The death scene he filmed was totally different than the one moviegoers saw, reveals a former Mission: Impossible actor. The fourth entry in the long-running spy movie series will forever be remembered as the one where Tom Cruise filmed an action scene while dangling from the exterior of the soaring Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai. But Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol almost featured another scene that would have been memorable for a completely different kind of craziness, had it not been cut for being too extreme.

Josh Holloway just gave the details on this altered Ghost Protocol scene, which would have added several layers of wrong to his character’s already-shocking death, had the version they originally filmed been used in full (via The Julia Cunningham Show on SiriusXM):

“In the original script, Paula Patton comes out and finds me dying, but I’m not dead yet. And then...