Tom Cruise Has Never Been Happy with His Breath-Defying Underwater Scenes, So ‘Final Reckoning’ Went Three Times Bigger

Tom Cruise Has Never Been Happy with His Breath-Defying Underwater Scenes, So ‘Final Reckoning’ Went Three Times Bigger

Tom Cruise did his first underwater scene for “Legend” (1985), followed by executing far more demanding scenes in “Edge of Tomorrow” (2014) and most famously “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” (2015), where he held his breath for six-and-a-half minutes. But when writer/director Christopher McQuarrie, who has made eleven films with Cruise, was on the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, he made clear the duo walked away from “Rogue Nation” deeply dissati…