Hayley Atwell reflects on 5 years of "Mission: Impossible"

Hayley Atwell connected "Mission: Impossible"

Hayley Atwell connected however she braved the Arctic and a polar carnivore for caller "Mission: Impossible" 07:10

Hayley Atwell says moving successful 40 degrees beneath zero temperatures successful the Arctic was conscionable portion of the occupation for "Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning," but thing prepared her for the infinitesimal a polar carnivore wandered onto the set.

"We were truthful acold northbound that the Northern Lights were beneath us," Atwell said. 

The acceptable being interrupted by the beingness of a polar carnivore remains 1 of her strongest memories from 5 years moving connected the franchise.

The British actress, who plays Grace successful the latest installment hitting theaters Friday, underwent extended grooming to enactment with sled dogs connected the frozen sea. The utmost conditions were real, nary greenish surface effects.

"We had to bid to cognize what it was like, however to survive, however to enactment retired there," she said.

Atwell's quality represents a departure from emblematic enactment movie roles for women. Rather than serving arsenic a romanticist interest, Grace develops what Atwell calls a "nuanced intimacy" with Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt.

"The pistillate is not conscionable the entity of tendency oregon not led with a romanticist agenda," Atwell said, "There's intelligence stimulation betwixt them, communal origin that brings them together, thing that feels sibling-like, maternal."

Working alongside Cruise for 5 years has fixed Atwell penetration into the actor's off-camera persona. The 2 person go close, helium adjacent took her grandma connected a chopper thrust astatine sunset connected Christmas Eve.

"For a antheral who is an aerobatic pilot, seeing him beryllium truthful gentle and benignant and diligent with her and explaining however everything worked, that to maine was similar conscionable a people of a truly decent guy," she said.

To hole for her relation arsenic a thief, Atwell practiced sleight-of-hand techniques, adjacent successfully stealing items from Cruise during filming, including brackish and capsicum shakers, a watch, a necklace and gym socks.

"I've ne'er been a thief before. So I needed to practice," she said.

Atwell describes "The Final Reckoning" arsenic "the culmination of each the movies that's gone before" that "ties up crippled points and characters that radical person been watching for the past 30 years." The movie received a five-minute lasting ovation astatine its debut successful France.

Despite the film's rubric suggesting the end, Atwell remained coy astir whether this genuinely ends the franchise.

"I'm not the caput of the studio. I'm conscionable an histrion for hire. I person nary idea," she said erstwhile pressed astir imaginable sequels.

"Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning" is distributed by Paramount Pictures and opens successful theaters nationwide Friday.

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