【期間限定】トム・クルーズ M:I8の来日記者会見に登場 映画「ミッション：インポッシブル/ファイナル・レコニング」来日記者会見
Okay, please look at the front. This is the Mission Impossible that can’t be topped and we are excited to welcome the producer and star Mr. Tom Cruz. So, welcome Tom. And oh, if you could get the grab the microphone next to you, if you get speak a few words. Thank you so much for the warm welcome. I’m very excited to be back here. Thank you. Thank you. We missed uh I’ve missed you all. So, it’s wonderful to be here. Well, welcome to this press conference. So, please have a seat. So, thank you. So the still photographers will not be allowed to take pictures from now on. So I appreciate your understanding. Thank you for cooperation. So now we’d like to keep on. And uh so last night, Tom, you had a big scale red carpet and you saw the movie together at the Japan premiere with all the audiences. And how was that? It was uh extraordinary. It was it was so beautiful. Uh the cast that were there last night, they we waited to show it to them until we had this audience. So it was enormously uh special. Mchugh and I have been working on it. You know, you have to understand Dead Reckoning and The Final Reckoning, these two films, you know, along with Top Gun Maverick, we were working on them for seven years. Wow. Seven years. Took seven years. Wow. And we finished the film. The subtitles were done just days before. So, it was just just out there and ready to go. Yes. And it look the it just takes a long time making these movies. They’re very detailed and very challenging and uh it was a magnificent night for all of us for Mchugh and I and to see it with the audience and and share in that and to receive the response uh you know it was amazing and the audience at the end of the movie was a standing ovation. Yes. And I’d like to just take this moment to thank the audience for that. It meant uh a tremendous amount to me and Mchugh and and the whole cast. It’s, you know, I I make movies and Mchugh and I make our films for audiences and to receive that acknowledgement. Uh I just that’s our dream to make people smile and lift their spirits and make them feel that, you know, they they just were were sent to a different place and and engage in cinema. So it was I will never forget that evening. I know on behalf of our cast and our crew, I just want everyone that was there and and the whole audiences in Japan, I just want to thank you so much for that. I I’ll never forget it. And it’s such a rare gesture for the Japanese audience to stand up and give a standing ovation. So, it means so much. That means we enjoyed it so much. Oh, that was amazing. Thank you. And we were waiting for this moment. Thank you. For you to come. Thank you so much. And I’ve been waiting too. And I would also, if I could just take a moment, I I would like to thank someone who’s very special to me and very special to cinema here uh in Japan. Toanisan, where are you? She’s in the Toisan who also her and her team worked very hard. Yes. To do the subtitles and you finished it just days before Totoan. and she has subtitled over 1,500 films in her career. Yeah. And she is receiving an award, The Order of the Rising Sun. So, I would like to applaud you. Thank you very much. And thank you so much. You are my You’ve done all my movies and subtitled them and translated for me and from the beginning. Yes. And we are born on the same day. Same birthday, July the 3. Yeah. Thank you, Tom, for the kind words. Thank you very much. [Applause] Thank you. Thank you. Yes, it means so much to all of us. Yes. And so this movie, I mean, I had a I had the privilege to watch it in advance. Um, it was just remarkable. I mean, it’s so exciting. I mean, I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. Good and at the same time so emotional. I was in tears throughout the movie because it’s just it’s the sum of all the Mission Impossible series here. Yes. Yes. Yes. For 30 years and what Christopher McCory has done. Uh I just think look, everyone knows how I feel about him. He’s exceptional storyteller and you see how he has interwoven the entire franchise into this and how the film has all led to this to this picture. And um you’ve mentioned before that you feel privileged to entertain audiences and why is that and what makes you the way you do it in mission movies so impos so special to you? Making movies is very special to me. It’s something that it’s not what I do. It it is who I am and to have a dream. I remember as a child, four years old, I wanted to make movies and I wanted to travel the world and I wanted to learn all of these things and learn about people and culture and I wanted to fly jets and airplanes and parachutes and motorcycles and cars and and you know, learn how to do samurai swords and and so to be able to live my dream and to be accepted and allowed to entertain audiences and It’s something that I I never take for granted. Ever. Ever. Ever. Every day on set, every day I’m preparing, I am thinking about this moment when an audience sits in that theater and watches it. And it is something that is a tremendous joy to me and I have dedicated my my life to it. It’s it’s everything that I do stems go comes from it. and I will learn a skill and then I’ll apply it um to cinema and I love storytelling. So it is a privilege. And what makes this Mission Impossible series so special to you? It was the very first film I ever produced. Uh and it’s been it’s just been very interesting the journey uh making these movies. They’re they’re what I wanted. I was able to really explore motion, explore uh in a very unique way. It has everything for me where it’s I get to take it and share different worlds, geography and cultures with the world, which was my goal with Mission Impossible, where I get to challenge myself as a producer, as an actor, as a storyteller, as as a with my stunts. So, if you know the every time I do the movie, I’m going how how do I make things better? How am I a better storyteller? How can I better produce these things? How can I be a better, you know, a a better artist uh to my cast, a better boss to my crew? To me, um to lead is to serve. That is how I live my life. that it is something that I am a constant student and also a teacher but I those things that interest me not even before movies I knew that you know when you take things on and with the responsibility that I feel and the joy that I feel in in creating these things and with you know it’s been a a tremendous honor and pleasure working with Christopher McCory and our entire cast that is enormously talented and and very giving and and really gave it their all. But I I expect that from myself and I expect it from others that I work with and I’ve making these movies. It’s not just me. It’s all of us together. And much like the IMF team family, you have described Christopher McCquari as your creative brother. He is my creative brother. Yes. And this is a partnership as at its absolute peak. So the culmination of everything you have done and learned together. So, we’d like to welcome him here on stage. Now, let’s welcome writer and director of Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, Mr. Christopher McQuary. [Music] [Music] So, if you could say a few few words to the audience, please. Hello everyone. Thank you for coming. Thanks very much. It’s a lovely welcome. Let’s get some photos here. You look at the center. Thank you. Well, thank you very much. Wave and wave to to the video cameras are at the back. Thank you very much. So, please take a seat. Once again, welcome to this press conference. Welcome. Welcome. So now the still photographers will not be allowed to take pictures from now on. And I would like to continue on with our talk. And so in this film, you literally had to face the elements in the sky and in underwater alongside Tom Cruz. And um we would like to hear more about this profound and pioneering partnership with Tom. Um it’s one that I describe as a very long conversation about movies. that’s occasionally introduc interrupted by production. It is what it’s like. We’re always telling stories. We drive to work together. We live together at times like through during the pandemic. Yes. We were we were the whole family quarantined together. Our families were quarantined together. You were together. Oh, the the the only time we saw the sun was walking to the car in the morning. Uh and and by the time we finished work, it was dark. And that was that was all during the the pandemic. While we were working on we were in Top Gun Maverick in post on Top Gun Maverick in production on Dead Reckoning and in prep on the final final Oh wow. Yeah. We’re doing all three movies at the same time. And you’re traveling together right now. Yes. Yes. Always. And his family. So we’re always we’ll we’ll drive together to work every morning and just talk about the movies and stories and other movies that we’re working on. We’re always working on several other movies as we’re shooting these movies. Who drives? Neither of us. Neither of us. He only drives on camera. Yes. I know. They They It’s like sometimes we’re going Sometimes I’ll drive you or I’ll fly you. That is true. I will fly you. Norway. Actually, in Norway, you had to drive us to work. Yes. That’s the only way to for us to get to work was for Tom. Yes. Tom was my driver. Yes. And I’m your pilot. I’ll fly you in the helicopter and in airplanes. I’ll fly you in. Tom is also my pilot. He flies me to work every day. I’m his driver. his pilot. How do you feel about flying together? Like as a pilot, how is Tom Cruz compared to Ethan? Well, it’s a when you see him fly on camera, it’s a little nerve-wracking to then fly to work off camera, but he separates the two. He doesn’t forget. I separate arerobatics. I warn you before I do it. I say, “Would you like a little arerobatics in the helicopter this morning?” There’s one time you did not warn me. Was that right? Yes. You got my attention. Which one do you uh we were in your helicopter and you I was looking out the window. We were in Norway. Oh, that’s right. Oh, that’s right. A very hard bank. Yeah, very hard bank. