Movie Scenes That Nearly Killed Tom Cruise

During production on Edge of Tomorrow, Cruise's co-star Emily Blunt was certainly impressed with his willingness to step up to the plate when it came to dangerous shots, telling Conan, "He really does everything and wants to do everything even if the stunt guys and the producers are like, 'Please don't do that.'" Cruise's enthusiasm for doing his own stunts inspired her to give it a shot, too.

"We were driving this crazy old car with a trailer behind it, and the stunt guy was like, 'I want you to go really fast down the pass and take a really hard right and I want the trailer to swing out behind you, so get it moving,'" she recalled. "We do the first take, it went really well. Stunt guy came over and was like, 'Okay, just do it again, and try to do it even faster.' I was like, 'Okay, no problem.' We start—I tear down this path, and Tom is being very quiet, and suddenly I hear him under his breath as I approach the right-hand turn, I hear him going, 'Brake, brake brake' ... I left it too late and drove us into a tree. And I almost killed Tom Cruise."