Tom Cruise spills secret to preparing for death-defying aerial stunts

Bang Showbiz | Los Angeles

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Tom Cruise always eats a “massive breakfast” before doing any daredevil stunts.

The 62-year-old Hollywood legend famously hanged off a military plane in the opening scene of ‘Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation’, and has done numerous jaw-dropping aerial sequences in the film series where he plays Mission Force agent Ethan Hunt.

Cruise has now revealed that he has to be fuelled with energy before he does his stunts and he’ll eat “almost a dozen” eggs with bacon and sausages and down several cups of coffee before the cameras start rolling.

In an interview with PEOPLE magazine’s ‘Mission: Impossible’ issue, he said: “I actually eat a massive breakfast

“The amount of energy it takes - I train so hard for that wing-walking.

“I’ll eat, like, sausage and almost a dozen eggs and bacon and toast and coffee and fluids.

“Oh, I’m eating! Picture: It’s cold up there. We’re at high altitude. My body is burning a lot.”

Despite Tom dubbing the opening stunt to the 2015 flick as one of the least-safe stunts, his late mom Mary Pfeiffer is glad she did not know about it before she saw the footage.

She said: “Oh, honey, I’m so glad you didn’t fill me in on that one beforehand.”

In the eighth instalment of the critically acclaimed series, ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ - which is released in May - the ‘Top Gun’ icon experienced what it was like to spin inside a washing machine as the crew built a tank to shoot a submarine interior that tilted and spun 360 degrees.