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry about that. Yeah. I usually warn everyone before I do arerobatics. Wow. That is also a moment. He knows I can handle it. So, we can handle it. Can handle it. I mean, you take all his you shoot all his movies, so you know about it. I’m used to it. Yeah. Yeah. You’re used to it by now. And also here, um Tom, I think you suggested that Christopher go out on the wing on the plane for this. Yes. Here’s the thing about Mchugh. When we were doing Top Gun Maverick, what I also love about him is his adventurous spirit. So, he will go and he flew I flew him in my airplane, my P-51 and an L39 and he went in different other fighter jets. And then on this film, we were talking about the wing walking and we were coming up with like I was, you know, I took him through because I’m an aerobatic pilot. It’s like the airplane can do this and do this and there was a lot of choosing the airplane and testing the airplane and it was years actually preparing this and then we talked about story and he was like okay I want you to go from here to here in a couple of seconds. I was like I can’t do that. He’s like okay well I want you to do this and this. I was like I really can’t do that. And it was simplest thing. Anything you would describe. He’d say no you you you actually can’t do that. I can’t do that. And I don’t hear can’t from him very often. I said just in terms of the speed because the force of the air for me to move quickly on the wing was you just can’t do it. You’re limited by the physics of how fast the aircraft is traveling and the force of the wind. That was utterly brutal. So I just said listen I think the best thing is is if you just do it. Go out sit in the airplane. Go out in the wing and feel it. Feel the pressure. So, here I am training, training him to go out, going through I had a 20-minute tutorial from 20-minute training. 20-minute tutorial on how to walk on the wing. Yes. And he walked on the wing. He did the walk. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. How was the walk? Uh, it was great, actually. It was a lot of fun. I would I would definitely do it again. But he also understood when the wind hits you, you stop breathing. Yeah. Yeah. Because the force of the wind, it’s you you don’t realize, but you’re you you can’t breathe the air in. It’s too much force. So, you have to I had to find ways to figure out how to keep my breath going with a, you know, the physical exertion of of being on that wing. So, now he had that reality and and it was also, you know, when we were doing the underwater sequence, he’s directing me underwater, which is very unusual. with having the director under there and we had hand signals to and the same thing when I’m on the wing we figured out hand signals he was in a helicopter and he would open the door and we’d go hand signals back and forth so that I knew what was happening like like for example what kind of Yes. And if I was in if there was any danger or there was trouble or if there was with light, you know, and he would direct me. We had hand signals for performance, you know, let’s do it again, you know, are you okay? You know, and I’d be like, you know, I’m okay. You know, this was light and this is I’m resting. Yeah. You know, I’m resting on the wing, you know. This is Yeah. This is I’m in I’m in trouble. You know, I hope you didn’t do that. Occasionally would fix his hair. Yeah. Occasionally. Occasionally it was like yeah sometimes you know we did it. It was it was very brutal being on the wing. It was it it exhausted every muscle in the body. I I can’t describe it like what I’m doing is not just walking on the wing. It is I’m I’m I’m acting and moving through space and you know I trained the pilot to be able to take the aircraft inverted and zero g and the aircraft when we went inverted would actually the engine would stop. So, but all of these things we worked very carefully for a long period of time and figuring out what I can do physically on it. And there were times I had no more energy. I couldn’t get if anyone’s ever done the hardest weight work of their life where they can’t move and their arms are shaking. That’s what it was like after a few minutes on that wing doing those things. So I had to train my body in a way that it would quickly the muscles would would process and and gain more fuel. So it was it was it was really fascinating and very intense and exhilarating and uh yeah very very challenging. I’ve I have never you know look many times in my life I put myself in a situation and we’ve been in situations that have been like or he’ll put me in that situation where we have never experienced anything like this and that’s what it was like on this with the aerial and with the submarine and when you mentioned the underwater sequence so Christopher you actually had a training for scuba diving yes in order to go underwater and direct there. Yes. As to you could stay stay up on land and still direct. Well, we had we had done that in the past. We we’ done underwater sequences before and what typically happens is the director is out of the water and you’re speaking through another person who’s talking on a microphone to everybody underwater. There’s a speaker under there and everyone can hear. And I describe that as trying to fix a pocket watch while you’re wearing boxing gloves because you’re talking through people. You c I can’t see Tom where he is in physical relation to the camera. I can only see what the camera sees. And so you have no spatial awareness and it and anytime you want to have any minor change, everyone has to come out of the water. you talk about it and so you could get about six shots a day and that that was very very timeconuming and for what we wanted to do we knew that wasn’t enough so we devised this program to start shooting where we were underwater where I was underwater with Tom and we were now shooting 22 24 shots a day we were shooting faster underwater than we were yes on land and that’s the whole thing you want to get as many shots as you can a day now you have to understand Both of these sequences took years to develop. It’s not just it’s developing and creating knowledge, the the tanks that we had to build, the the gimbals that we had to build for the