Will Smith Realized ‘I’m Not Better Than Tom Cruise’ When Making ‘Bad Boys For Life’

Will Smith came to a revelation about Tom Cruise when he was filming Bad Boys For Life in 2019. 

Will Smith Realized ‘I’m Not Better Than Tom Cruise’ When Making ‘Bad Boys For Life’

The 52-year-old actor went into the movie believing that he would do all of his stunts without a stunt double. 

However, he quickly realized that he is “not better than Tom Cruise.”

Will Smith wanted to channel Tom Cruise’s stunts in ‘Mission Impossible’

Before Smith began filming Bad Boys For Life, Cruise’s latest Mission Impossible film came out: MI: Fallout. 

According to Vox, the actor, who was 55 years old at the time, performed all of the death-defying stunts. 

One of the feats resulted in two broken ankle bones and a three-month shooting delay, but that didn’t stop Cruise from performing every stunt after he recovered. 

Since the first Mission: Impossible film in 1996, each subsequent movie goes to more extraordinary lengths to top the previous one’s action. 

In the first four of the action spy films, Cruise performed the majority of his stunts, including suspending from a ceiling and climbing up a cliff’s side. 

According to Men’s Journal, the series went on he jumped off of a skyscraper and then hung off one of the world’s tallest buildings, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. 

Will Smith Realized ‘I’m Not Better Than Tom Cruise’ When Making ‘Bad Boys For Life’

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