Tom Cruise is known for suffering for his art, but just how much is revealed in a bonus feature as part of the digital release of “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.” The A-list actor and his director, Christopher McQuarrie, reveal during the movie’s climactic plane sequence that the joints in Cruise’s fingers separated from the sheer force the actor had to battle while dangling off the side of a biplane and holding onto the strap of a seat belt.

“Oh, this almost broke my back,” Cruise says in the commentary as the scene plays out (via Entertainment Weekly ) as McQuarrie adds: “You’re talking about a lot of pain here.”

“Now watch this: The thing we haven’t talked about, holding on to this belt,” McQuarrie points out as Cruise is seen in the film holding onto a seatbelt strap a

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