“Oh God, that was brutal,” Cruise remembered as the director noted: “This separated the joints in Tom’s fingers from the force, so by the time we finished this sequence, your hands were absolutely swollen — oh my God, it was so painful to watch.”

Tom Cruise recently opened up about the intense stunt demands of filming Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. In newly released bonus content, he discussed the climactic biplane sequence and how it pushed him to his physical limits.

Tom Cruise keeps raising the bar with his own stunts — though he revealed some left him dangerously close to disaster. In a bonus feature for the digital release of Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning,