“It depends on what I’m doing and the amount of preparation I have to do. A lot of thought goes into it, and they are very complex and very interesting.”
Such preparation often includes sports medicine consultations, injury prevention therapy, and even rehabilitation services—which fall under private health insurance coverage or specialized.
Stunt liability insurance, a niche but high-cost segment in the legal and insurance industries. Cruise recently said that the secret to performing all his own stunts is that he feels ‘no fear.’
He famously shattered his ankle leaping between two skyscrapers in a previous Mission: Impossible, which could have involved hospital costs exceeding six figures, depending on the complexity of treatment and post-surgical rehabilitation.
Extreme Filmmaking, Extreme Commitment
In this Mission: Impossible, he wing-walks on a vintage biplane and also acts in an extraordinary underwater sequence set on board a submarine.
