When the trailer of Mission Impossible Rogue Nation got released, fans were shocked to see Tom Cruise perform the deadly airplane stunt. Months before the trailer dropped, pictures from the shoot went viral on social media as Tom Cruise who plays Ethan Hunt loves doing the stunts all by himself. Yes, you read it right! The airplane stunt is not performed by a body double by Tom Cruise himself! The crew advised Tom Cruise to not do the stunt by himself as it is life risky. They even wanted to use body doubles who are experienced in this daring stunts.
However, Tom decided to go with the adrenaline rush at RAF Wittering, near Stamford, Lincolnshire. In the footage, Tom Cruise is seen clinging onto a plane as it soars 5,000 ft in the air. In a death-defying scene, Tom Cruise clambers from a door of the Airbus A400M Atlas military transporter as it takes off and then holds on as it circles at 250 mph. “You would never hang a multimillion dollar star from a plane in the normal world, but Tom wanted to be on the outside of that plane,” the movie’s stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood explains of the star’s persistence to execute the dangerous plane hang himself.
Tom too was scared and revealed, “I couldn’t sleep the night before and then came the day. I was like, ‘Okay, this is really gonna happen.’ I’m feeling the force of the wind hit me. I’m actually scared sh**less,” Tom says in the video. Do not worry as sources say that he was wearing a harness that was attached to the plane.
