14 DAY TRIAL // Tom Cruise no longer has the spotless reputation he had before he became the official “spokesperson” for the Church of Scientology, but there’s one thing not even this association can take from him: his fearlessness and his dedication in performing his own stunts.
At the end of the month, on July 31, 2015, the actor returns in theaters with the latest “Mission: Impossible” installment, “Rogue Nation.”
Because in the previous film, “Ghost Protocol,” he had climbed the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, even though producers assured him the scene could be shot against a green backdrop and then created in post-production to look real, for “Rogue Nation,” he had to step up his game.
So he tied himself to the side of an Airbus A400M plane and it took off with him hanging loose. Should anything have gone bad, he had no way of getting inside the plane or getting any kind of help because he was all alone there.
More impressive than this is the fact that he did it 8 times. He admits that he was scared senseless, but he did it nonetheless.
What I’m saying is that even if you don’t like Tom Cruise as a person or a celebrity, or even as an actor, you have to give him some credit for taking commitment to a role to a whole new level.
