I worked with Cruise. He wanted to do everything - including his own insert shots. We were set up to shoot an insert on his wristwatch with B Camera. We could’ve done it with the stand-in. But Tom wanted to do it so we waited. I have never, in 30+ years in film, seen another actor (and producer) who is more invested in a film. And not just in what he has to do, but what everyone is doing. He cares about all of it. Other actors. The crew. It’s incredible. There will never be another like him.
Michael and Cary have been in so many Great films through my life, and I was always captivated by their performance. They are both great film stars...and come across as nice folks.. which is always a bonus.
In "Top Gun", Whip Hubley plays Hollywood, who doesn't lose the plot at the start but is one of the trainees at Top Gun, and his RIO is Wolfman (Barry Tubb). The guy who loses it at the start is Cougar, played by John Stockwell. His RIO is Merlin, played by Tim Robbins (yes, that Tim Robbins). Cougar and Merlin were the pair originally slated to go to Top Gun from the USS Enterprise flight personnel. But he's too shaken up by the missile lock from the MiGs, and he stands down his active flight status, which allows Maverick and Goose to go instead. Whip Hubley's actress sister is Season Hubley, who played opposite Kurt Russell in two John Carpenter movies: "Elvis" (1979) and (in a smaller role) "Escape From New York" (1981). Hubley and Russell were married for three or four years.
Michael is right. Keith Campbell is the name of stuntman who did that wall jump stunt in Mission Impossible 1. Tom Cruise didn't get super committed to doing all of his own stunts until later in his career. Keith was on the Light the Fuse podcast a few years ago and told the story.
@@crankfastle8138 That's why I'm writing. There's no wall jump in the first movie. There are two serious stunts in that one: when the fish tank explodes behind the protagonist and when he descends into the computer room. Cruise did both. I can think that he is confusing it with the second movie, where there is a rock climbing scene at the beginning.
@@gaborlaufer8640 I think they talk when everything goes wrong in the embasy mission, after they kill the woman with the knife. It's not exactly a wall, is more like a big gate I think.
It's amazing to see Michael attempt to poke at Cruise, yet even more phenomenal that Elwes notes that such a ribbing just doesn't hold water. 😁 On a side note, I always wondered what it was like for Elwes on the set of "Glory".
The reason Tom started producing the MI movies was because they wouldn't let him do stunts, so he just took over. The only problem with him doing those stunts is that it's now a marketing thing. Come see the crazy stunts he did, the one he broke his leg on, the crazy airplane takeoff, etc. instead of marketing the actual movie
Hey, Michael, do the podcast with Richard Chaves (Poncho from Predator movie) He's brilliant. He returned recently. He was out of public eyes for years.
Sorry to be a nitpick but...The Firm was three years after Days Of Thunder. Whip Hubley played Hollywood who survived to the end of the film (got shot down in the final firefight, but was rescued). John Stockwell played Cougar at the beginning of the film. Interesting to know Biehn was offered that part.
Why is he ACTUALLY doubting that TC does his own stunts ("Really?... Really?...) because in 1995 he used a double to jump up a wall 😂😂. There's a comment on here I agree with - TC didn't get fully committed to stunts until much later are (read that as FULLY). Final thing - I'm English and DIDN'T know that CE is English!!! I was also going to ask about SF2 but a I see someone has asked it. 'Guile' for me.
Rebecca Ferguson's Ilsa Faust character that we all loved for many years is being killed off like a chicken and becoming a corpse on the Venice bridge , and that is far more sad than his character death
It's interesting that Elwes now has fairly rhotic Rs ("carrrs" instead of "cahhs"), which I assume is from his many years in the States, as he's from the southeast of England which doesn't have any rhoticity. He now has a sort of hybrid accent that makes him sound like he was originally from Bristol or Somerset.
I imagine it has something to do with TC being 5’7” and not being able to jump to the top of the wall. While Tom’s workout routine is fantastic for his upper body he lacks lower leg development. So his lack of a vertical jump is somewhat of a failure or makes him a more average human with faults. 😂
Tom is awesome but he’s gets so much attention for his stunt work that Stallone doesn’t get himself. Stallone has done just as much as Tom and even more physically demanding and dangerous stunts. Tom does very grandiose stunts, such as jumping out of planes, but he has a very good health and safety team that ensure all his stunts are as safe as possible and I don’t believe has taken the risks Stallone has with what he has done. The margin for error with toms stunts is so small in comparison to doing a fight scene with a guy who’s 50 to 100lbs heavier and 6 inches or more, and not just that, Stallone has also dived off of waterfalls, falling off of cliffs, been thrown through windows etc. They are both awesome, the mission impossible films are awesome, but I just never understood why Stallone who has been doing this a lot longer than Tom and has had around 10 back surgeries in the last 10 years as well as breaking his neck in the first expendables, has never got the same sort of respect and admiration Tom has.
I appreciate your perspective and you make good points. Stallone is awesome and very committed with his stunts, but until he rides a motorcycle of a ramp/cliff and then successfully pulls a parachute avoiding the side of the cliff or hangs on to the side of a giant jet during take off or does his own stunt flying in planes and helicopters... I'm going to have to give Cruise the #1 pedestal. 🙂
@@dalewoodring5887 Stallone is afraid of heights. This is why you never saw him do stuff like that. Not only that, he’s almost 20 years older than Tom. Remember, he was 64 when he made the expendables. Tom is still a baby in comparison, he’s not had the sort of injuries Stallone has had, but of course he has got injured. Don’t get me wrong, I love toms movies. The last samurai is probably my favourite movies of his. I watch all of his new movies. But, again, that stunt with the bike and cliff, had a lot of people go out of there way to make sure it was as safe as possible, it had a lot and I mean a lot of planning before it was done. I know it still has risks, of course, something things are unpredictable, sometimes the wind can change at a time, sometimes variables happen. It’s not really about who is better, it’s just that Stallone has jumped out of helicopters, and part of the reason he did cliffhanger was because he wanted to try and deal with is fear of heights. Sly has done crazy fights scenes with enormous men, pro wrestlers etc, and according to himself, he is the only actor whose is a member of all 3 major stunt organisations in Hollywood. Anyway, he’s 78 and still doing a lot of his own stuff, ever since he broke his neck I have seen more stunt doubles used because of the risk for injury could possibly paralyse him now. But generally he still does a lot of his own work and has said he hasn’t been the same since he broke it in the expendables. This hasn’t yet happened to Tom and hopefully it won’t but he needs to be careful about how far he’s willing to push it because something might happened to him that happened to Stallone.
@axelstone3131 Can't really compare having fights with enormous men versus scaling the tallest building in the world or riding a bike off a cliff lol. I'm the biggest Sly fan and the Rocky series is my favorite series, but I gotta give it to Tom here if we're comparing them. Can't forget Jackie Chan either who is a stuntman legend.
@@jdxsr85 I’m not talking just about his fights that’s just one example. At the end of the day like I said, toms safety team make it so the chances of anything happening are minimal at best. It’s not all that impressive once you underhand that. It’s impressive for sure, the only reason Stallone doesn’t do those kind of jumps is because he doesn’t like heights like I said, and again toms is 18 years younger.
