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Tom Cruise’s<\/a> “Jerry McGuire” costar Beau Bridges thinks the 63-year-old actor is getting better and better with age.<\/p>\n

“I really appreciated working with him,” Bridges, who starred alongside Cruise in the 90s romcom, told People <\/a>while attending the “Matlock” For Your Consideration event last week. “He’s a wonderful actor and just gets better with age<\/a>. I mean, he’s still doing all those crazy stunts and stuff. Yeah. And I like working with him. I thought he was great.”<\/p>\n

Bridges isn’t the only actor who has thoughts on Cruise’s legendary stunts.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Ethan Hawke revealed that he<\/a> has grown “angry” with Cruise, explaining that the “Mission: Impossible” star\u2019s high-risk stunt work has changed what audiences and studios expect from actors across Hollywood.<\/p>\n

‘MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE’ STAR TOM CRUISE’S UNUSUAL PREPARATION FOR DEATH-DEFYING STUNTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Tom Cruise has totally changed what\u2019s expected for actors,” Hawke told Variety <\/a>at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in February. “Some part of me is getting angry over the years because everyone somehow feels like they\u2019re less if they use a stunt team.”<\/p>\n

While Cruise \u2014 who is returning for “Top Gun 3” \u2014 has<\/a> never appeared in a superhero movie from Marvel, DC or any other comic-book franchise, the actor cemented his status as an action movie icon by insisting on performing increasingly dangerous, real-world stunts himself in blockbuster franchises including “Mission: Impossible,” “Top Gun”<\/u><\/a> and “Jack Reacher.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last year, Cruise nearly broke his back<\/a> while performing a stunt for “Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning.”<\/p>\n

\u2018MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE\u2019 STAR TOM CRUISE DEFIES DEATH, HANGING FROM AIRPLANE IN WILD NEW STUNT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In bonus content from the digital release of the film, Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie detailed one of the film\u2019s most harrowing sequences: a high-flying biplane battle between the actor\u2019s character, Ethan Hunt, and Gabriel, portrayed by Esai Morales.<\/p>\n

The scene showed Ethan leaping from one plane onto another, as he clung to the wing midair.<\/p>\n

“Oh, this almost broke my back,” Cruise said, per Entertainment Weekly.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

TOM CRUISE ‘PASSED OUT’ FILMING NEW ‘MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE’ MOVIE SCENES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“You\u2019re talking about a lot of pain here,” McQuarrie chimed in.<\/p>\n

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Cruise\u2019s character was seen in the video clip grabbing a seat belt, holding on for dear life, as the plane flipped upside down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Now watch this, the thing we haven\u2019t talked about, holding on to this belt,” McQuarrie described, while Cruise said, “Oh God, that was brutal.”<\/p>\n

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The director continued to explain, “This separated the joints in Tom’s fingers from the force, so by the time we finished this sequence, your hands were absolutely swollen \u2013 oh my God, it was so painful to watch.”<\/p>\n

During the intense scene, Cruise\u2019s character was forced to crash into the side of the aircraft. As he remembered the pain, the Hollywood actor<\/u><\/a> said, “Oh, that was brutal. That hit, that was a hard one.”<\/p>\n

McQuarrie joked, “And you improvised that, thank you very much. I appreciate that. You were like, \u2018I think we\u2019re gonna need that,\u2019 and I was like, \u2018I didn\u2019t ask you to do that.\u2019”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Stephanie Giang-Paunon and Ashley Hume contributed to this post.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/beau-bridges-says-tom-cruise-gets-better-age-top-gun-star-keeps-defying-hollywood-odds <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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