Tom Cruise's First Scene of New 'Mission: Impossible' Movie Was His Most Dangerous Stunt Ever (Exclusive)

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Tom Cruise is serious about his stunt work, and in he wasted no time taking on a death-defying scene!Cruise sat down with ET's Nischelle Turner in Rome this week to preview the upcoming action flick, and he shared an interesting fact about the production, revealing that the most dangerous stunt of his career — a motorcycle jump off of a cliff into a base jump — was the first-ever scene filmed for .«Well, we know either we're gonna continue with the film or we're not,» Cruise said with a laugh of planning the death-defying stunt. «Let's know day one… Do we all continue, or is it a major rewrite?»In all seriousness, the actor added, it all came down to focus. «It was years preparing.

I mean, I've been riding motorcycles since I was a little kid, raced cars and spent a lot of time just with aerobatics, airplanes, helicopters and parachutes… It all kind of came to that moment.»«You have to be razor sharp when you do something like that, so it was very important as we were prepping the film that that actually was the first thing [to shoot], because I don't want to drop that and go shoot other things and then have my mind somewhere else,» he continued. «Everyone was prepped, let's just get it done.»And it wasn't just the one stunt that Cruise was hyper-focused on throughout the film's production.

He did his own stunt driving for an intense chase scene throughout the streets of Rome — while his character was handcuffed to franchise newcomer Hayley Atwell, no less — saying the challenges he takes on as a performer are indicative of his devotion to the action-packed franchise.is the first film I ever produced," he recalled of the impact the films have had on his career, dating back to the 1996 original.