When it comes to his death-defying Mission: Impossible stunts, Tom Cruise approaches them with the utmost care. We wrote at length about the amount of preparation that went into that terrifying motorcycle jump off of a cliff. And he has walked us through numerous eye-popping stunts that were part of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One alone… forget about the entire franchise. When it came to the one-handed Fiat car chase that has been featured in the various Dead Reckoning trailers, though, Cruise says he had an unexpected concern because of filming in Rome.
The Mission: Impossible team did an extensive press tour in Rome in the lead up to the eventual release of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One. And Tom Cruise joined his director, Christopher McQuarrie, to break down some of the obstacles that came with shooting the Fiat stunt sequence. In that scene, McQuarrie ups the ante by having Cruise handcuffed to his co-star, Hayley Atwell. Which made driving that much harder. And in the process, Cruise said it presented this unexpected challenge:
