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While filming Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), Tom Cruise insisted on using a real knife for the iconic scene where the blade stops a quarter inch from his eye, even asking Dougray Scott to use full force for authentic reactions — a decision that added $500,000 in insurance costs.

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