When Jimmy Kimmel asked Henry Cavill whether Tom Cruise had a death wish: ‘I am not sure whether Tom Cruise can actually bleed’

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Henry Cavill then talked about the famous building leap which broke Tom Cruise’s ankle and revealed how long it took for the actor to get back on the set. “When he broke his ankle on the set, he was told immediately by the doctors that ‘You won’t be able to put weight on it or use it for 6 months, and you may never run again.’ He said, ‘Well, that’s not good; that doesn’t work.’ He was running 6 weeks after that happened.”

Cruise has himself talked about the stunt in question in the past and clarified that he was always supposed to hit the side of the wall, but the ankle-breaking part wasn’t in the plan. The cast of Fallout, including Cruise, Cavill, Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson, appeared on the Graham Norton Show and reviewed the footage of the stunt. Pegg pointed out that Cruise keeps trying to show him the clip, but he refuses to watch it. He recalled that when Cruise continued the shot and ran past the camera with a broken ankle, everyone on the set said, “Oh, that’s so him.”

Now we wait for Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, which hits the Indian theatres on May 17. Trailers and sneak peeks already show some more stunts that promise to leave the audience right on the edge of their seats.