Even if you've never watched a Mission: Impossible movie, you'll have heard plenty about the incredible stunts that Tom Cruise carries out for each movie, but what is he really like to work with behind-the-scenes?
We decided the best people to ask were his cast-mates on the new movie, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, including Simon Pegg who has now worked with Cruise on five Mission: Impossible movies spanning two decades.
"He inspires you to try and be as applied and as dedicated as he is," Pegg told Digital Spy. "If you do something and he praises you, it's great. You're like, 'Oh Tom liked my thing!'... He doesn't really like talking about himself. He'll always turn it onto you."
Pom Klementieff, who has now made two Mission: Impossible movies, agreed: "He's very vocal with anything. Always very generous talking about others and celebrating others.
"It's like a contagious passion and fire for making everything better, training hard and always challenging yourself. Everyone does it, every department on the movie, so it's just beautiful to get all these talents together and just being in sync."
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As well as starring as Ethan Hunt in all eight Mission: Impossible movies, Cruise has also been a producer on the entire series.
It's something that isn't ignored by Angela Bassett when it comes to the success of the series.
"Nobody works harder than he does, nobody is more committed than he is. No one is more embracing and generous as he is, as an actor and a producer and the leader of this series," she praised.
Hayley Atwell added: "If he's not in a scene, he's still right there as a producer, he's got his hands on everything. He sees everything that's going on and is a big part of every creative decision that gets made."
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But for Greg Tarzan Davis, who returns in The Final Reckoning as Theo Degas, there's one other thing about working with Cruise that made him happy that this time, Degas is on the IMF's side.
"Trying to run after Tom is tiring. So much running. Imagine if I had to run after him the entire film, I wouldn't like it," he reflected.
"It's much more fun to be on this side of the line because these are my family and I get to spend time with them on set, not just off-set. So it's really fun to have these scenes with them and play – and not have to run all day."
And we definitely don't blame him for that.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is released in UK cinemas on 21 May and in US cinemas on 23 May.
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Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
