Lights, camera, Tom Cruise!
July 6, 2010 |16:04 | Gossips | Movies By : Team X
"I just love making movies, I feel very honored to be able to do something I love and something I have never taken for granted. It's a privilege for me to do it," says Tom Cruise. The star of Top Gun, Rain Man and Mission: Impossible has been in the business for 30 years and is one of the world's best-known actors.
In his new film Knight and Day, which hits theaters in China on Tuesday, the perfectly formed 48-year-old star plays secret agent Roy Miller. In the movie he leaps rooftops, outmaneuvers bulls on a motorcycle and lands a plane in a cornfield. He seems to be the same young man who would train for 12 hours a day to co-star with Paul Newman in The Color of Money, in 1986.
In Salzburg, Austria, one of the film's most harrowing escape sequences starts on a rooftop, where Miller is trapped and escapes by flying across a yawning abyss high above the city. The crew had only 36 hours to rig, prepare and shoot that scene on a dark, rainy night. Cruise did a controlled fall of more than 30 meters without a harness.
"I looked at the spot where I was supposed to jump off the roof, and I saw this big steel beam, where I was to land," he tells China Daily in a telephone interview. "And it had this thin, little pad on it. I glanced at it and then stunt man Casey O'Neil said, 'It's padded. But that's going to hurt.'"
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