Tom Cruise wasn’t the one spectacular stuntman on the set of Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.
Throughout a current look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, Hayley Atwell revealed that she was nearly 9 months pregnant whereas taking pictures one of many movie’s battle scenes.
“Throughout this battle sequence, we got here again to it just a few occasions so as to add just a few parts to it, and on this clip, I’m really eight and a half months pregnant,” Atwell informed Fallon earlier than the clip was proven on the present. “I’m critical, sure!”
The Agent Carter star stated that “everybody was so supportive” and so they supplied to have a stunt double step in for her to complete out the scene. Nonetheless, Atwell was desperate to carry out the stunt on her personal.
“I’ve to say, I used to be taken such excellent care of, everybody was so supportive,” she stated. “They usually had been like, ‘Oh, you possibly can sit down and we’ll have a stunt double do it,’ and I used to be like, ‘No, I’ve labored too laborious, let me do it!’ So I did it, and right here it’s.”
Atwell and The Remaining Reckoning solid additionally notably realized learn how to dogsled once they traveled to Norway for filming. Of the expertise, she informed The Hollywood Reporter canine sledding within the Arctic was “Invigorating, empowering, mind-blowing, surreal,” and so they even needed to pause filming when a polar bear “walked throughout the set.”
“We needed to cease taking pictures as a result of a polar bear walked throughout the set, and that’s one thing I’d by no means thought I might hear myself say,” she stated. “We lived on an icebreaker ship. We performed playing cards at night time, and we ate collectively. It was actually necessary that we cultivated a way of rapport and teamwork in order that we had been in a position to belief one another on the ice.”