Tom Cruise's 'Mission Impossible' stunt that Jeremy Renner was terrified to emulate: 'I was a bit concerned'
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Tom Cruise, Hollywood's go-to action hero, is known to pull off insane stunts that utterly scare not just the audience but even his co-stars. When it comes to executing stunts for movies, Jeremy Renner has proven to be a fantastic match for his co-star Cruise. The 60-year-old action legend recently shot a risky motorbike stunt for his upcoming movie 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One', which is due out in theaters on July 12.
However, there was one stunt in the movie that totally spooked 'Hawkeye' star, 52. The 'Mission Impossible' costars routinely risk their bodies to keep it real in their films. But when they starred together in the famous action series film, Cruise may have merely displayed a greater sense of adventure than Renner.
Renner has historically chosen to perform his own stunts. Instead of substituting with a stunt double, he felt it allowed the audience to get more immersed in his own efforts, despite the physical hazards. "You spend so much time and money to try to create a world for people to go sit there on a chair to watch a movie. You don’t want them to be pulled out of the movie because you see some guy in a bad wig trying to do the stunt," he once shared on 'The Howard Stern Show'.
'Mission Impossible' scene that scared Renner
Renner recalled one particular stunt that stood out among all of his other daredevil work in 'Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol', in which Cruise also featured. Like Renner, the 60-year-old superstar has a long history of taking risks in the movies and still does so today. 'The Bourne Legacy' star, however, believed that he had performed all of his possible stunts. In a 'Mission Impossible' sequence, Cruise had to jump from the tallest structure on Earth. Renner would have to do a similar scene, but at first, the actor hesitated to follow Cruise's lead.
'I was a bit concerned'
"So Tom’s been running around the building the whole time, and I thought ‘I can do this,'" Renner once said to The Huffington Post. "There’s only this little belt, one wire and a bloke who doesn’t look like he’s paying attention holding me up, so I was a bit concerned. A couple of seconds later, I was doing it. And it became a beautiful scene, once the terror passed."
'I'm OK with a stunt guy doing it at this point'
The 52-year-old star indicated just a few months ago that he was fine with having a stuntman do the perilous Marvel feats going forward after being involved in a near-fatal snowcat accident on New Year's Day that left him in the hospital with more than 30 broken bones and necessitated chest surgery. "I'm OK with a stunt guy doing it at this point," Renner said in a show that aired on ABC on Thursday, April 6. "I'm 52. It's fine. I've done enough. I'm OK to do more, right? But, I'm Ok. I have no ego. Yeah, go for it. I don't care."
