The star is promoting the final film in his action franchise, which has made billions of dollars and shoots overseas.

Tom Cruise is Hollywood’s resident daredevil. The 62-year-old has become famous for completing death-defying stunts in his movies, notably the Mission: Impossible franchise. While playing Ethan Hunt, Cruise hung off the side of an airplane, performed a HALO jump at 25,000 feet, and drove a motorcycle off a cliff before skydiving to safety.

Impossible 8 director Christopher McQuarrie wanted him to do was… well, impossible – and he made McQuarrie try it himself to prove his point. In a clip shared on Twitter from a Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning press conference in Tokyo,