“Oh God, that was brutal,” Cruise remembered as the director noted: “This separated the joints in Tom’s fingers from the force, so by the time we finished this sequence, your hands were absolutely swollen — oh my God, it was so painful to watch.”

Tom Cruise recently opened up about the intense stunt demands of filming Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. In newly released bonus content, he discussed the climactic biplane sequence and how it pushed him to his physical limits.