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Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt became quite the duo after they starred in the 2014 iconic movieEdge of Tomorrow.Being a sci-fi/action movie, there were bound to be stunts in the movie which Cruise would personally star in to continue his legacy.
Recalling an incident when Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise were both involved in a stunt, they were hanging upside down from a rope. Since it was too much to bear, Emily Blunt imitated Cruise’s honest reaction when theTop Gunactor was praying that the camera would start rolling.
When Tom Cruise And Emily Blunt Were Hanging Upside Down
Although this wasn’t the“Upside Down”fromStranger Things,the upside down from which Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt were suffering, wasn’t so good either. Talking about the story while shooting the iconic 2014 movieEdge of Tomorrow,Emily Blunt talked about a hilarious story during filming.
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Stating that to shoot the scene in which both she andTom Cruisejump from a plane, the set was created quite small. Stating that it was claustrophobic, Blunt revealed that the camera crew would often bump into the actors who were hanging upside down from the rope to portray the action of falling.
“We’re hanging in the extra suits and the entire weight is like on your groin. Miserable people, just like this [she becomes stiff]. And Tom [Cruise], that insatiable positivity, I can just see it starting to unravel”
TheJungle Cruiseactress further continued.
“He was pouring with sweat. I remember looking at him and he was like ‘Guys, please. Please roll, please roll.’ And I just looked at him and I swear [mouthing ‘this sucks’] like that and he looked at me and goes ‘It’s a challenge’ (while nodding her head)”
Well, turns out that this wasn’t the only incident/accident that happened on the sets ofEdge of Tomorrow.As per the reports, after missing her mark, Emily Blunt slammed the car right into a tree almost killing Cruise who was sitting in the passenger seat!
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When Emily Blunt Almost Killed Tom Cruise
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It seems that the duo of Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt may have had some extreme fun while working on the sets ofEdge of Tomorrow.As per film trivia, there was a scene where Blunt was instructed to drive fast and take a right turn. Well, she missed the mark and slammed the car right into a tree.
The harrowing thing was that Tom Cruise was sitting right beside her in the passenger seat. After the crash, both looked at each other and started laughing as they both cheated death. All that fun and death-defying paid off in the end asEdge of Tomorrowreceived a rating of 7.9/10 on IMDB and 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. The 2014 movie is currently available to stream on Max in the U.S.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
