Tom Cruise eats ‘nearly a dozen eggs’ earlier than hanging off a aircraft at 120 mph: ‘My physique is burning quite a bit’

Tom Cruise is lastly revealing what it takes to tug off his high-flying, death-defying stunts: a terrific huge breakfast.

The Mission: Impossible star defined how he fuels up for his over-the-top motion scenes in a brand new interview with PEOPLE.

"I truly eat a large breakfast," Cruise mentioned of his ritual earlier than hanging off a biplane and wing-walking for a key Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning set piece. "The quantity of power it takes — I prepare so exhausting for that wing-walking. I'll eat, like, sausage and nearly a dozen eggs and bacon and toast and occasional and fluids. Oh, I'm consuming! Image: It's chilly up there. We're at excessive altitude. My physique is burning quite a bit."

Cruise mentioned he's needed to emulate wing-walkers — daredevil performers who would stand upon and bounce between biplane wings starting within the early days of aviation — since he was a baby. "I keep in mind seeing outdated footage of wing-walking," he advised PEOPLE. "These plane have been solely touring at, I don't know, 40, 50 miles an hour. This plane is as much as over 120 miles an hour. Going on the market, I used to be realizing that it takes your breath away."

The Last Reckoning wing-walking stunt marks an extra escalation of Cruise's airborne antics, which have additionally included a daring helicopter chase and a HALO bounce in Mission: Impossible — Fallout, fighter jet dogfights in High Gun and Top Gun: Maverick, and clinging to the aspect of a army aircraft throughout takeoff in Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation.

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Cruise advised PEOPLE that his late mom was glad she didn't know the small print about that final sequence till after it was accomplished. "Oh, honey, I'm so glad you didn't fill me in on that one beforehand," the actor remembered his mom telling him.

The Last Reckoning additionally options an prolonged underwater sequence, and Cruise mentioned his aviation expertise helped put together him for the stunt, which restricted his oxygen consumption and reveals the actor's face by way of a transparent masks quite than a conventional scuba mouthpiece.

"You're not going to really feel as linked with the character if I went with a daily masks and a factor in my mouth to breathe," he mentioned. "Fortunately once you're flying jets you prepare for hypoxia and for carbon dioxide buildup. You begin to have the ability to understand your physique and the way it's reacting in order that I knew when to cease."

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Cruise acknowledged that his stunt work is ceaselessly troublesome, however that's a part of the attraction. "On Mission, if it was simple, I suppose we wouldn't wish to do it," he mentioned.

Mission: Unattainable — The Last Reckoning hits theaters Might 23.

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