What do you want to do?’ And I said, ‘I want to wreck a train.’ We’re enormous fans of Buster Keaton, John Frankenheimer, David Lean, all of these filmmakers who at one time or another had a fabulous train wreck. “He said, ‘I want to drive a motorcycle off of a cliff. “At the start of this movie, I said to Tom, ‘What do you want to do?’” McQuarrie shared. The upcoming installment also “ wrecks” a 70-ton train, per the vision of director Christopher McQuarrie. Pegg applauded Cruise’s dedication to a lack of stunt doubles, saying, “There’s a frisson you get when there’s authenticity: the idea that this guy is actually jumping off a cliff on a motorbike and deploying the parachute 100 feet from the ground? It puts the willies up you.”Ĭruise infamously performs his own stunts, including piloting military planes for “Top Gun: Maverick” and defying death (and gravity) atop a motorcycle for the upcoming “Dead Reckoning” film. When I hear people speculating about his weird religion and making assumptions about who he is as a person, I say, ‘ You know he risks his life for his audience?'” Pegg continued, “People have these opinions about him, which are based entirely on gossip, and he doesn’t really do anything to combat that. “I’ll pull him up on stuff and I can be frank with him,” Pegg said. ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Scores Fourth Palme d’Or for Neon as It Launches Into Awards Season

Art Ops, Vol. 2 by Shaun Simon