Tom Cruise did his first underwater scene for “Legend” (1985), followed by executing far more demanding scenes in “Edge of Tomorrow” (2014) and most famously “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” (2015 ...

Scenes set underwater have a particularly breathtaking quality, a mixture of beauty, fear and unknowability. Maybe it’s the way water obscures and bends color, or how the human body moves through ...

Underwater scenes are incredibly difficult to shoot, as the conditions mean the cast and crew have to rethink nearly every aspect of making a movie. While shooting in the open ocean provides the most ...