They were like, ‘Oh, you can sit down and we’ll have a stunt double do it,’ and I was like, ‘No, I’ve worked too hard, let me do it!’” the actor revealed.

The new film picks up where Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One ended, with Ethan, Grace ( Hayley Atwell ), and the rest of the team pursuing Gabriel (Esai Morales), an assassin working for the Entity artificial intelligence.

Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning marked the return of veteran character actor Rolf Saxon in the role of William Donloe.

Shooting on an Arctic set and in South Africa proved challenging for different reasons on the wildlife spectrum.

Impossible - The Final Reckoning is setting records over Memorial Day weekend. The former is a live-action remake of the 2002 Disney animated movie of the same name, following latchkey kid Lilo (Maia Kealoha) befriending the mischievous alien Stitch (Chris Sanders) after he escapes captivity and crash lands in Hawai'i.

The mega Memorial Day weekend at the box office is off to a great start with 'Lilo & Stitch' eyeing a Disney preview best for holiday at $14M and 'Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning' Looking at $8M Franchise record.

While Saxon only appears briefly in the original movie, Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie brought the actor and his character back for The Final Reckoning in a pivotal rol

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