Tom Cruise reacts to footage of his own ankle breaking in slow motion

Fair warning — if the thought of watching someone’s ankle break in slow motion makes you feel a tad uncomfortable, you may want to look away now.

In the clip above from The Graham Norton Show, Tom Cruise gets replayed the footage of his ankle being broken during filming for Mission Impossible 6. There are several angles, and one features a slow-motion closeup of the ankle itself. Needless to say, it’s pretty wince-inducing.

What makes the whole thing seriously impressive, though, is the final angle — a front shot showing an injured Cruise grimly clambering onto the building to finish the stunt, despite the fact he’s just mangled one of his bones against a concrete wall. Read more…

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