Tom Cruise shows off even more death-defying stunts in the new Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation trailer released Monday, March 23.

Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation Trailer

Cruise reprises his action hero role as Ethan Hunt in the fifth Mission: Impossible film alongside returning co-stars Simon Pegg and Jeremy Renner. In the newly released trailer, Cruise appears back in super spy shape, starring in impressive fight sequences and performing crazy stunts. The crazy stunt that has everybody talking is one featured in the trailer that had Cruise dangling from an airplane mid-flight.

“The Most Dangerous Thing I’ve Ever Done”

Cruise, 52, insists that he performed the stunt himself – much to the chagrin of the filmmakers. “That’s me the whole time. I was standing right over the tires when we landed. It’s nerve-racking for everyone else, but pretty exciting for me,” Cruise told reporters.

In fact, Cruise not only performed the stunt, it was his idea. “I knew I wanted to have an airplane sequence. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. As a kid I remember flying on an airplane and thinking: ‘what would it be like out on the wing or on the side of the airplane?!’” Cruise said.

In the last Mission: Impossible installment, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Cruise sat on top of the world’s tallest building, so first-time Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie had to be a bit more creative to top that stunt. “As dangerous as the Burj Khalifa was [in M:I 4] – and it was incredibly dangerous – the Burj Khalifa was static. And here you’re moving at such high speeds. If a bird hit him at that sort of a speed, that would have been it,” McQuarrie said.