At 62 years old, Tom Cruise has done a remarkable job staying fit for his movie roles. Anyone remotely familiar with the actor knows he does his own stunts, and that doesn’t look like it’ll end anytime soon even with the Mission: Impossible film series wrapping up last year. So it’s rather fitting that CinemaBlend learned that when Cruise visited the NCIS: Origins set last October, he had advice for the actors on the CBS program about doing action sequences as they’re aging.
I learned about this from Leroy Jethro Gibbs actor Austin Stowell during an interview focused around the episode “Feelin’ Alright?”, which aired this past Tuesday on the 2026 TV schedule and showed the first official meeting between Gibbs and Dwayne Pride. After discussing the episode, I asked Stowell what it was like meeting Cruise, as he was one of several cast and crew members who were photographed with the Hollywood star. He started off by saying:
