Tom Cruise on Brad Bird, Jeremy Renner and climbing the Burj Khalifa in Mission: Impossible 4
Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol video interview.
Tom Cruise: I love making these movies. Because of all of that, because it is such a challenge. Because Ethan and his team get into these situations and I enjoy the challenge of coming up with these sequences.
His sequences are amazing. And also his characters. How he keeps the tension and dispense in his stories. When you look at The Incredibles, when you look at Ratatouille. The design of those sequences. The characters. And also his understanding and love of cinema. We share that together, you know. We got together, we just talked about, you just go right in. It's like an old friend and talking about our favorite movies and the things that inspire us. And I felt personally that he was someone I'd really liked to hang out with and work with. And someone that I have great respect for.
Renner is just a wonderful actor. He's a great actor. And he's someone who... He brings a physicality and an intelligence and a charm to that character. And it's a surprise. It's the mystery of that character. I don't wanna give too much away, what he does. But he's extraordinary. So it was a lot of fun working with him.
On climbing the Burj Khalifa:
We didn't have a lot of test time. What they did first is, they actually build walls for me. Just to practice my climbing. And I would do drills. We had to figure out how the cloves were gonna work. How do we do it. So I spent months actually working on that. And then training. Going up and down as fast as I could. Getting my endurance up in the climb.
I like to work with people that I like hanging out with. That I admire. That are really smart and talented. And we can problem solve together. That what it's about. And I love J.J. Abrams. So to work with him again on this is... that's why I did it.
