The Cruister is a man on a mission.
Unfortunately the impossible part of it seems to be getting throughh an entire week without doing himself another damage.
The 55-year-old has always been famously determined to perform all his own stunts within reason and was spotted swinging over the streets of Paris last year for Mission Impossible 6. His problems started when filming reached London and he smashed into teh side of a building, reportedly breaking his ankle.
On his first days back in action this week, it looks like disaster struck again.
Perhaps it’s time to rethink that after a new leaked video from the London set showed him starting a stunt and then stumbling back.
Last year, the star sustained a major injury when a stunt went wrong filmming the same scenes. Cruise was jumping across rooftops when he missed his landing and hit the side of the building.
An insider at the time said: “The injury is worse than was at first feared. Tom did serious damage and will need months to recover.”
After recuperating for weeks from a rumoured broken ankle, the daredevil was back in action last Saturday filming stunt scenes on top of London’s Blackfriars Bridge.
The problems started as he was about to jump out of a window.
Of course, the logical response is not to try jumping out of a window in the first place, especially when you have stuntmen to do that for you. But that has never been Cruise’s style.
In this case, however, he didn’t even make it out of the window.
TMZ exclusively reported: “Tom Cruise should really consider getting a stunt double, because he screwed up another jump on the set of Mission: Impossible 6 and might’ve injured himself again.”
“Filming resumed in London this week, and in this clip you see Cruise attempt to leap onto the ledge of a window … but he slips on something before he gets out.
“A cameraman on the scene says the actor was later seen using crutches, but there are no pics and we haven’t confirmed.”