruise-may-have-revealed-answer\/\">eighth and supposed final \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d movie<\/a> was released in May and made nearly $600 million at the worldwide box office. <\/p>\n<p>The film follows Cruise\u2019s Ethan and his IMF team race against the clock and across the globe to stop the Entity, a rogue AI, from destroying all of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Tramell Tillman and Angela Bassett also star.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Pom Klementieff, Greg Tarzan Davis, Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg and Hayley Atwell in \u201cMission: Impossible \u2014 The Final Reckoning.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In February, Cruise revealed that he passed out filming the airplane scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you stick your face out, going over 120 to 130 miles an hour, you\u2019re not getting oxygen,\u201d he told\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/mission-impossible-final-reckoning-stunts-melt-your-brain-exclusive\/\">Empire<\/a>. \u201cSo I had to train myself how to breathe. There were times I would pass out physically; I was unable to get back into the cockpit.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><figcaption>Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie on the set of \u201cMission: Impossible 7.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tom Cruise with \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d director Christopher McQuarrie in 2023. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cruise, who has played Ethan Hunt since 1996\u2019s \u201cMission: Impossible,\u201d has said repeatedly that \u201cThe Final Reckoning\u201d marks the end of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em>It\u2019s the final,\u201d<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DJ2HKooxyWH\/?igsh=NGNvanhnc3Y1ZDd5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> he told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> at the film\u2019s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May. \u201cIt\u2019s not called \u2018Final\u2019 for nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would have really been his final reckoning. Tom Cruise almost broke his back filming a scene in \u201cMission: Impossible \u2014 The Final Reckoning.\u201d In Entertainment Weekly\u2019s preview of bonus content from the action film\u2019s digital release, Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie watched the iconic plane fight scene between Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and Gabriel (Esai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1968809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[326620,344970,21741,21993,21912,347963,33293],"class_list":["post-1968808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-action-movies","tag-christopher-mcquarrie","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-movies","tag-stunts","tag-tom-cruise"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Impossible-\u2014-The-Final-Reckoning-stunt-almost-broke-his-back.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}