@tomcruise explains how he prepared for his unbelievable biplane stunt in @missionimpossible - The Final Reckoning and shares

I can't even talk about this, but when you see it, everybody, you're going to freak out. Tom, that's you. That's you, bud. I mean, do you manifest it? Like, do you see an idea in your head and go, oh, I think that would be a great stunt. I want to do that. And you see yourself doing it? Yeah, I do. I remember seeing, like, black and white footage of the very early days of Wing Walk, and I just thought, oh, I'd love to do that. Then Miku and I were just talking, we just discussed, we'd like to do a narrative sequence, you know, after... Yeah, this is Christopher McQuarrie. And we were talking about it. It's like, let's go do a narrative sequence and want to do Wing Walking. So we chose the airplane and, you know, I know how to fly that airplane and figure it out. And then we just start seeing, how can I get zero G between the wings, and what can we do? And I don't know if you've ever had your hand outside a window going about 145 miles an hour. I don't know if you've done that. Yeah, I've done. But I mean, how do you... 60 miles an hour, and then, you know, multiply it, but feel the force of it. It was pretty intense, I gotta say. How do you breathe? That's a good question. I didn't realize, like, that amount of force of air, I can't breathe. So I had to figure out how you're taking the wind, and you're breathing down here like this, and only the air particles coming off that propeller are traveling at the speed of sound. So the air is going around the fuselage like this, and the force of the air when I got close to the fuselage was brutal. I mean, the air going over the wing, period, was brutal. Yeah. You know, but when the airplane went upside down, and also the engine would stop. So, like, we did it, like, there's stuff where I'm there, and I was like, okay, let's see how long we can hold that. So that, you know, with the engine stop, and then you, you know, so we, believe me, we spent a lot of time figuring this stuff out, like, you know, how to start the engine from here and not, you know, go underground. But you're on that thing, and then you must, and you practice, but if you're in trouble, you do this, right, and you go, and then, that's what I would do immediately. When I'm resting, it's, look, it's, it is the most intense weight workout you've ever had. Have you ever lifted a weight where you cannot, it's impossible to lift it again? That's what it's like after a couple of minutes on this wing, what we're doing, because the maneuvers, you're going from 95 to 145, you know, miles an hour, and then you're pulling the G's as we're going along. Because a lot of the stuff you're seeing, when I've got to get to zero G as I'm floating in between the wings and trying to maneuver up and down the wings, and as he's going, it's throwing me in different directions, and, you know, and I'm, I don't know, it was crazy. It was crazy. It really was, honestly. I don't know, it was a lot of fun. I'm glad you said it. Yeah, it was crazy. You actually brought us. People were like, it's crazy. I was like, yeah. Yeah, you did. Yeah, you did it. You brought us an exclusive behind-the-scenes look. Take a look at how we prepared for this. McHugh and I went through every step of this aerial sequence. Tom and I had to develop the choreography. We're going to do rolls, loops, and overheads. We can do this now. Okay. We can do it. When Tom is on the wing, we have to communicate by hand signal because the winds are from 100 to 140 miles an hour. I lost it. Yeah. That's not even the movie. That's the test. No, that's not the movie. That's the test of what you're going to do. Yeah, that's the movie. That's us testing. We're just testing.