Tom Cruise told Empire magazine that he breathed in his own carbon dioxide while filming a grueling action set piece for the upcoming “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.” The sequence finds Cruise’s Ethan Hunt underwater exploring the wreckage of a submarine.

"I had to train myself how to breathe. There were times I would pass out physically; I was unable to get back into the cockpit," Cruise says.

The newest look at Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning dropped Sunday during Super Bowl 2025, and in it, Cruise's spy extraordinaire Ethan Hunt performs death-defying stunts across land, sea, and sky.

Tom Cruise’s dedication to practical stunts reaches new depths in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, with Empire magazine revealing the actor risked hypoxia while filming an intense underwater sequence.

Action star Tom Cruise, who is famous for playing all his difficult stunts himself, will again leave fans in awe with the new Mission: Impossible sequel. The 2025 film also includes

The star of the action movie franchise told Empire magazine: "When you stick your face out (of an aeroplane), going over 120 to 130 miles an hour, you're not getting oxygen. So I had to train myself how to breathe.

Leave it to Tom Cruise to commit to the bit. The veteran movie star and action hero, famously known for his dedication to leading his own stunts, told Empire in a recent interview previewing the forthcoming Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning that one action sequence in particular led him to pass out on a