Tom Cruise 'breaks two bones' as Mission: Impossible 6 stunt goes wrong and will need 'months' to recover
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Tom Cruise could be out of action for months after reportedly breaking two bones while filming the new Mission: Impossible movie.
He's a Hollywood mega star famed for doing his own dangerous and death-defying stunts.
But Tom's daredevil ways almost got the better of him after he spectacularly crashed into a wall on the set of Mission: Impossible 6.
And it turns out that Tom could need months to recover from his injuries after breaking two bones, according to The Sun .
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A film insider said: "The injury is worse than was at first feared. Tom did serious damage and will need months to recover.
"He is the film's biggest star and everything revolves around him. The movie's bosses had no choice other than to postpone the filming."
The 55-year-old actor was filming scenes for the upcoming action flick in central London when he was spotted perilously dangling from a crane by ropes.
As the dramatic footage shows, fearless Tom took a brave leap between two buildings.
The star misjudged the leap, momentarily flailing in midi air, and then went crashing into what looked like a brick wall.
He was seen momentarily struggling to hang on to the side of the building - with his bare hands - before struggling to pull himself up following the tumble.
His brush with danger left Tom literally on his knees, before he managed to pull himself off and limp away with an apparent injury to the ankle.
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He was filming in Blackfriars, central London, but after X-rays revealed the extent of the damage, he's reportedly going back to the US for treatment.
Reprising his role as U.S. government operative Ethan Hun, Tom has shown an unnerving willingness to do his own stunts throughout the movie franchise.
In an interview on ITV's Lorraine Tom said: "It's not that I don't get scared when I'm doing these things. It's that I don't mind being scared."
For the last Mission Impossible flick 2015, Tom was filmed hanging from a plane with just a small wire lies between him and certain death.
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In 2011 - to the insurers delight - the actor dangled from the world's tallest building, the 123-story Burj Khalifa in Dubai while shooting Mission Impossible: The Ghost Protocol.
Director Brad Bird told The New York Daily News of his sleepless nights ahead of filming.
He said: "One night, after one of the earliest shooting days, I bolted up in bed realizing that we had our star dangling about a mile up in the air on a thin wire and my brain was screaming, ‘What the hell are we doing?’"