underwater. And he and I are figuring out how we do it and me figuring out just the oxygen intake, the carbon dioxide buildup, the weight of the suit. You know, there are times when it was wet that it weighed 125 to 150 pounds and I’m having to do pull-ups and different things. When you see me going through that, it’s how do I move through space? And what we’ll do is is we talk about things and then we just start I I I kind of work out what can I do? How do we do it? And then he and I are kind of working on the visual language and he’s seeing where the camera is and can we do this? And we just go back and forth on it because look, movies, they’re a living thing. You can be in a room and try to, particularly these kinds of films, try to draw a picture or a CGI of what things are. We don’t do it that way. It’s it’s real and you’re dealing with physics. And so these kinds of things, we don’t know what the shots are until Well, we’ve tried to do it that way. We we animate the sequence. We animated the submarine. We animated the the aerial sequence. when you got on location and you hit physics head first, none of what you planned is actually achievable. It’s not it’s not real. Um and it and so we would have to then very quickly rethink what we were doing. And what we do is like I’ve been doing underwater sequences since I made Legend, you know, so and we’ve done several. And what we do is is we do a sequence and then we’re looking at it and study and go, okay, how can we do it better? How can we do it better? What story can we tell with this? How how can we do things better? We’re constantly trying to improve ourselves to to entertain an audience in in a in a really emotional and spectacular way. And that adds to that moment. Yes. Yes. Yes. And now uh the audiences love seeing the team come back together to tackle the impossible in these epic movies. But in this mission, for the first time ever, that team is separated from their heroic leader across the far reaches of the planet. So, let’s reunite them with their leader right now on stage here. Please welcome Haley Atwell, Simon Peg, Palm Clementf, and Greg Tarson Davis. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] now. Welcome everyone. And now if Haley, if you could give a few words, please. Yes. Oh. Oh, yeah. Can you get to close? Thank you. And we’ll do a photo we’ll do a final photo shoot at the end as well. So, yeah. So, yes. So, if you could say some few words. Of course, it’s an absolute pleasure to be here. It’s so exciting to be able to come and and start the press store here in Tokyo. We wanted to come before and uh so be able to be here is really precious. And last night was the first time I saw the movie, so I got to see it with Japanese fans at the same time. And that was so wonderful to see it through your eyes and thank you for your generosity and your support. We’re so so immensely proud of this movie and everything that it took. Um and I I love being in it as much as I love watching it as an audience member. So, thank you so much for having us. Thank you, Haley. And now, Simon. Oh, there’s a microphone right next to this chair. Yeah, uh, we had a we’ve had a wonderful time. Um, it’s been so brief. Uh, we leave today, but it was such an an honor to watch the film last night with a Japanese audience and feel the love in the room. Um, it was quite incredible and and somewhat moving. So, thank you so much everybody. Thank you. Thank you, Simon. And next, Palm, if you could say a few words. I think there’s a microphone right there. Hello. I’m just very happy to be here and to share the movie with all the fans from Japan. I love this country and um yeah, I love you guys. Thank you, Palm and Tarzen. Uh this is my first time out here and I’ve fallen in love with this country. I look forward to coming back. And it was amazing to share that experience of this movie with all of you. We’ve seen it for the first time with y’all and it was incredible to to experience that. So, thank you. Thank you, Tarzan. So, now if you could all take a seat, please. So, thank you. Still photographer, please uh stop taking photos right now. So now the whole team has reunited here. Welcome all of you. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. So the IMF team has evolved throughout the mission. And how would you describe these characters dynamic in the final reckoning? So Simon, what would you say? Well, this is um my character Benji’s first time leading a team, and he’s given an assassin, uh a government agent, and a thief. Um so, it’s not the easiest team to wrangle, but um it it was it’s so fun. These characters came into the story in the last film and are already so well drawn and so uh just brilliantly performed and um so it was an absolute pleasure to be their team leader. How satisfied were you? I was extremely satisfied. I think you got to we got to don’t give too much away the story. We got to let them get the story. Yeah. No, no, no. They got to see the movie, man. Uh there you go. S they got to see. Sorry. Spoiler alert. Uh I um yeah, 20 years ago this year, I shot my first scene for Mission Impossible. Um so it’s uh yeah, it’s it’s the culmination of so much work and experience and just um wonderful times. I saw him in Shawn of the Dead. I was like, “Oh my gosh, this guy is so talented.” I really was like, “Do you want to come make mission with me?” You know, come on, man. Come on. And he had on the first day he showed up and we gave him