![]() And Mission: Impossible 6 is like his showreel.” “I’ve always said if he wasn’t an actor, he would’ve made a great stuntman. “If Tom didn’t have the ability, he wouldn’t be doing all of his own stunts,” Eastwood tells me. Her fighting style focuses on her long legs hence the “ killer thigh move” in Rogue Nation. (“He’s like a bear.”) The same goes for Rebecca Ferguson as former MI6 agent Ilsa Faust. CIA assassin August Walker’s brutal fighting style was developed with actor Henry Cavill’s physicality in mind. For instance, according to Eastwood, actress Vanessa Kirby, who plays the White Widow, trained so intensely on the film that she went from flagging in a 2-kilometer run to completing a half-marathon by the end of the shoot.Įastwood does his best to tailor their action sequences to the respective actors’ strengths. When it comes to who does and doesn’t get to do their own stunts, it all comes down to their individual abilities, and how hard they push themselves. Step 2: getting the cast ready to shoot August Walker’s fighting style was developed with Henry Cavill’s physicality in mind. If they decided the sequence suited the movie and the character involved, it was time to figure out how to do it practically. He would pre-visualize an action sequence, putting together a rough version and then bringing it back for McQuarrie and Cruise’s inspection. Once those character beats were established, Eastwood could move on to the practical magic. ![]() He’s running toward the helicopter, the helicopter takes off, and he’s like, ‘Well, if I let it go, we’re all dead, so I’ve got to do something.’ So it’s always last-minute. When he runs and jumps on that long line on the helicopter, he’s not planning on jumping on it that way. “All this stuff, it’s a little erratic, it’s a little last-minute. “He has no real plan he just knows that he has to complete the mission,” Eastwood explains. Though the stunts must be rigorously planned in order to shoot them, in the context of the film, Hunt is flying by the seat of his pants. When it came to Hunt, that meant bargaining for just how often the agent’s plans can go awry. “We constantly are pushing ourselves,” Eastwood says, stating the question that is key to all of the film’s stunt planning: “Are we doing the best character-based action here?” As Eastwood puts it, staying with the character and keeping the action subjective is what makes it compelling and builds emotional investment. Before shooting on Fallout even began, Eastwood sat down with Cruise and director Chris McQuarrie - both of whom he worked with on 2015’s Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation as well as 2014’s Edge of Tomorrow - to figure out what could be done, not necessarily based on logistics but on what worked for the characters involved. The action in Mission: Impossible begins on paper. ![]() Step 1: figuring out how the stunts fit into the movie The key to the action is basing it on the characters. I spoke to Eastwood over the phone to find out exactly how the Mission: Impossible - Fallout stunts came together (and how they pulled off that jaw-dropping finale). Cruise’s insistence on verisimilitude has become a major part of the mythology around the Mission: Impossible films, adding an extra dimension to “death-defying” when it comes to the franchise’s biggest action set pieces.ĭoing everything for real - or “as real as we could get it,” as the film’s stunt coordinator, Wade Eastwood, puts it - while ensuring that the performers and crew aren’t in any actual jeopardy is no easy task. A crash in the new Fallout, for example, was filmed using a real helicopter body set up on a crane 100 feet in the air, using high-speed winches to simulate the 70 to 80 mph speed at which the crash would occur.Īnd yes, as you’ve likely heard, Cruise does all his own stunts - including the one in Fallout that resulted in two broken ankle bones and a shooting delay. Six films in, the franchise is largely defined by its thrilling action sequences, in no small part because the stunts are executed practically rather than done against a green screen or via motion capture. The latest installment in the series, Fallout, is no exception to the rule, featuring a car-motorcycle-boat chase through Paris and a show-stopping (and heart-stopping) helicopter chase that calls back to the very first Mission: Impossible film and then amplifies it by a factor of 1,000 or so. With each new Mission: Impossible movie, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) must go to greater and greater lengths in order to achieve the impossible.
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