“I would be like, ‘I’ve got proof of my battle scars!'”
Did a tiny, imaginary Tom Cruise appear on her shoulder to say, “Told you”?
“No, he would never rub it in,” she says.
Hayley Atwell.Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
The actress is receiving rave reviews for her performance.
(EW’sMaureen Lee Lenkercalled Atwell “the real jewel in the crown of this ensemble.")
But the opportunity to perform opposite Cruise on screen has been a long time coming.
Hayley Atwell and Tom Cruise in ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One’.Paramount Pictures
“She read for us forJack Reacher, and she was somebody we were interested in forRogue Nation.
The actress most recently portrayed an alternative universe Peggy in last year’sDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Definitely don’t think that set-up delivered what I would have loved to have seen for her.”
Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell in ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’.Paramount Pictures and Skydance
A hundred days?What was the actress doing during that time?
Then we went, ‘Okay, we’ve got to fill this in with some actual storytelling here.
Let’s work that out.'”
Hayley Atwell and Tom Cruise in ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’.Paramount Pictures and Skydance
It’s such a great comedic moment.
I mean, how lovely to see Ethan Hunt back-footed and undermined by a little yellow cupcake car."
Does Atwell think that the now-61-year-old Cruise will continue making these movies until he’s, say, 150?
“Oh, I don’t doubt it for a moment,” the actress says.
“He loves it.
He’s an extrovert.
He gets energy from being with people and making movies.
His whole life is committed to this.”
“I can’t, because I don’t know what happens,” she says.
“So much of7, we weren’t following a set script.
That’s their process.
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part Oneis now screening in theaters.
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