Tom Cruise’s Craziest Stunt Yet: Playing Instagram Boyfriend for His Mission: Impossible Costars

We’ve seen Tom Cruise jump from here to nowhere on a motorcycle. We’ve seen him cruise at altitude, battling the intense G-forces of a fighter jet. We’ve seen him make crashing in a plane look very real by allowing zero gravity to knock him around a little. We’ve seen him scale cliffs in Utah, the  tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa in Dubai , and the side of an Airbus as it took off. We’ve seen that guy skydive more times than we can count, though that has not stopped someone from keeping track. 

But Tom Cruise doing the trepidatious work of playing Instagram boyfriend? Intense! Shocking! Shakes you to your core! Here he is, on the Seoul red carpet of the film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One getting the shot for costars Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, and Pom Klementieff. 

Atwell posted a convenient “moment versus the shot” mash-up on her own account. He’s Tom Cruise, so he goes the extra mile, squatting down low, making it physical. Take a look:

How did he do? I’m no art critic, but I’d say, fine. A little low, a little washed out, but I don’t know. We’ve moved on past that perfect Instagram aesthetic anyway, right? Cruise himself deemed it “good,” and he knows red-carpet photos having been on, hm, several over the years.