The production team built the train and the director, Christopher McQuarrie, said: “There was not a surplus of trains available to be wrecked, so we had to build the train if we wanted to destroy it. That’s how Tom likes to do things,” Morales said. “I’ve done fight scenes but to do them on a moving train was trial by fire. The film’s other set-piece stunt takes place aboard a moving train at 60mph, as Cruise fights a villain played by Esai Morales. Wade Eastwood, the stunt coordinator, called it “pretty much the biggest stunt in cinema history” and Cruise performed it six times in order to get the perfect shots. His training involved making over 500 skydives and more than 13,000 motocross jumps before the scene was shot in Norway. The cliff stunt was filmed in Norway and was something the actor said he had dreamed of doing since he was a child. I hope to keep making Mission: Impossible films until I’m his age,” said Cruise. The actor rides a motorbike off a cliff then base jumps hundreds of feet to the ground, a stunt which took a year of training.Īt 61, Tom Cruise could be forgiven for stepping back, but he said at the film’s Australian premiere that he hoped to be “still going” in his 80s like Ford, who recently completed his final Indiana Jones movie.

Tom Cruise has said he hopes to continue making Mission: Impossible films into his 80s, equalling Harrison Ford’s record as an action hero.Ĭruise famously performs his own stunts in the franchise, and the latest instalment features what is being billed as the most dangerous one he has ever attempted.

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