"Keep going" - When Tom Cruise's major Mission: Impossible 2 injury was kept secret while filming stunt sequences

Tom Cruise, who plays the titular Ethan Hunt, didn't fail to mesmerize the fans with his free solo climbing stunt shot at Dead Horse Point State Park in Utah in Mission: Impossible 2. That scene is something we cannot really watch without holding our breaths.

While it's sort of difficult to see, it was more difficult to perform. Add an injury to that, and it will almost become an impossible mission for even someone in top shape like Tom Cruise. He revealed this in one recent interview and explained why he had to hide that in the first place.

Tom Cruise was in a rock and hard place with that Mission: Impossible 2 stunt

We are nearing what is likely to be the final chapter in the Mission: Impossible main storyline, and Cruise recently sat down with Empire magazine to discuss the film. While talking about The Final Reckoning, he also shed light on the most dangerous stunt from Mission: Impossible 2. He said,

"There's a section where I'm jumping high to low, but my foot was broken. And I never mentioned it to anyone. Some of these injuries, what's the point? You just keep going."

It was a kind of stunt that left John Woo, who directed Mission: Impossible 2, sweating. He couldn't look at the monitor, as he told Entertainment Weekly in 2000. But after seven takes under the blazing sun, the sequence was a success. By this time, Cruise was actually in for cruising, as he had not one but two injuries now; he tore his shoulder when doing the jumping sequence.

Though it was really Tom Cruise pulling off the stunts in Mission: Impossible 2, one scene where he slips from the cliff was performed by Keith Campbell, who was his main stunt double. But all of it was real, and the fact that no CGI was used makes it one of the best stunts in Hollywood.

It is those death-defying stunts that have added a different kind of flavor to the highly successful franchise. With every new film in it, the audiences might have noticed how Cruise turns that action switch up a notch.

From hanging from a rope to infiltrate the CIA in Mission: Impossible to jumping from a cliff in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, the franchise has come a long way. Now, it's just a few months left until we will see another one of Tom Cruise's stunts. Only this time, we know that it can deliver a heart attack.

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