While Tom Cruise Is Off Doing His Own Stunts, Here's How His Bored Stuntman Keeps Busy

He's an Uber driver, per this Mission: Impossible tie-in

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One of the key press narratives pushed by Paramount in the campaigns for the past three Mission: Impossible movies has been that star Tom Cruise is willing and able to do his own stunts.

For 2011’s Ghost Protocol, the focus was on his work during the sequence where Cruise’s Ethan Hunt has to climb the exterior of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. For 2015’s Rogue Nation it was on the scene where Hunt is hanging off the outside of a transport plane while it’s taking off.

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