May 20 (UPI) -- Tom Cruise is revisiting some of his iconic stunts from the Mission: Impossible franchise.
On The Tonight Show Monday, host Jimmy Fallon showcased stills of Cruise's past feats, including hanging from a cliff in Mission: Impossible 2 and driving a motorcycle off a cliff in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning.
Cruise, 62, then detailed his latest big stunt -- dangling from a plane at 8,000 feet in the air and in 140 mph winds -- for his new film Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.
"It was pretty intense, I gotta say," he told Fallon. "I didn't realize, like, that amount of force of air, I can't breathe, so I had to figure out how you're taking the wind.... I mean the air particles coming off that propeller are traveling at the speed of sound."
"Look, it is the most intense weight workout you've ever had. Have you ever lifted a weight where you cannot -- it's impossible to lift it again? That's what it's like after a couple of minutes on this wing, what we were doing, because the maneuvers -- you're going from 95 to 145 miles per hour," he added. "And then you're pulling the Gs as we're going along, because a lot of the stuff you're seeing -- I've got to get to zero G as I'm floating in between the wings and trying to maneuver up and down the things... It was crazy."
