MAN ON A MISSION

At a Beijing event for Mission: Impossible - Fallout, co-stars Henry Cavill and Simon Pegg reveal the death-defying lengths that Tom Cruise went to in a bid to thrill the film's audiences, Cheng Yuezhu reports.

Accompanied by the pulsating theme tune of the film and the cheering of fervent fans, the stars of Mission: Impossible - Fallout - Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Henry Cavill and director Christopher McQuarrie - strode down the stairs of the Imperial Ancestral Temple of the Forbidden City in Beijing on Aug 29.

As if blurring the boundary between the film and reality, the director and actors appeared on the red carpet in China and talked about the challenging yet stimulating filmmaking process.