His longtime stunt coordinator and second unit director Wade Eastwood told The Times of London newspaper how drained the actor was by one particular stunt in the eighth (and apparently final) instalment of his hit franchise Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning – one which involved him walking on the wing of a small biplane mid-air.

Tom Cruise faced a life-threatening moment underwater—find out what nearly derailed one of his biggest stunts yet.

Tom Cruise has spent three decades redefining the action genre by throwing himself off cliffs, scaling skyscrapers, and hanging onto planes mid-flight, and with these kinds of stunts come absolute exhaustion.