Tom Cruise took his daredevil stunts to new heights while filming Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning, but the actor admitted that he almost walked away with a life-altering injury.

Cruise, 63, provided commentary in bonus content featured in the film’s digital release, sharing that the scene in which he hung off of a biplane was quite painful.

“Oh, this almost broke my back,” he noted as the scene played over the commentary, to which director Christopher McQuarrie replied, “You’re talking about a lot of pain here.”

Cruise also revealed that the crew had to “shoot in Africa twice because of the weather and the cold, and it was so demanding.”

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“And once you shot it for real, there was no way to fake it,” McQuarrie added.

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