His longtime stunt coordinator and second unit director Wade Eastwood told The Times of London newspaper how drained the actor was by one particular stunt in the eighth (and apparently final) instalment of his hit franchise Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning – one which involved him walking on the wing of a small biplane mid-air.

"The violets of the mountains have broken through the rocks." When actor Tramell Tillman reaches for a flower to describe Tom Cruise, he doesn't settle for a hardy daisy or rose. He goes straight to Tennessee Williams — and,

Tom Cruise has spent three decades redefining the action genre by throwing himself off cliffs, scaling skyscrapers, and hanging onto planes mid-flight, and with these kinds of stunts come absolute exhaustion.