Simon Pegg says he and the rest of the cast and crew on the Mission: Impossible series are always legitimately concerned whenever Tom Cruise does one of his death-defying stunts.
In July of 2023, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One will be released. Several vignettes and promos have gone viral in the build-up to the release and a lot of the marketing has focused on Cruise going over the edge of a cliff on a motorcycle wearing a parachute.
It seems that the A-lister attempts to outdo himself with every entry in the franchise, having previously scaled the Burj Khalifa and hung off the side of a plane while it takes off.
Pegg, who has been part of the series since Mission: Impossible 3 as the character of Benji Dunn, admits his heart is in his mouth like the rest of us when he sees Tom become an adrenaline junkie.
"You know, I'm lucky because Benji just kind of stays behind the computer and he does his thing," he told Deadline.
"Tom is jumping off cliffs on a motorbike, you know, he's hanging off trains – it's genuinely dangerous stuff.
"There's always a sense that, you know, one day, something might go wrong... we might lose Tom, you know. Anytime there's a big stunt, we all have that sense of, you know, fear, but he always pulls it off."
The first stunt on Dead Reckoning Part One
Unbelievably, the motorcycle stunt was the first thing filmed for the movie.
“Doing that on Day One gave us all the time in the world to understand why he was doing what he was doing,” director Christopher McQuarrie told Empire.
“If we sat around and tried to figure out these movies the old-fashioned way, you’d never find it, simply because it’s such a living, breathing thing."
“It’s never the easy road,” Cruise added. “I have a responsibility to audiences, the studio, my crew, my cast and industry. We can’t compromise just because all of these things happened. I can’t compromise the storytelling.”
Joining Cruise and Pegg in the cast is Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, Henry Czerny and Pom Klementieff.
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