007 STUNT BAN
Double trouble spelled danger for Tom Daniel’s wife Rachel lays down law
Stuntman tries to leap towards building IT looks like missing is impossible as Tom Cruise’s stuntman slams into the side of a building – a day before the Hollywood star broke his ankle hitting the same wall.
Fans had watched horrified as Tom’s daredevil double painfully tested out the jump in advance of filming the scene for M:I 6 – Mission Impossible.
But a day later the 55-year-old actor was injured doing it for real – and is expected to need four months to recover.
One onlooker said: “After watching the footage of Tom’s injury, the exact same thing happened to the stuntman the day before.
“The stuntman had padding so that must have protected him. I don’t know if Tom had any padding. I saw the stuntman jump, hit the wall and bounce off.”
Paramount Pictures has put production on hold while Cruise recovers, but insists the release date next July will not be affected.
The stunt involves the star jumping between two buildings – but both the stand-in and Cruise ended up hitting a wall.
The witness added: “He’ll be laid up for months. It was very risky.”
He made the vow to give actress wife Rachel Weisz some Solace after she grew “worried sick” by the toll on his “broken body”.
The couple struck a deal as Craig, 49, signed up to play 007 in the next movie, out in 2019 and as Daniel and wife Rachel Weisz He goes awry and smashes into wall Tom also hits wall.. and breaks his ankle Star Tom makes same leap the following day yet untitled. The star insists on doing nearly all his own stunts and has said: “I knackered my knee and had surgery, I’ve had my right shoulder reconstructed, my other knee operated on and my thumb got hurt.” A close source says Rachel, 47, has lost sleep and can’t bear to see Craig tackling Stuntman is left dangling from wire another round of what she calls “the boxing ring”. The insider said: “It’s a big bone of contention. Rachel doesn’t want him in agony again. None of his aches and pains have gone away completely.
“There’s a legacy to all these injuries and she lives with them. They’ve come to an agreement about how hard he will push himself and he is pulling back from the edge this time. It’s a prerequisite.”
But Gary Powell, Craig’s stunt co-ordinator, said it will be hard to get him to slow down. He said: “He’s intrepid. It’s pretty hard to stop him. But he lives with the injuries and those aches and pains stay with you long after filming.
“Daniel pushes himself very hard and does all his own car chases. But if you do stunts you have to be afraid or you don’t see the danger. He understands that.”
Craig has played Bond four times and is reported to be on €123million to be 007 twice more. But he has admitted he would love to match or beat the seven movies of the late Sir Roger Moore and admitted: “I want to go out with a bang.”
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