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Tom Cruisegave two hikers quite the spectacle.
A husband-and-wife pair, Jason and Sarah Haygarth, recentlytoldExtraabout encountering the movie star while on a walk at a “very remote” and “quite hilly” U.K. national park called Lake District with their dog. They noticed that there were helicopters over one area, which was unusual.
It turned out Cruise, 60, was filming one of his daring stunt sequences for his upcomingMission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning.
After Sarah and Jason got the all clear to continue their hike, the couple stumbled on Cruise “strapping himself into a paraglider.”
“I could tell it was him straight away,” Sarah toldExtra. “By the time we got there, people were talking aboutMission: Impossiblewas being filmed … but I was expecting a stunt double.”
“He apologized first for the noise. ‘Sorry, guys, I know we spoiled your walk with the noise,’ " Jason said Cruise told them. Added Sarah, “And then he said, ‘I like your dog.’ "
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“We asked, ‘What are you doing?’ Then he said, ‘I’m going to jump off.’ I was like, ‘You’re going to dowhat?’ He said, ‘I’m going to jump off,’ " Jason recounted. “… Just before he jumped off, he said, ‘See ya! Hopefully this goes well,’ and we said, ‘Good luck, Tom.’ " The Sunshared footageof Cruise jumping from the cliff for the stunt scene.
TheTop Gun: Maverickactor spoke during apanelat the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year about how he’s been adaredevil from a young age.
“I think I was about 4½ years old, and I had this doll, and you throw it up in the air and a parachute comes down. I played with this thing, and I’d throw it off a tree, and I was like, ‘I really want to do this.’ I remember taking the sheets off my bed, and I would tie a rope … and I climbed up to the eave, and I got up to the roof. I looked and my mother was in the kitchen — she had four kids — and I jumped off the roof,” he recalled.
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“It’s that moment when you jump off the roof and you go, ‘This is not gonna work. This is terrible. I’m gonna die.’ And I hit the ground so hard. Luckily, it was wet. I don’t know how it happened, but I figured out after that my face went past my feet as my ass hit the ground. And I saw stars in the daytime for the first time, and I remember looking up, going, ‘This is very interesting.’ "
Reflecting on how his stuntman skills have improved over time, Cruise added, “Now, here I am on a movie set … but I was the kid who would climb to the rafters or climb the tallest tree. I wanted that, I wanted to do that, and how do I develop these skills and make it part of the story and character?”
As for why he performs his own stunts, the actor joked, “No one asked Gene Kelly, ‘Why do you dance? Why do you do your dancing? Why do you do your own singing?’ If I do a musical, I want to sing and I want to dance. And I want to see how I can do it.”
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1, the franchise’s seventh installment, is in theaters July 14, 2023.
source: people.com
