Star Cruise makes it his mission to perform with a broken ankle
TOM CRUISE has said his ankle is “still broken” after injuring it last year on the set of the forthcoming
film. The actor recently resumed shooting for the film and said he must “keep going” despite the ankle not being fully healed because of a scheduled release date. Cruise told
“It’s still broken but I’m doing well. It’s not fully healed but we are shooting and we have a release date so I just have to keep going.
“I spent eight to ten hours a day, seven days a week in rehab because we still have some major stunts to do.”
Production on the sixth film of the action franchise was halted last year after Cruise broke his ankle while completing a stunt.
Sharing details about the accident, the 55-year-old told Graham Norton that it occurred while in pursuit of his co-star, Henry Cavill, who also appears on the chat show along with Cruise and their
co-stars Rebecca Ferguson and Simon Pegg.
“I was chasing Henry and was meant to hit the side of the wall and pull myself over but the mistake was my foot hitting the wall,” Cruise says. “I knew instantly my ankle was broken and I really didn’t want to do it again so just got up and carried on with the take. I said, ‘It’s broken. That’s a wrap. Take me to hospital’ and then everyone got on the phone and made their vacation arrangements.”
Ferguson, who is pregnant, revealed that she “made a baby in the break” from the film.
“I thought I’d have at least six months off,” she adds.
Ferguson, who appeared in the fifth instalment Rogue Nation and reprises her role as MI6 agent Ilsa Faust in the new film,
added that she has not been affected too much while being pregnant.
The which also saw singer Paloma Faith performing in the studio, aired on BBC One last night.