‘I was set on fire’: Stuntwomen push themselves to the extremes

As Tom Cruise returns with his latest action movie, Rita de Brún meets two of the stunt women who risk their lives on film sets, performing stunts on everything from Vikings to Batgirl

Lucy Johnson: "You’re having to convince yourself to let go of a moving vehicle and just smash onto the tarmac."

Stunt performance is endlessly thrilling and perilous. It’s a body-battering, life-risking craft.

It’s why Tom Cruise is all over the news right now. The world is wowed by the actor’s performance in his latest film: Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. In that, he rides a motorbike off a mountain, before gliding to the ground.