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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Philip Oltermann in Cannes

‘We couldn’t tell if he was conscious’: Tom Cruise got stuck on top of biplane shooting Mission: Impossible sequel

‘It’s just an emotion for me’ … Tom Cruise in a scene from Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.
‘It’s just an emotion for me’ … Tom Cruise in a scene from Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy

Tom Cruise got stuck on the wing of a biplane shortly before it ran out fuel during the filming of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the director of the eighth instalment of the action franchise has revealed.

Speaking to an audience at the Cannes film festival hours before the film’s premiere, director Christopher McQuarrie recounted the filming of a stunt sequence in which Cruise, in his long-running role as the field agent Ethan Hunt, walked between between the two wings of a biplane as the aircraft was mid-air over South Africa.

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