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Rome (EFE) race due to the pandemic: “I always force myself to go further,” he assured EFE during his visit to Rome.
At 60, Cruise explained that behind this effort is always his goal of “making the best film for the audiences”, while Simon Pegg, who plays the “right hand” of the protagonist, defined the film as “another mission impossible”.
“It was another impossible mission, parallel to the real ‘Mission: Impossible,’” recalls the actor, who made his debut in the saga in 2006 as the charismatic Benji Dunn and since then has not missed any delivery.
Entitled “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning”, the new cinematographic adventure arrives in theaters, divided into two parts, the first opens on July 12 and the second will do so in June 2024, after countless postponements that have not been made. more than increase the expectation around the film.
With an estimated budget of $300 million, the shoot was the first to be affected by the pandemic: Cruise and his crew were in northern Italy when that part of the country became the western epicenter of the coronavirus in February 2020. , days before the whole world stopped.
However, it was also the first Hollywood production to resume activity with a strict protocol that set the tone for the rest of the industry and that allowed them to film in the empty streets of Venice and Rome, for once free from the millions of tourists who visit them all year round.
“Thank you Italy for allowing us to film during such difficult times”
Cruise acknowledged the difficulties during the world premiere of the film on the emblematic stairs of Plaza España in the “Eternal City”, the setting chosen for the event.
“I want to thank Rome and Italy for allowing us to shoot here during such difficult times, it was an honor and a dream,” he told the hundreds of onlookers gathered there.
Some of the most impressive scenes in the new film take place in the Italian capital, such as a dizzying chase lasting more than 20 minutes in which Cruise and his new adventure partner, the British Hayley Atwell, tour the surroundings of the Colosseum aboard a old Fiat 500.
Three years after filming it, director Christopher McQuarrie acknowledges to EFE that he remains “impressed” that the city gave them “permission to make it possible.” “I don’t think I’ll see something like that again,” he adds.
Shooting that scene, one of the milestones of a film that promises constant adrenaline, required more than 40 days of work in a Rome emptied of tourists and confined under strict sanitary measures in the infamous March 2020.
“We trained several months beforehand to do it in safe conditions,” Atwell points out. We were aware of the beauty of the city, we wanted to make sure that we could fully respect it.”
Atwell, who debuts in the saga as the new ally (Grace) of the protagonist (Ethan Hunt), does not hesitate to affirm that Cruise’s “work ethic” and “discipline” were decisive in continuing with the project.
“We experienced it as yet another obstacle, there was a lot of hope in us and we knew that we had to keep going, no matter what happened,” he told EFE.
A trip around the world
In his new mission, Agent Hunt must track down a new computer weapon that threatens humanity before it falls into the wrong hands, leading him to travel the world on a relentless run.
Rome, Venice, Abu Dhabi and the Swiss Alps are some of the places where Cruise and the rest of the cast unleash an assortment of impressive stunts, fights and chases against a new villain with unknown intentions: Gabriel, played by the Latino Esai Morales. .
“Tom Cruise, McQuarrie and Paramount are geniuses at what they do, and they do it better every time,” Morales told EFE. The result is impressive and you have to see it in the cinema”.