"With Mr. Cruise, you can never count him down or out," Angela Bassett tells PEOPLE of costar Tom CruiseMission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is in theaters nowThe eighth film in the Tom Cruise action franchise,

Making something as big and epic as Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning can be an impossible task, per Simon Pegg, but at least the cast and crew had Tom Cruise on their side. ClutchPoints spoke to the cast of The Final Reckoning during the movie's press junket, who agreed with Pegg's point.

With each of the Mission: Impossible movies, it feels like Tom Cruise's commitment to pulling off unimaginable stunts is plastered on the screen. Hayley Atwell shared that idea with us, too, during an interview with CinemaBlend’s Jeff McCobb. When asked about the submarine scene specifically, she said: