VIDEO: Tom Cruise says stunts possible thanks to ‘years of practice’

Tom Cruise put his eye-watering stunts down to years of practice, as he attended the UK premiere of Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation.

The 53-year-old Hollywood A-lister performs his own stunts, as he does reprising the role of spy Ethan Hunt in the fifth instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise.

Appearing on the red carpet at the London Imax last night, Cruise spoke about the gruelling action scenes, many of them filmed on the streets of London.

He said: “I have trained my whole life, constantly, whether it’s drama or action. I don’t sleep much and I love what I do, so I’m working many long hours.

“I usually will break the film down in sequences — I work with the stunt team to train and train.

“I’ve been doing it for so long, and I never take anything for granted. When we come up with things, there’s so many on every film I can’t include them all.”

Cruise added: “I want something that’s cinematic, that’s character and story — for me, story is king. We have to find ways of putting the audience inside that character. You want those shots, but it has to be the right tone — something exhilarating and spine tingling.”