VIENNA (AP) — Imagine this. You’re strapped to the outside of a flying jetliner, thousands of feet above ground and rapidly rising. What would be going through your head?

“You’re thinking about the lighting, the angle, how’s the shot,” says Tom Cruise of his latest hair-raising stunt in “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation.”

“Plus, you want to live through it.”

In Vienna on Thursday for the world premiere of their film, Cruise and other leads in the cast talked to The Associated Press about its making — and how they already miss the months of hard work that went into the fifth in the Mission: Impossible series.

With part of the film playing in the Austrian capital, the choice of Vienna made sense. One of the most suspenseful episodes takes the audience to the city’s ornate opera house where Cruise, as Ethan Hunt, plays a deadly game of hide-and-go seek members of The Syndicate, a dark force bent on destroying the Earth — and while they’re at it, killing Austria’s chancellor.

One of the shots fired at the Austrian politician before his car is blown up is by Ilsa Faust. Played by Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson, she appears by turns to be a baddie then Hunt’s ally. It all turns out well in the end, both in the film and for Ferguson who says she has grown through the experience.

“It’s been such a ride, when it comes to challenging yourself, physically working alongside Tom Cruise,” she said. Ferguson, who trained intensely for weeks for the physicality she displayed in the film’s fighting scenes, called the experience “exhausting, exhilarating and … intoxicating,” adding: “Now I’m sort of decommissioning, realizing what actually has happened.”

Ditto for the regulars. Simon Pegg as Hunt sidekick Benji Dunn, has seen his share of Mission: Impossible sequels — and wants more.

“It’s something I relish,” he said. “When I’m on Mission Impossible, I don’t want to be doing anything else.”