Flock of sheep force Tom Cruise to halt Mission: Impossible 8 filming – can ewe believe it?-Alistair McGeorge-Entertainment – Metro

Tom Cruise had to laugh at the shear madness caused on set (Picture: Splash News)

Tom Cruise is ready for anything on set but he probably didn’t expect a flock of sheep to grind Mission: Impossible 8 filming to a halt.

The cast and crew(e) would have been forgiven for being a bit sheepish as things went a bit pear-sheeped during a shoot in the Lake District for the upcoming blockbuster.

No, we’re not making any apologies for our baa-d puns.

Thankfully, Tom – who plays Ethan Hunt in the blockbuster action franchise – appeared to be in good spirits as the woolly locals wandered in, leading to a pause on location to give them a safe passage through.

Let’s be honest, maybe the four-legged friends just wanted to meet the Top Gun legend – or even land a cameo to give them a shot at becoming the next Shaun the Sheep?

It all went down when a crew member opened a gate letting the huge flock past the set, with local walkers having to back off from the gate as they came flowing through.

Tom Cruise looked in good spirits despite the interruption (Picture: SplashNews.com)

The gate was opened by a crew(e) member during filming in the Lake District (Picture: SplashNews.com)

Were they queuing up for Shaun the Sheep auditions? (Picture: SplashNews.com)

This could have been a baa-d situation (Picture: SplashNews.com)

In another awkward moment, the shoot was stopped again when two microlight aircraft passed directly over the set, which means the movie’s two helicopters needed to touch down in an adjacent field until it was safe to take flight again.

Thankfully, Tom was still able to nail his takes, living up to his reputation for throwing himself into every stunt.

Here, he was pictured in a helicopter performing a corkscrews towards the ground as he performed a tight downward spin, pulling himself up at the last minute before landing safely in front of the crew.

It wouldn’t be a Tom Cruise film shoot without the star getting in an aircraft of some kind (Picture: SplashNews.com)

The Top Gun actor is famed for doing his own stunts (Picture: SplashNews.com)

Cruise had a great view of the Lake District countryside (Picture: SplashNews.com)

In another shot, the 60-year-old actor was spotted mid-air sporting a blue parachute as he fell to the ground.

He’s currently working on the second part of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, with the first edition due in July 2023, and part two coming the following summer.

Filming is underway for the eighth Mission: Impossible movie (Picture: SplashNews.com)

The film will be the second of two parts for Dead Reckoning (Picture: SplashNews.com)

Tom looked relaxed during the intense shoot (Picture: SplashNews.com)

Meanwhile, it’s not just the sheep Tom has been making time for, as it turns out he’s also been meeting human locals, including people on their holidays who have accidentally stumbled on the film set.

Couple Adam Wheeler and Lucy Hinch were out walking their Siberian Husky, Blitz, when they met the movie star, who they described as ‘nice and polite and really humble’.

Adam told the Northern Echo: ‘He was nice and polite and really humble. Tom Cruise apologized for the noise of the helicopters and asked if we were alright.

‘He was making sure everybody who wanted to, got their photos with him. We were the last ones to get his picture and then he just paraglided off the mountain back to his camp next to Buttermere.’

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