Tom Cruise has never steered away from challenging himself in his roles for projects. Especially since 1986’s Top Gun, he has continued to push the limits of his body and acting, taking on his own stunts in most of his top films, including Mission: Impossible, The Last Samurai, and Jack Reacher. Most recently, Cruise took on several death-defying stunts in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, including speed-flying down a mountainside as well as driving a motorcycle off a cliff and parachuting to safety. The actor has previously said during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show that he has been “doing different stunts” since he was a child and that once he got into acting, he wanted to keep doing it to help with the “storytelling.”

Source: The Hollywood Reporter