PLAY MOVIES HENRY SOARS THROUGH MISSION

across tall buildings, dangling off the side of a helicopter, riding a motorbike the wrong way through traffic around Paris’s infamous Arc de Triomphe … there’s no doubt that Tom Cruise and his death- defying stunts are the stars of the Mission: Impossible franchise.

But in the new, sixth instalment, Mission: Impossible: Fallout, Henry Cavill, who swaps Superman’s cape to play CIA agent August Walker to Cruise’s IMF agent Ethan Hunt, also proved no slouch in the adrenaline- fuelled action stakes.

The Fallout sequence most likely to have seen Cavill fall into fear – or, well, simply fall – was filmed in New Zealand.

“The helicopter sequence had to be very close shots,” he said.

“With Tom getting within a rotor’s length of my helicopter ... and travelling however many miles it is through the mountains in New Zealand, I was looking out the side thinking, ‘ If he does hit me, and if I survive the helicopter crash ... how do I get out of the mountains?’.”

Born on the island of Jersey in 1983, winning the role of Superman and kicking off the DC Extended Universe with Man of Steel propelled Cavill to super- strength in Hollywood.

That good guy Clark Kent persona takes a back seat in Mission: Impossible: Fallout, as Agent Walker’s shady motives pit him against Ethan Hunt. The story of Fallout centres on Hunt’s loyalty being questioned by the CIA as he races against time to avert a global catastrophe set in motion by an old foe. All the while, he’s being hunted by assassins and former allies.

The action takes the team from Norway to Paris, the United Arab Emirates and New Zealand’s Otago and Southland. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT IS SCREENING NOW.