#SHOWBIZ: Tom Cruise always eats 'massive breakfast' before daredevil stunts
The 62-year-old Hollywood legend famously hung off a military plane in the opening scene of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, and has done numerous jaw-dropping aerial sequences in the film series where he plays Mission Force agent Ethan Hunt.
Cruise told People magazine recently that he has to be fuelled with energy before he does his stunts and he will eat "almost a dozen" eggs with bacon and sausages and down several cups of coffee before the cameras start rolling.
He said: "The amount of energy it takes - I train so hard for that wing-walking."
In the eighth instalment of the critically acclaimed action movie series, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning - which will be released later this month - Cruise experienced what it was like to spin inside a washing machine as the crew built a tank to shoot a submarine interior that tilted and spun 360 degrees.
Wearing a Scuba mask, Cruise breathed in his own carbon dioxide but did not need to worry as the pilot had trained for carbon dioxide build-up for when he earned his wings in 1994.
The Oscar-nominated actor explained: "You're not going to feel as connected with the character if I went with a regular mask and a thing in my mouth to breathe.
"Luckily when you're flying jets you train for hypoxia and for carbon dioxide build-up. You start to be able to perceive your body and how it's reacting so that I knew when to stop."
Cruise - who was inspired to do stunts after seeing footage of wing-walkers as a child - said that he loved making movies, even if it means dicing with death.
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