like a three-page monologue on the first day. On the first day and we rewrote it, I know on the morning of the shoot and I that was the first time I met Tom and Ving was they just strolled out of a door on set and I was just like, “Okay, this is real.” Yes, we were rewriting the monologue as he was saying it and yeah, it’s wonderful how that all and he was brilliant right from right from the beginning. His ability, you know, I just so admire his his ability, his drama, his comedy, his teammanship with everyone. It’s always a pleasure, you know, to work with him and uh we love him. Thanks, boss. Yeah, you’re amazing. And with all of these guys with all with with all of you. Yes. And Haley, how would you describe your character evol um evolution? In the first one, she spends the entire movie trying to get out of a Mission Impossible movie and try to get away from everyone. She She doesn’t know who to trust. She’s always been a lone wolf, independent, hypervigilant. I think that comes from a sense of real fear of belonging to a team. she’s never had the opportunity to do that. Um, and so to to it it takes the whole movie for Tom to convince her. And then, um, at the beginning of this one, she’s part of the team, but she’s still untrained. Uh, she she has kind of, um, an unfocused skill. I think that there is she’s capable of still making lots of mistakes because she doesn’t really fully know how high the stakes are for everyone. And I what I love about the emotion uh in this the team dynamic is now that we’re all working together uh for Grace at least it’s the an understanding that um the cost of belonging means that she’s now living with the fear of losing people that she loves. And that is the the the the the great potential sadness and the stake there is going if when we do care about each other um it couldn’t be scarier and more terrifying the idea of losing each other. And so now she is uh living for beyond her own personal ambition and living with a with a greater sense of purpose and meaning and realizing that we all need each other. We all have to depend on each other in order to to do the work that we’re setting out to do. and P your character. Oh, my character. Oh, I know. We gota we got to let them see the movie, guys. Yeah. No, I’m gonna I’m not I’m not going to say much, but again, a little bit like Haley’s character in the first movie, she was kind of like a lone wolf and um and then she gets to share more scenes with the other characters. Couldn’t be very mysterious. So, yeah. And you see a side of her that is more vulnerable in some ways. Yeah. Yeah. And that’s about much as you can say, right? Yeah, these guys are awesome. I just, you know what I mean? You really like you got to go see them. Go see the Of course, you play an important role in this team as well, right? Yeah. Uh I’m glad you see I play an important role in this. You do? No, no, no. I That’s why you’re here, man. That’s why I’m here. No. Um uh the evolution of Dega, it it was incredible uh to see him question something which I don’t think we saw that in any of the other films. somebody openly question if Ethan Hunt’s character is making the right decisions. And we see that in the previous films and uh in Final Reckoning, uh we see him make the decision on joining a particular side. I don’t know how much I can say. I’m like nervous now. Well, no, don’t worry, man. We’re all like we’re the team. We’re we’re okay, man. I I already blew it. We’re team. Yes. So, uh, he he made the right decision on, uh, fighting for, uh, uh, the side with these these lovely people up here. And, uh, I guess we’ll see if their hard work pays off. Yeah. And that’s about that’s as much as you could say, right? That that is about it. And I’ve I’ve never had like whenever I do interviews, I’m always nervous on what to say. I And I always joke like if I say anything, Tom is gonna swoop up and grab me. Right. Tom is right here. He’s going like, “Shut up. Shut up.” Press was easier yesterday when we hadn’t seen the movie. So when we had questions, we’re like, “I don’t know.” You could say it. And also, we just we appreciate it. We just like to keep things for the audience. Allow them to experience the characters because this is such a strong character film. It’s like great to just allow them to experience it. So yes, of course. Of course. and Tom and also um Christopher you have said that one of your main goals on this was to create the fully truly global mission impossible. So, where have you all traveled to to make this particular uh Africa um twice to Africa? Draensburg, Hoodbury. Yes, Drachensburg and Hoodspray in uh in South Africa. Um Swalbard in the Arctic Circle. Uh we were uh shooting on the ice cap. We were interrupted several times a day by polar bears. Polar like real Oh, yes. and polar we were all living on a boat morowed to the ice cap. Polar bears tried to a polar bear tried to get on our boat. Uh we were we were at the very edge of the world. Um Belgium we shot in we we shot a little bit in Belgium. Um what else am I where else am I missing this one? England and and in Yes. And in the UK where we we love shooting. Yeah. If when you look at dead reckoning and this film both it was Abu Dhabi and Norway and Rome and Italy. Rome and Venice. Rome and Venice. Yeah. Yeah. So in the combination, you know, you it’s been quite a journey. Like you mentioned the Arctic. I think thinking you all lived together in an icebreaker ship and played cards