Watch Tom Cruise Roll a Fiat 500 in ‘Mission: Impossible’

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Ethan Hunt has discovered himself in lots of elaborate automotive chases all through the “Mission: Impossible” franchise. But whereas the stunts have gotten larger, this time, the automotive has shrunk.

In “Dead Reckoning Part One,” a Fiat 500 turns into the star of a sequence set in Rome involving Ethan (Tom Cruise) and Grace (Hayley Atwell). The two discover themselves handcuffed to one another as Ethan will get behind the wheel of their tiny getaway car.

Narrating the scene, the director Christopher McQuarrie mentioned the inspiration for it occurred to him when he was scouting places in Paris for a chase sequence in “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” and got here throughout a Fiat 500 parked alongside the Seine.

“I thought it would be great, the idea of watching Ethan Hunt and Tom Cruise driving in a car like that,” he mentioned.

This scene contains extra humorous moments than the sequence’ earlier automotive chases. And it entails Cruise having to navigate the Fiat round cobblestone streets, which the actor did himself.

A climactic second within the scene entails the Spanish Steps, when the Fiat bumbles its approach proper down the monument.

The manufacturing was not allowed to let automobiles really contact the steps, in order that they constructed a reproduction of the landmark on a backlot and tumbled the car down there.