People who have watched and enjoyed Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible – Fallout would recall the actor operating a chopper with great ease. The star spent around 2,000 hours to learn how to fly a helicopter. 

 

The Top Gun actor is one of Hollywood’s most prominent actors. People like him for his brilliant acting skills and action sequences. While the actor has many hit films to his credit, he has become synonymous with the Mission Impossible franchise. 

 

The actor’s perseverance in coming up with mesmerizing action sequences in his films has made him a household name. His enthusiasm towards making sure that his stunts are perfect has been also showcased in the 2018 film Mission Impossible-Fallout.

 

People who have watched the film will recollect Cruise’s character, Ethan Hunt, flying a copter. The stunt had a significant impact in the film and so the star left no stones unturned to make it perfect. Very few people are aware that the Hollywood A-lister spent around 2,000 hours to learn flying and become a certified helicopter pilot 

 

Tim McAdams, the Airbus Chief Instructor praised Tom Cruise saying he has come across only a handful of flying students who possess the focus and dedication level of the actor. On the other hand, Wade Eastwood, the stunt coordinator of the film opined that a film like Mission Impossible has to look real in all aspects.

 

He feels that viewers today have become intelligent enough to detect when they are being tricked, Koimoi.com reports. 

 

In other news, the Top Gun star has been immensely generous to his co-workers and pals. He allowed actress Jessica Chastain to quit his movie so that she could bag the role of the lead character in Zero Dark Thirty. The actor also makes it a point to send a birthday gift to his co-star Dakota Fanning in the War of the Worlds every year since she was just 11-year-old.

 

Filmmaker Cameron Crowe revealed that a different child artist was initially chosen to play the role of Renee Zellweger’s child in the film Jerry Maguire. However, the child actor lost his momentum after a few weeks of shooting and was replaced. Cruise went out of his ways to ensure that the kid was not disappointed and cheered the little one up by sending him gifts and cute letters. 

 

The child’s mother called up the filmmaker to let Cruise know that her son was doing fine. When Crow asked Cruise why he did so, the actor replied that he did not want the child to go to a movie hall and think that he had failed as an actor. 

 

Tom Cruise wanted the child actor to continue being fond of films throughout his life. The actor has been equally focused on his professional life, Hindustan Times reports.