Mission Impossible 6: The exact moment Tom Cruise broke his ankle filming stunt
The accident halted production of the spy franchise's sixth instalment
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Your support makes all the difference.Tom Cruise broke his ankle performing a stunt on the set of new Mission: Impossible film Fallout - and here's footage of the exact moment it happened.
Earlier this year, the actor dropped into The Graham Norton Show alongside co-stars Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg and Henry Cavill to discuss the sixth instalment of the blockbuster spy franchise where he revealed in detail the accident which occurred during a rooftop chase stunt filmed in London.
“I was chasing Henry and was meant to hit the side of the wall and pull myself over but the mistake was my foot hitting the wall,” he explained. “I knew instantly my ankle was broken and I really didn’t want to do it again so just got up and carried on with the take. I said, ‘It’s broken. That’s a wrap. Take me to hospital’ and then everyone got on the phone and made their vacation arrangement.”
You can watch the precise moment the film star's ankle broke in the video below.
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the new film - which has been released to widespread acclaim - follows on from 2015's Rogue Nation.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout also stars Angela Bassett, Alec Baldwin, Vanessa Kirby and franchise stalwart Ving Rhames.
Michelle Monaghan's character Julia Meade, who first appeared in JJ Abram's Mission: Impossible III in 2006, also returns.
The film is in cinemas now. Next up will be a sequel to 1986 classic Top Gun starring Val Kilmer, Miles Teller and Jennifer Connelly.
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