TOM CRUISE BLOWS ‘EM AWAY IN MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3

(VIDEO) Action star Tom Cruise accomplishes the impossible doing all his own stunts in Mission Impossible 3

Tom Cruise accepts his next mission in Mission Impossible 3 and when it comes to action and Cruise nothing is impossible. Teaming up with director JJ Abrams, Tom reprises his role as super spy Ethan Hunt whose mission is to take down a sadistic international arms dealer played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Tom talks about doing a very dangerous stunt without the help of any computer animation.

And Cruise is not only dodging missiles, he’s running through traffic where he says cars are going at top speed.

“The whole stunt where I get blown into the car, we came up with that idea the day before. J.J. and I were walking and kind of looking at the animatic and I said, ‘how can I get blown off and I kind of get Vic and Joey. I said, ‘look I want to get blown off my feet.’ When the missile hits I want to get blown off my feet and is there anything I can slam into or I want an awkward body position, something that’s gonna look really violent’ to get a clean response from the concussion of the missile hit. What do we do? Now that is a live stunt that is not CGI. So these guys are so good that they came up with how we could do it.”

Joining Cruise in the action once again is his old buddy Ving Rhames, and new recruits Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the transportation expert and rookie agent Keri Russell.

“Right after I do the semi, then I have to run through traffic and we had so many cars and they were hauling through there. There’s about six different points that I have to do in one take. It’s gotta be the right car that I’m going through and going over traffic and they’re hauling.”

“This is why I make movies. This is a blast. It doesn’t get any better than that.”