together. We did. We did. How was that experience? It was uh the the cards and like breaking bread with each other in in the evening and just having that um being able to experience such a beautiful landscape in extreme weather conditions. It was -40 with the wind chill at some points and um we un underwent lots of very important training to make sure we understood how to be safe out there on the ice. You know, we are standing and working on a frozen sea. um and that I was working with um with dogs and so the the one one thing that was so wonderful about working with animals is there is such a purity of you know if they trust you or not. They know if you know if they like you or not. They’re not polite and you have to earn that respect and that trust from them. And so working with their handlers and um what that was what it asked of us to be in and the temperature in the Arctic also for us to work in that it was very unique in terms of handling the camera. What what was the temperature Mchugh? Uh as Hy said it was sometimes minus 40. Um yes and your all’s faces with the wind with the windchill. And of course we brought our own wind so I feel like looking for the polar bears. We were trying to avoid the polar bears. We went on a snowmobile. You remember Paul? Yes. I was on the back of Snowball and he was like riding like so fast and I was like in the back I was like, “Oh my god, he goes so fast, but I’m not going to complain because he’s Tom, you know, I don’t want to be like, you know, you know what I mean?” And uh and he was like, “We have to find polar bears.” I like, “Yeah, I mean, do you think it’s a great idea?” I don’t know. Yeah. Yeah. Let’s look for polar bears. But we I remember the first time we’re coming onto the set and we we had so many layers on to keep us warm. And we had the flasks of hot tea and hot chocolate and anything we could to just keep making sure that we were we could do this safely and comfortably. And I remember coming on set and seeing Mchu for the first time thinking it was Miku because you just see a bit of kind of you see goggles and the only way I could recognize him is his I saw his beard and his mustache and it was fully icicled. So it was just like a a just just this ice kind of mask that he was wearing and I was like that’s Mchugh I can see him and it was just extraordinary to be there. I felt like I was in a moonstone the light and how it would bounce off the snow. Um and and knowing how that this is a a place that most people don’t get the chance to go to. It wasn’t lost on me what a privileged experience it was to be in that environment. Um a place that many people had said it was impossible to shoot. So, of course, that was an inevitable location for us. Yeah. And the cameras like that. Really? It’s impossible. We’re going there. We’re going got to do that. Yeah. And you had to actually have the cameras working in that temperature. How was that preparation? Uh, that was very challenging. And also the camera operators because they they couldn’t wear the same level of gear in order to operate the camera. So the everything you had to take into account the the the level of exposure, how long you could be exposed and we learned very quickly not to fight the environment. You we we went with a plan like with everything else and physics became the reality. And so we adjusted everything very quickly and learned how to work with the environment instead of fight it. And what we learned very quickly is when you when you do that, the Arctic gives back. And and what we shot there was actually quite beautiful. Really one of a kind. It’s it’s one of the one of the most beautiful places we’ve shot. And we get to see that in the movie, right? Yes. Oh, it’s in the film. Every bit of it. It’s in the film for sure. And now uh from now from here on now, we’d like to take questions from the journalists here. And we have uh received questions in advance from the media. So uh we will announce the name of the media and the journalist. And uh when the microphone arrives, please ask your questions. Uh, so this is a question from Yo, um, uh, for Tom and Chris. Um, and Phil, first of all, um, the film was just a ball of fun. Thank you very much for making it. Um and uh it truly feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feels like a culmination of all the work you’ve done. And so she would love to know what the first spark that first seed of the idea for the film was and uh because we heard that it was developed in quite a non-traditional way. Can you talk a little bit about developing the screenplay together? I mean I don’t know what developing anything is traditional. The the kind of movies that I’ve made and how I learn to tell stories is this. And it’s also it’s a dialogue between us and I you had ideas. I mean you you speak to this. It’s it goes back and forth and evolves. Yeah. It’s a um it it is the culmination of everything that that we’ve done in that every time we go out to do something we we find ourselves working as hard as we can on it and we’re always dissatisfied with the result. We always look at one another and say we could do better. every time the we finish a movie right before the credits rolled last night, he turned to me and he went, “We can do better.” I was like, “Yes.” He says, “I know we can. I know we can. I know. Yes, we can.” And uh and and there’s another very important element to it beyond the collaboration with Tom and I. Um we don’t when we