Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Interview: Hayley Atwell on Filming the Incredible Car Chase
135When it was time to return to the franchise with Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie knew just the leading lady to star opposite Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt. In an interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, Hayley Atwell reveals that her character, Grace, was actually a collaboration that was a long time coming with the filmmaker and that the experience throughout production helped shape her action-packed entry into the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) legacy.
Dead Reckoning pits Ethan Hunt against an entirely new beast threatening humanity as well as his own past. This penultimate entry reintroduces familiar characters, like Henry Czerny’s Eugene Kittridge, as well as new faces like Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, and Atwell’s Grace. During their one-on-one, Atwell discusses the intense training and collaborative process it took to find her character and how the script would change to better serve the story as they developed the role.
Atwell also discusses Cruise as a scene partner, drawing out Hunt’s vulnerabilities and whether she realized what kind of commitment she was joining when she first said yes to the IMF. To find out more about how her involvement with the Mission: Impossible franchise changed Atwell’s life, you can watch or read the full interview in the video or transcript below.
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