Tom Cruise told Empire magazine that he breathed in his own carbon dioxide while filming a grueling action set piece for the upcoming “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.” The sequence finds Cruise’s Ethan Hunt underwater exploring the wreckage of a submarine. The action scene was filmed in a an “8.5 million liter water tank on a gimbal that can rotate on command,” Empire reports. “Cruise dons a specially-designed suit and mask” but “he can only wear the gear for 10 minutes at a time, before suffering from hypoxia (an absence of oxygen in body tissue).”
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