Tom Cruise has been known to be a daredevil when it comes to cinema. Some might even call him a maverick, especially after the 2025 movie Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning saw him flying pretty high for the stunt of a lifetime on the side of a plane. That apparently wasn’t the only thing the star was doing, however, as co-writer/director Christopher McQuarrie revealed another earned credit for Cruise’s resume: cinematographer.
During a talk that saw both collaborators on hand at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (via That Shelf’s YouTube channel,) it was revealed that the ever intrepid leading man was truly an army of one while shooting some of those painful Mission biplane stunts. McQuarrie started to share that knowledge with the crowd with an anecdote, saying
