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Tom Cruise hanging onto the side of a plane by his fingertips. A little worrying, right?
What about being responsible for one of the world's best-known film stars, 5,000 feet in the air?
Earlier this week Cruise spoke about filming the scene for the new Mission Impossible.
Actors are increasingly doing their own death-defying stunts, and Newsbeat's been talking to some of the people who help them.
Wade Eastwood, a stuntman and stunt coordinator, is responsible for keeping Tom safe.
He told Newsbeat: "When you have an actor that really wants to do it and has the ability to do it then you've got to go for it.
"The production value is in the actor always doing as much as possible," he says, "that's what the audience wants to see rather than a green screen environment or visual effects version of it. The younger audience knows the difference now. "
"You make it as safe as you can but at the end of the day you can only do so much and he has to do the rest - that's the danger and that's why audiences are going to watch."
The award-winning 44-year-old has stunt-doubled Brad Pitt, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ewan McGregor to name a few.
For the plane stunt Wade was inside the cabin and says he was excited rather than nervous: "We'd taken care of all the things we can, safety wise".
He says it's much the same as doing his own stunts: "When I was performing the adrenaline kicks in and calms you down and you go into a surreal state where you don't remember doing the stunt.
"For me coordinating and watching someone else doing a stunt is the same thing. I've done all the preparation I can - and I go into a calm state."
Surely it's extra stressful when dealing with one of the world's biggest stars?
"Without a doubt you feel massive responsibility. With a big star there is that added pressure from a publicity point of view."
But he insists "the money doesn't come into it" and "whether it is a multimillion star or a junior stuntman, it doesn't matter to me i'ts still a life."
So no nerves for Wade. What about Tom?
None apparently: "He's very technical, he understands everything that's explained to him as a pilot - he understands aircraft."
"Tom is one for always pushing himself and pushing the action. He wants to achieve the impossible, and use the resources he has in a major feature film to make it happen.
The actor's known for doing his own stunts including throwing himself off the world's tallest building - Burj Khalifa in Dubai - in a previous Mission Impossible film.
"His ability is as good as any stuntman I have worked with in my career."
Wade says he's become good friends with Cruise.
"We share a lot of the same interests and have a lot of fun with adrenaline-filled sports after work hours," he explained.
He says that although doing the stunts is more of "a high" than coordinating them, he wasn't jealous not to be on the side of that plane.
"Well, maybe the competitive side of me was a little bit envious but then again I didn't want to be strapped to the outside of a plane in November in England."
The stunt was filmed at RAF Wittering air base and the team had to show Airbus that everything was safe before they were allowed to use the plane.
They did a test run with a dummy attached to the plane and they took precautions to prevent birds hitting it: "We put things on the plane to give Tom some kind of prevention, we did a little blast on the runway to scare the birds, had bird spotters ground and air and we had drills that Tom would do if something happened."
Earlier this week Cruise said that on one of several takes "I got hit by just a little particle" and "I literally thought it broke my ribs".
He was attached to the plane by a safety harness and "tried various things like contact lenses" instead of goggles because "he wanted to feel the effects of the wind on his eyes".
Gordon Seed has been a stuntman in the most recent Batman films, Tomb Raider and the recent Dr Who series.
Like, Wade, he also works alongside lead actors.
"Now they want the actors to do everything - they don't want stunt doubles now.
"There's a balance between seeing the artist's face and getting a nice stunt."
He's no stranger to a dangerous stunt himself - jumping 90 feet head first from a balcony for Spooks with no harness or wire (there was an airbag).
"The build up to it is quite nerve-wracking - the adrenaline's pumping, your heart's pounding. But when you actually do the stunt you are so focused on it you don't really see it, you just go through the motions you've already planted in your mind."
But he says watching someone else is a different experience.
"It's a very different sort of nerves really - it is a nervous moment - you kind of have to let your baby go at some point," he said.
"The last thing I want to do is break a lead artist. You have to be so careful. We put crash mats where we can. If it's seen to be too dangerous for them then we always double for them."
He says sometimes he has to be particularly careful. He worked with David Tennant on Dr Who, and says David was such a valuable commodity that he doubled for him most of the time.
"There's always a slim chance something could fail - but its all so rigorously tested beforehand.
"It's partly my responsibility because I've said they're fine to do it, but it would fall on the production as well because they've allowed it to happen, and there would be severe implications for the first assistant director as well.
"People get bumps and bruises all the time, but if anyone got hit in the face straight on with a baseball bat then there's been a serious mistake and something's gone wrong."
He says sometimes the most pressured situations are to do with timing and money rather than physical safety: "On a big production when they are spending thousands and thousands on a shot and you've got to get your timing just right and falling over in the right place. That can be more scary sometimes than being on fire and falling off a building.
"If your timing's out and you mess the shot up they've got to reset all the special effects and everything.
"That could be half a day and so if you mess that up you've cost them half a days shooting on your own."