Mission Impossible: Did you notice Henry Cavill’s weird gesture in this scene from Fallout? – Cinema News

The actor explained the movement he made with his arms during a fight against John Lark in Mission: Impossible 6.

In Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth installment of the famous action franchise led by Tom Cruise, Ethan Hunt must join Walkerplayed by Henry Cavill, who is distinguished by his suspicious behavior and incredible combat skills from the beginning of the film.

At a certain point in the film – at 32 minutes and 10 seconds, to be more exact -, after a memorable parachute jump over Paris, he and Ethan start a violent fight to neutralize their target in the bathrooms of the Grand Palais.

A strange arm movement

The sequence is brutal, and the protagonists face each other with fists, suitcases and even the sink. When thrown to the ground by John Lark (Liang Yang) and his partner are in a bad position, Walker gets up with difficulty and goes back on guard.

We then see him perform some rather strange little arm movements, as if he were punching the air before returning to combat. The gesture was made by Cavill for a very specific reason, as he said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast:

“After a while, everywhere starts to hurt a little because you do a lot of repetitive movements,” he explained. “My biceps tendons were sore, so I had to warm them up before throwing the punch. I was literally doing that to warm up [meus braços].”

Thinking he probably looked stupid on camera, the actor apologized to director Christopher McQuarrie, but the filmmaker asked him to keep the gesture in the next scene:

I did another take without that movement, and he [o diretor] said, ‘Why didn’t you do that? It went really well.’ I said to him, ‘Was it good?’, and he said, ‘Yes! You really need to do this.’ And that’s what we did

*Translation from a partner site of QuandoCinema

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