I need to ask you about the scene when you jump out of the military plane you
guys are parachuting down. Was that all practical, because so many of the scenes in this film are practical scenes of course.
What Tom achieved on that was beyond remarkable, I mean okay there is skydiving, skydiving is one
thing, but a halo jump is an entirely different thing. The oxygen required to
do that, and then the skills in the air are very different from flying in a wind
tunnel, but just to start the day off, we could only shoot each segment of that for
I'm gonna say, three or four times a day, and we had to be, no less than that
for sure. We had one actual shot we could use every day and that was a dusk. And before
that shot we had training shots to get it there, but each time we went up to
27,000 feet it was, you'd sit in the plane
breathing oxygen for half an hour. And we're in Jordan, and Jordan is not
renowned for its cool temperatures. So we're sitting in a plane for half an
hour boiling, just breathing oxygen and just sitting there with our heads down.
People are falling asleep, whatever, just trying to relax. And then the lights are
red on the plane as well, there's no normal lighting, and so you'll start, and
they've put the fear of God of hypoxia into you. They say if you start
to feel weird or differently, you want to take items of clothing off or anything,
warn us because the chances are you're gonna die within the next few minutes.
And so all you're thinking is do I feel weird? Do I feel odd, am I breathing
normally? I don't think so, but I do since I'm so hot, does that mean I'm hypoxic?
And then you start to take off. And what the pressure does, because
normally in an aircraft, when you're on a passenger plane, you're flying up and it
just feels not, maybe your ears, or your nose, feel funny, but in this all of your
organs and everything inside you starts to swell and expand because you're not
in a pressurized cabin. And so you're sitting there in the most extremist,
I didn't realize how uncomfortable it was, right before, and then the tailgate
opens and that is a moment of relief you're thinking finally we're going to
start, it's all gonna be over soon, and there's no massive blowout of pressure
either when the tailgate opens, it just opens and it's still the normal thing,
yeah but you've gone slightly insane you've been staring at a red light
wondering if you're going hypoxic for the past hour.
And on top of that you have to act.
Yes, of course and then act, then get it right. Because you only have one shot at this.
One shot. You only did that in one take?
Don't mess it up.
And are they filming you in the air? How does that happen?
Yes the cameramen in the air were incredibly skilled because those guys, they had to hit certain marks every time.
And the guy had a camera on his head so where he's looking, because he has this little eye piece.
Say for example if I had to shoot your shoulder I would have to
be looking at your elbow, and when you're falling at whatever speed that is, and
you've got to make sure that Tom Cruise is in the right frame, and Tom's sort of
measures his distance as well and make sure that he flares out at the right
time, the complexities required to achieve this kind of stuff is amazing.
The fact that they got it, especially doing one take a day, was remarkable.
That all sounds so insane because normally you would have green screen or
blue screen, everything is kind of done in post, and when you watch this movie
you kind of think that because that's what we're used to, but it's so cool to
think these are all practical stunts. You guys actually did that.
It's one of the best things about this movie is that you get to live the experience because you
know it's real human beings and real scenarios. And so you're not, the
audience's, we all know these days that half the stuff is CGI, but when you know
it's a Mission Impossible movie, you know it's not CGI, that people are actually
hurtling towards the earth at maximum velocity and if they don't do it right everyone dies.
Of course we know that you can handle action scenes because of Man
of Steel, your Superman films, but it was cool to see you handle your own against
someone like Tom Cruise who has been doing this for so long.
Yeah thanks.
Was it cool working with him?
It was.
Did you learn a lot from him?
I did. Yes. The thing about working with Tom and coming off this movie is that I knew it was practical stunts and I was very excited about that.
I thought it was a wonderful opportunity to learn a lot and really get stuck in for the first time.
But I realized that there are so much, that we have skill sets that I have yet
to learn, to reach that level. I mean Tom Cruise can stunt ride a motorcycle, stunt
drive a car, he can hold his breath for six minutes or something ridiculous. He
can stunt fly a helicopter in the mountains, he can stunt fly a plane in
formation. All of these things are skill sets which I do not have and physicality
can only take you so far in stunts. And so I've walked off this project thinking
it's time to up my game, yeah. It's time to learn some stuff.
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