Tom Cruise on Developing Stuntman Skills at an Early Age: ‘I Was the Kid Who Would Climb to the Rafters’

Sharing why it took more than 30 years to release a sequel, Cruise said at Wednesday’s premiere, “For Top Gun, they go, ‘Why 36 years?’ I wasn’t ready in ’86. I remember the studio wanted to make a sequel immediately, and I was like, ‘I don’t want to do it, I need to grow as an artist, I need to understand what cinema is.’ Some of the things that I’ve learned, in terms of Mission: Impossible, in doing sequels I learned that I can have a dialogue with an audience. I didn’t expect to have that.”

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