Tom Cruise insists on performing almost all of his own dangerous stunts, which famously resulted in him shattering his ankle while jumping between two buildings for Mission Impossible Fallout.

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Tom Cruise insists on performing almost all of his own dangerous stunts, which famously resulted in him shattering his ankle while jumping between two buildings for Mission Impossible Fallout. The footage of his foot bending at a completely unnatural ninety-degree angle was actually left in the final cut of the movie because the director knew you simply cannot waste a perfectly good compound fracture on the cutting room floor. Cruise then got up and finished the take by limping off camera like a highly paid sociopath before finally seeking medical attention. You have to admire the sheer, unadulterated madness of a middle-aged scientologist repeatedly risking a gruesome death just so bored office workers have something cool to watch while eating overpriced popcorn on a Saturday afternoon