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Dirk Libbey

That Time Free Solo's Alex Honnold Called Out Tom Cruise For Not Doing All Of His Own M:I Stunts

Tom Cruise props himself up in a crevace with a look of concern in Mission: Impossible 2.

If there’s one thing we all know about Hollywood, it’s that Tom Cruise does all his own stunts. He’s climbed buildings and ridden motorcycles off cliffs, and he’s fired insurance companies who wouldn’t let him do all his own stunts. And yet, Free Solo’s Alex Honnold just low-key called out the Mission: Impossible star for a stunt he maybe didn’t do.

Honnold, who recently followed in Cruise's footsteps by climbing a building on Netflix, recently appeared on the podcast Hassan Manaj Doesn’t Know, where the topic of another famous free climb was discussed: the intro scene in Mission: Impossible II. Manaj asked how it felt that Cruise could do the same thing he did, and Honnold indicated Cruise didn’t actually do that stunt, saying:

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