Mission Impossible 8 Tom Cruise 125kg underwater shooting in a wetsuit..It was hard to breathe
May 08, 2025
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On the afternoon of the 8th, a press conference was held at Lotte Cinema World Tower in Sincheon-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, for the spy action film 'Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning' (hereinafter 'Mission Impossible 8', directed by Christopher Macquarie). The conference was attended by Tom Cruise as top IMF agent Ethan Hunt, Hailey Atwell as unpredictable IMF new member Grace, Simon Peg as key IMF member Benji Dunn, Pom Clementiev as Paris, owner of relentless fighting power, Greg Tarzan Davis as CIA agent Theo Degas, and director Christopher Macquarie.
Director Christopher McQuarrie responded to the underwater shooting, which is considered the highlight of Mission Impossible 8, saying, `It was really scary. It was an unknown part, but I only knew what I knew from what I had learned so far, and I kept not knowing what I didn't know. There was a lot of fear about that part. Tom Cruise is wearing a mask and it's cinematic but it's not really efficient in the water. It was very hard to film. There were a lot of risks. Every time I took off my mask, I had an emergency worker and I had to monitor how much CO2 I was drinking. I tried to take off my mask as much as I could."
Tom Cruise also weighed "125kg in his wetsuit. Carbon dioxide continued to accumulate and air was trapped in the mask. It was hard to breathe, but I wanted to keep filming. I didn't want to take off my mask, but the director kept trying to take it off. We tried to develop a spatial perception ability that outperforms the general public,' he said, reflecting on the situation at the time.
'Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning' is a story about Ethan Hunt and IMF team members risking their lives and jumping into the single mission where every choice is made amid a desperate crisis that threatens the entire human race. Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Bing Lames, Simon Pegg, Essai Morales, pom Clementiv and Greg Tarzan Davies starred and director Christopher Macquarie of the 'Mission Impossible' series took the megaphone. It will be released in Korea on the 17th and then in North America on the 23rd.
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