And in the newest instalment, he provides a brand new feat – clinging to the aspect of a aircraft because it takes off.
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Tom Cruise is 53, but still in the marrying mood. Paramount Pictures wants everyone to know, that’s not the case with the latest chapter of the extremely popular Mission Impossible series. Rebecca Ferguson (so good in BBC TV series The White Queen) is absolutely flawless as the ersatz Bond girl, Ilsa Faust (great name!), who could well be a double, even triple, agent.
“I have no clue”, she confided back, before we both gasped at yet another nifty visual trick.
“He knew I could hear him and he turned to me and screamed at the top of his lungs, ‘Just remember, if I look like I’m panicking, it’s because I’m acting”.
Tom Cruise is once again highly effective as Ethan Hunt, the handsome spy 10 moves ahead of everyone else. Pegg said: “‘He was like, ‘Here: “If you want to do this thing that I do, do it, too.’ It was all him. Its latest plot has something to do with world leaders, British intelligence agencies and a kind of ultra-secure USB stick full of valuable information. Who do you trust and who should you not trust? Which is her job, right?
This time out the International Monetary Fund team find themselves disavowed by the Central Intelligence Agency while in the midst of tracking down a sinister terror group known as The Syndicate. There’s very little rhyme or reason to her motivations, but that’s because it’s a classic femme fatale situation where one constantly thinking it will lead to romance. Or is she? (laughs). Cruise’s ex-wife, Nicole Kidman, still wonders to this day what it could have been like having more kids. It was tough but essential because you have to prepare and you have to be in the best possible condition to survive on a film like this.
It all happens in the opening action sequence of “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation”, hitting theaters Friday.
Celebs including Simon Pegg, Carly Steel, Rebecca Ferguson and magician Dynamo also walked the red carpet this evening.
Simon Pegg, Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue nation co-star dismisses rumors that “there is a lot of mythology” about the Hollywood superstar. (Star Trek, interestingly enough, is nearly accidentally following this model, although I suspect that’s more to do with schedules than an intent to keep things slow.).
Quirky fact: Realised the potential of acting as a career after role playing a domestic disturbance perpetrator as part of a police training exercise.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Expertly building on the renewed energy injected into the Mission: Impossible franchise with 2011’s Ghost Protocol, this fifth episode roars along like a sleek, well-oiled machine.
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-When Cruise escapes the Syndicate by doing this gravity-defying shimmy up a pole, I swear I flashed for a moment to the Katz’s Deli scene from When Harry Met Sally. “The sense of self, the objective, it opened this Pandora’s box of emotions and it went from there”.
