Actor Tom Cruise visited Korea for the 12th time through ‘Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning’.Tom Cruise was tight-lipped about the speculation that this film would be the last in the ‘Mission Impossible’ series, but continued to emphasize his next goal.

On the afternoon of the 8th, a press conference for the movie ‘Mission Impossible - Final Reckoning’ (hereafter referred to as ‘Mission 8’) was held at Lotte Cinema World Tower 21 in Songpa-gu, Seoul.Actors Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff, Greg Tarzan Davis, and director Christopher McQuarrie attended the event.

Tom Cruise said about his 12th visit to Korea, “It’s really amazing.Korea is such a beautiful country.I’m so happy to be able to come back to Korea with this movie.I poured five years into this movie.It’s an honor to be here.”



He also added about presenting the last series of ‘Mission Impossible’ this time, “Making a movie is special.It’s been my dream since I was little.When I was a 4-year-old kid, I dreamed of traveling around the world and making movies.I made my first movie when I was 18.I thought I should pour everything I have into movies and storytelling.I also thought I wanted to do this for the rest of my life.That’s who I am.I’m really grateful.I think it’s a privilege every day.Thank you for allowing me to entertain you all.”

Tom Cruise, who meets the audience with a more advanced appearance in each series, explained, “I have a desire to make it better.After finishing a movie, we say, ‘Can we do better than this?’ We set a goal and try to achieve it.Then there is a goal and we try to go to the next level.We want to surpass the action, story, and characters from before.”



Tom Cruise, who also performed the action scene of climbing onto the wing of an airplane in this film, said, “It was scary to do.It wasn’t easy,” and recalled, “I always talk about the story with the director.That was one of my dreams when I was young.When I was young, I imagined climbing onto the wing of an airplane.At first, the director joked and said, ‘Do you want to climb onto the wing?’ and it happened.But it takes years to do that.You have to make sure it works out well.I also visited Africa, and it wasn’t easy physically.I had no choice but to focus on how to move the airplane.”

Director Christopher McQuarrie opened up about filming underwater, saying, “The scariest part was the unknown.When we were planning and shooting, we didn’t know what we didn’t know based on what we had learned from the aerial scenes.That was scary.Tom was wearing a mask, and it was cinematic but not efficient.That was the hard part of filming.”





Tom Cruise added, “The 125-pound wetsuit was heavy.I was breathing oxygen, and the air was trapped in the mask.It was hard to breathe.I had to get the camera and recover quickly and be ready to shoot again.The director kept checking to make sure I was safe.”

When asked about an episode while filming this movie, Simon Pegg said, “It was fun filming in the Arctic Circle.We lived on an icebreaker and filmed on the ocean.At night, we had snacks and played poker on the ship.It was exciting to live in a place where humans are not supposed to live on Earth.We had to look at each other and check if our noses were okay.”





Tom Cruise responded to the rumor that this film is the last in the Mission Impossible series by saying, “I basically want the audience to enjoy this film.It is the culmination of MI franchise for 30 years.I don’t want to say anything more than that.But I like making movies.I like showing good movies to the audience.”

Tom Cruise, who enjoys dangerous experiences through movies every time, said, “I enjoy pressure and challenges.I take on challenges in my personal life and apply them to storytelling.I have to do it for real rather than on paper.I enjoy the pressure that comes from the unknown.I wake up in the morning and don’t know what will happen today.It took a lot of courage to film the aerial scenes.It was harder than I thought, both in the air and underwater.But we take responsibility for this.I took responsibility as an actor, wanted to do this, and was responsible as someone who created this.Of course, I took on very extreme challenges, and there were uncomfortable moments.But that’s where the adrenaline comes from.”

He added, “I was successful when I was young, so I was asked where I would go from here.I said, ‘I’m just warming up.’ I’m just going to go to the next stage where I can apply what I’ve learned.I have many personal goals and many movies to make in the future.It’s never-ending.This is my passion.”

Meanwhile, ‘Mission Impossible - Final Reckoning’ is an action blockbuster about Ethan Hunt(Tom Cruise)and IMF team, who are pushed into a life-or-death crisis that threatens all of humanity, risking their lives and jumping into a single mission where all choices lead to success.It will be released in Korea on the 17th.

Reporter Yoonna Choi com Donga.com yyynnn@donga

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