when we’re coming up with the screenplay, we don’t write a role and then go looking for the actor. We find actors that we are really interested in working with and we and we create those roles with them. So everybody that you’re that you’re looking at here up on this stage uh is is here because of an extraordinary talent, an extraordinary innate ability uh that um and and mission is a very um it’s a it’s a it’s a very tough partner. mission. Uh it it it takes a lot to make one of these movies. It takes even that much more to make more than one of these movies. And so it’s a testament to the fact that everybody sitting up on the stage has been in multiple Mission Impossibles. Uh it’s because Mission loves them. And uh and what they bring to it. Everything that you’re seeing that that that the actors are doing in this movie, particularly in this movie, there is so much subtlety in the performance, so much nuance, so much humanity, and so much emotion. And a great deal of it is is not expressed through dialogue, but through behavior and through their interaction with one another. They are an enormous gift to us. They they make the process so much more rewarding and so much more emotional. And it goes back to your question. The initial spark was emotion. The very first conversation Tom and I had when we started with Dead Reckoning, which led to the final reckoning, was to make a more emotional movie, to take some to take the things we learned from Fallout emotion, an emotional storytelling, injected into an action film about spies and international intrigue. And we wanted to do that not just for Ethan but for all the characters in the story. Uh and we could not have done it without the people you see sitting on this on this stage. And I have to say his ability to tell a story, to create a story, to be able to just see those that talent in artists like he is someone and he won’t say this. The moment I met him, I knew I was like, I’m going to work with him forever. his understanding of character, his understanding of an artist’s voice and the ability to write for them. When you look at usual suspects, when you look at the films that he he he he writes and uh it’s exceptional his ability to come on and start writing for an actor and movies used to be made like that. you would have a star or an actor and films were built around them, you know, and that was done by the studios. I’ve had to do it personally for myself entire career how I choose my movies and build it around artists, you know, and he understands that and he sees it beautifully. He’s not just in his room writing a character. He’s spending time and he’ll spend time and watch, you know, those are the things that we’re looking for. We’re looking at we want everyone to shine. You know, we love movies that are anyone making a film with me. I’ I’d hear someone saying, “Well, it’s your movie.” And I I go, “Look, stop. Please don’t say that. It is our movie. This is your movie as much as it is my movie and Mchugh’s movie. It’s our movie. And your voice is important. I want to hear what you think. I want to hear what you want to create.” and he has that ability to just so easily write structure and you see the movement of this piece and and his work overall. It’s just from look at Top Gun Maverick. I mean all of these things that that it’s a beautiful beautiful talent that he has. And uh so I just I I want you to know that it’s what happens with that. It’s it’s not it’s written on the page and then you hire people and go shoot it. It’s it’s developed and it takes a perception of humanity and you have to be able to see and listen to people what they want to do and see their abilities and sometimes their abilities that they themselves don’t necessarily see and you go there’s the light. Let me let me let that light out. And then that light translates into a story and translates into an audience enjoying the overall story. And my goal is to help. My goal in life is I want people to do better from having had this experience with us. And so that’s what we do. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. We have time for one more question. Uh so this is from If you could pass the mic, welcome to Japan. Thank you so much. So um this is Mizuho and the question is for you Tom. Um when you were making the first uh Mission film, did you ever imagine that this franchise will be going on strong after three decades? If so, why? What made you think so? And if not, why not? It look it when I was started out, I really wanted my career even before this that I would be doing this this long. I I had hoped, but I also knew, you know, I have to develop my talent and understand like I wanted to understand more and more. I’m very much a student and learning and and I was interested in like what’s the communication with the audience and I remember when I made the first Top Gun everyone wanted to do a sequel to Top Gun and I was like I’m not ready to do a sequel to Top Gun and I felt I I need to develop my talent as an actor as a as a storyteller and understand more the language of cinema. And when I first was asked to, you know, I come to Paramount by a woman named Sher Lancing. She was the first female president of a studio and I met her when I did TAPS when I was 18 years old and she knew my passion for movies and she has uh been very generous with me and supportive of me and she said come to Paramount and it was a moment where I was ready to produce a movie and I