Tom Cruise was hanging from a plane, while filming the scenes for the new part of Mission: Impossible

Hollywood star Tom Cruise has revealed that he frequently passed out while performing a crucial stunt in his upcoming spy action film Mission: Impossible 8, where he had to hang onto a plane while he was upside down at an altitude of 10,000 feet.

From shooting an action sequence on a speeding train to skydiving and scaling the top of the tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa, Cruise has perhaps done it all when it comes to death-defying stunts. But it was this specific sequence in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning which wasn’t a cakewalk even for the action legend. In an interview with the Empire magazine, Cruise, 62, said he experienced a lack of oxygen during the stunt.

“When you stick your face out, going over 120 to 130 miles an hour, you’re not getting oxygen. So I had to train myself how to breathe. There were times I would pass out physically; I was unable to get back into the cockpit,” he said.

The sequence, which saw the actor hanging from the wing of a 1930s Boeing Stearman biplane, was featured in the teaser trailer of the movie which was released two months ago. On Friday, Cruise also shared a behind-the-scenes video of filming the same sequence on his X handle with a caption “Hang on”.