'The new Tom Cruise' just might be a London office worker with a taste for risk

Priya Kansara comes alive under pressure.

With only minutes left before shooting has to wrap for the day on the set of "Polite Society," Kansara taps her inner action star while strapped into a wire harness, completing a back flip off the wall so the director can get that one last shot.

It's an impressive feat even before you factor in that Kansara had no prior experience with wire stunts before taking this job.

"It was really important to me that I could do as many of the stunts as possible," Kansara said during a recent video call from London. "It was all new. I was learning the ropes as I was going through it, but it was such a fun challenge."

In "Polite Society," Kansara plays Ria Khan, a British Pakistani teenager