looked at their library and I said I’m going to make Mission Impossible. Now, you have to understand when I first decided to do Mission Impossible, everyone was like, “What are you doing doing a TV series?” And there was questions and I was very interested in testing I’m always very interested in testing my abilities, my talents, and what kind of producer will I be? And you know, I always want to be the best that I can be. So when I did the first mission, um I did think it would be how would I do the next one? What would I do? How how would this evolve? And so they wanted another one. And I was like I felt ready at that time to try another one and produce another one. And then I was ready to do another one with with the third one. And then after doing all three, I re-evaluated just the series and kind of what was working, what the audience enjoyed, what I enjoyed doing and developing. So I I did hope that this would happen. I mean, it’s it’s something that is, you know, to be able to meet Christopher McCory and to have it evolve the way that we wanted because I always wanted to go like when I’m making a movie. Sometimes people say, “Well, you’re in it, Tom. It’s going to work.” Even when I was a kid, I was like, “No, no, no. Stop.” I never ever say that to me. Just because I’m doing it doesn’t mean that that it’s going to work. That the story is going to work. The characters, please don’t say that. Don’t anyone take that for granted. We all have to focus and work hard and make it just like it’s it’s there. So every time that’s what we want to do. And to work with Christopher McCory, someone who has that ability and has that same dedication and love of storytelling. And it’s also something where we go, you know, you you want to take everything that you’ve learned and apply it to the next. everything you’ve learned and apply it to the next. So I have a saying that is like pressure is a privilege and it’s something that we remind ourselves every day. So yes, I hoped that we would be here. Yes, I hoped that each film I want to make each one better and better and better within the mission series, but also with everything that we do. everything that I do, I want that whatever genre we’re working in, I want to take that and apply it to the next film, the next film, the next film, those experiences. And so when you look at my career overall, whether it’s aerial photography or underwater sequences or a drama or a comedy, it’s it is something that I have studied and applied and tried to make it better. Whether I started out with Risky Business and then I’m doing, you know, a drama with Color of Money, action and Top Gun or and then evolving to my first production and playing a vampire. Everything I’m doing, I go in and I study that. I study it and I study the history of that and then I try to find out how to apply it to make the best possible film. So, sorry to go on so much, but yes, I had hoped to be here in this way. It’s it’s beyond my dreams and I’m very grateful to Christopher McCory and our relationship McHugh because that passion and his ability making these kinds of films and his he he can he’s it’s a Swiss watch the detail of this and his understanding of that kind of structure that it takes that and the work that it takes to get each and every moment and how he has taken it and expanded you know to this level. It’s It’s tremendous. And I’m very grateful, Mchu. I’m very grateful to you. You’re amazing. And and to this whole cast and thank you and to you all here for allowing me to entertain you. I truly am very grateful. I’ve been doing this since I was 18 years old and you have supported me and come to see it and and thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And that will be the end of the Q&A session. So we will like to move on to the photo session. So if you could all please stand up and come to the center. So, if you could all get together and get close. Can you step uh step a bit forward? Can you get closer to this? Stand up. Can you stand on the black part, please? The black part. Just Yep. Right here. Yep. No jumping yet. You can just step. And now first, if you could look at the center camera. This is the official camera. So please, if you could look at the first camera right in the middle. Oh, can you wait? We’re gonna get the chairs out. We’ll clear out and once we have that ready, we’ll start shooting. And so now we’re ready. So if you could look at the camera in the middle first, please. Okay. Please look at the front. And now if you look can look to your right. To your right, please. This way. To your right. Let’s go like this. Thank you. Now, if you could take a look to your left. Left, please. Hey, can you look at the center, please? In the middle again. do this. Yeah, that’s better. Okay, there we go. Happy. Thank you. Thank you so much. And now if you could uh there the movie is at the back. So if you could the video cameras are at the back. If you could wave to the back as in like in the seat back seat. You wave to the cameras in the back. Thank you. So this will be the end for the photo session and video session. Thank you very much. And this will conclude. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. So, thank you so much. Please give a round of applause to Tom Cruz, Christopher Ricari, Haley Atwell, Simon Peg, Tom Clementf, and Greg Carson Davis. Thank you very much. [Applause] [Music] Thank you very much.
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