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How Tom Cruise Pulled Off 8 Amazing Stunts | Movies Insider | Insider
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In this scene from "Mission: Impossible -- Fallout,"
Ethan Hunt jumps 25,000 feet
out of a plane before landing in Paris.
A risky move like this
would normally require a stunt double,
but that's actually Tom Cruise,
and that background behind him
is not a green screen.
The actor is famous
for almost always doing his own stunts,
no matter how dangerous.
From climbing the world's tallest building
to hanging off the side of a plane
to pulling off perhaps
one of the most dangerous helicopter chases
ever captured on film,
Cruise is always finding new ways to top himself.
And he's not stopping anytime soon.
At more than 2,700 feet,
the Burj Khalifa in Dubai
is the world's tallest building.
So it was only a matter of time
before Cruise decided to climb it.
For this stunt,
the actor had to climb 1,700 feet in the air,
so he had to wear a special harness
attached to strategic points in the building.
To do this, the crew needed
to break 26 different windows --
with permission, of course.
This harness was so tight,
Cruise said it cut off his circulation.
The 65-millimeter IMAX cameras
and additional helicopter shooting the scene
only had a limited amount of time to record,
so they had to move fast.
But Cruise wasn't just climbing the building.
He also had to fall four stories
and run down the surface of the building
in a move known as an Australian rappel.
All of this required a lot of preparation.
Cruise practiced by climbing up
a makeshift glass wall
heated with artificial lights
to replicate the hot temperature
of the windows on the Burj Khalifa.
Stunt coordinator Gregg Smrz
estimated that Cruise and the crew
put in at least 200 hours of rehearsal time.
This isn't Cruise's first experience climbing, however.
In 2000's "Mission: Impossible 2,"
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