Tom Cruise doesn’t back down from a challenge! On Sunday, May 18, the Hollywood icon spoke with Access Hollywood's Emily Orozco at the New York premiere of "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning" where he explained how he pulled off his "intense" stunt of hanging off a plane.

Cannes: Cruise joined his director on 11 films, Christopher McQuarrie, for a deep-dive conversation at Cannes. “I’m a diehard believer in the big-screen experience,” said McQuarrie. “What makes film special is however many hundreds of strangers all come together to sit in the room and watch something together and experience something together.

"The Final Reckoning" sees Tom Cruise reprise his role as Ethan Hunt, working to save the world while performing death-defying acrobatics along the way. Cruise has performed his own stunts for the films,