In this behind-the-scenes feature from Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the cast and crew reveal how they mastered underwater communication for one of the film’s most technically complex scenes. With no room for error and dialogue taking place beneath the surface, Tom Cruise and the team had to rely on cutting-edge equipment, intense training, and perfectly timed choreography to make every underwater moment clear and seamless. Discover how the impossible became reality—underwater.
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00:00Everything we're doing, it's underwater.
00:05We all know it's a dangerous place.
00:07We've developed hand signals underwater,
00:09talking, understanding.
00:11Depth, hold, frame, do it again.
00:14All of these things, there's a lot of stuff happening.
00:17Connect to one.
00:20Cut.
00:21Roll it.
00:24We have different signals for performance.
00:27Close up, longer, if I'm resting.
00:32Once we got to hand signals, it made things a lot more efficient.
00:36But shooting underwater, there's always a sense of danger.