Tom Cruise has successfully pulled off one of his most challenging movie stunts ever.
After dangling from the outside of a plane mid-flight in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, the 55-year-old actor has taken it one step further for the upcoming movie, Mission: Impossible — Fallout.
In a featurette for the movie, which will be released in August, Cruise is shown becoming the first actor to do a HALO jump [High Altitude High Opening] on camera.
The technique, which is used by the military to avoid radar detection, involves the parachutist jumping from a much greater height than usual and opening their parachute much closer to the ground.
![The action star did eight jumps a day to get his form right and ended up doing more than 100 dives in total for the shot. Photo / YouTube](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/E6ECJTZ5YMLUXIGCZMKTP27SMA.jpg?auth=3dfe695f6439e2f5efba1d3f76e34d8925dc75237aa01450797d2fa6f4503cdb&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)