Tom Cruise makes a bold statement about his future retirement from Hollywood
Executing the 'Mission: Impossible' stunts is risky business for an actor at any age.
But 62-year-old Tom Cruise says he wants to keep pushing the limits until he's in the triple digits.
When asked at the New York premiere of 'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning' on Sunday about a remark he made two years prior that he hopes to continue his film career until he's Harrison Ford's age, 82, the actor took it a big step further.
'I actually said I'm going to make movies into my 80s,' he told the Hollywood Reporter. 'Actually, I'm going to make them into my 100s.'
4 Tom Cruise says he wants to continue making movies 'into my 100s.'
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Cruise, who performs the lion's share of his own stunts onscreen, added, 'I will never stop. I will never stop doing action, I will never stop doing drama, comedy films. I'm excited.'
The 'Top Gun: Maverick' star certainly hasn't eased up in 'The Final Reckoning.' In the film, Cruise death-defyingly clings to a biplane while it's midair, performs bruising fights and a paralyzing underwater sequence.
For now, the workload looks good on him.
4 At 62, Cruise still performs the lion's share of his own stunts in films.
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In a 3 ½-star review, The Post said the athletic actor comes off as 'more of a high school senior than a senior citizen.'
Cruise also reportedly maintains a strict diet to stay fit, eating 15 snacks per day rather than three traditional meals and noshing on steamed fish and vegetables sans oil or sauce. He's said to work out five days a week.
But once he's about to do any stunt, he piles on the calories. Before the biplane feat, he said he ate a 'massive breakfast.'
4 In 'The Final Reckoning,' Cruise frighteningly clings to a biplane in midair.
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While a 100-year-old performer is rare in Hollywood, actors today are working well into their 90s.
Last year, June Squibb starred in the assisted-living action-comedy 'Thelma' at age 94. Rita Moreno starred in the road-trip flick '80 for Brady' at 91. And Clint Eastwood's most recent film where he acted, 2021's 'Cry Macho,' hit theaters as he was turning 90.
At the premiere, Cruise did insist that wherever his talents land, they likely won't be used for future 'Mission: Impossible' movies.
4 Cruise said 'The Final Reckoning' really is the last 'Mission: Impossible' movie.
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'It's the final!,' he said. 'It's not called 'final' for nothing.'
But, the actor recently told the 'Today Show Australia,' he's pondering sequels to some of his most popular films.
'Yeah, we're thinking and talking about many different stories and what could we do and what's possible,' Cruise said. 'It took me 35 years to figure out 'Top Gun: Maverick', so all of these things we're working on, we're discussing 'Days of Thunder' and 'Top Gun: Maverick.''
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