Tom Cruise has always been a total daredevil.
He's scaled buildings, hung off the side of planes, and rode fast motorcycles.
But if there was one stunt that left him queasy, it wasn't heights or even the time he broke his ankle.
Nope, it was chocolate cake. Keep reading to learn how this one stunt left him sick to his stomach.
Or, by the fact that he's still performing his own dangerous stunts.
It's something he's been doing his entire career, like when he worked on The Outsiders during the '80s. He was the only actor who could do a backflip.
The backflip even made it into the film for "no reason," Lowe said. "Just to do it," he said about Tom.
One of the most dangerous stunts he's performed himself was scaling the world's tallest building in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol in 2011.
He dangled in a harness 1,700 feet off the ground in a harness that was removed in post-production.
He performed the stunt eight times off the massive Airbus A400M, which reached heights of 5,000 feet.
"I was scared [expletive]" Cruise admitted at CinemaCon. "I want to keep audiences on the edge of their seats."
Back in 2017, he broke his ankle while performing a stunt in Mission: Impossible - Fallout.
This took place during a rooftop chase stunt filmed in London. While on The Graham Norton Show in 2018, he explained how the injury happened.
“I knew instantly my ankle was broken and I really didn’t want to do it again so just got up and carried on with the take."
In addition to physical harm, the actor has experienced stunts that made him want to vomit.
He shared this interesting fact during a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show.
"I was working with [director Francis Ford] Coppola, and I was like, 'You know what, I'm going to eat chocolate cake in the scene.'... I had to do it in the scene, it's part of the character, I'm going to eat chocolate cake," he said.
While you would think having to eat endless amounts of chocolate cake would be heaven, it left Cruise in "sugar shock."
This made him vomit, he said.
When Chris Evans filmed Knives Out, director Rian Johnson thought that it would be neat for Chris's character, Ransom, to eat a lot of Belgium cookies (they went great with those cable-knit sweaters).
Yikes! Well, we're sure Tom Cruise would take chocolate cake or Belgium cookies over breaking his ankle off a building again!
For more of his interview with Graham Norton, check it out here.
