“He almost had a heart attack” Tom Cruise pushes the limits of action in the latest Mission Impossible, the public is not going to recover!

News culture “He almost had a heart attack” Tom Cruise pushes the limits of action in the latest Mission Impossible, the public is not going to recover!

La fin d’Ethan Hunt

The next installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise, titled Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, will be released in theaters on May 23, 2025 in the United Stateswell, we hope so, because it has been long awaited. This eighth opus will not only mark the return of Tom Cruise in the role ofEthan Huntbut also his last appearance as the secret agent. As the name suggests, Final Reckoning could well be the last film in the series.

The trailer released last November also began to tease an episode still full of action. The images obviously focus on Tom Cruisebut especially on a sequence in a submarine. With this short extract, we can already imagine the worst for the secret agent: probably stuck on the seabed, with a submarine sinking, but above all water seeping everywhere. We can assume that Ethan Hunt will have to carry out his mission in apnea, and that’s good, because Cruise is champion. The actor had already revealed that he had managed to stay 5 minutes and 56 seconds freediving static after undergoing intensive military training for several weeks.

A heart attack in the audience

After a first part which had the spectators in suspense, they are already impatient for the rest, but especially for Tom Cruise’s stunts. According to the director, based on the screenings tested, the feature film provoked such intense reactions that one spectator declared almost had a heart attack. “And I thought, ‘I guess we did something good,’” he adds. For the rest, rest assured that Tom Cruise will still be as impressive and that he will perform all his scenes without a stunt double. Well, almost all of them, because exceptionally, the actor made an exception.

Known for performing all his spectacular stunts, such as climbing the Burj Khalifa or hanging from a plane in mid-flight, Tom Cruise has made an exception for the next installment of the franchise. According to sources close to the shoot, a double was hired for a surprisingly simple scene: turn a page. “Tom is known for performing his own stunts […]. But they hired a double to turn a page. This was to allow an exhausted Tom to rest – he worked extremely hard to complete the film. But I don’t see how turning a page would have added to his fatigue”, according to a source from the media The Mirror. As a reminder, Final Reckoning is scheduled for May 23, 2025 and could well mark the end of the adventure for Ethan Hunt, although Tom Cruise has not yet confirmed whether this will be the last time he plays his iconic character.