Rebecca Ferguson has spoken about her time working with Tom Cruise on the set of Mission: Impossible as she labels him a ‘man-child’.
They worked together on three movies
Rebecca Ferguson and Tom Cruise starred together in three Mission: Impossible movies, so they’ve certainly spent a lot of hours working alongside each other.
Ferguson has since revealed that working with the action icon wasn’t always a smooth process.
It was unpredictable for her
Ferguson, 41, joined the action franchise back in 2015 for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation as the character Ilsa Faust. She then went on to appear in the next two consecutive movies of the franchise.
Since her departure, she has spoken about how working on blockbuster sets can be quite unpredictable.
Scenes could get cut on short notice
The Swedish actress told The Times, “You don’t have scripts and have no idea where it’s going to go.”
“You train for a stunt scene for months and all of a sudden they cut it,” she added, before explaining that such unpredictability left the cast and crew struggling to keep up.
She said Cruise’s energy also made it fast-paced
Ferguson shared that the difficulty of working on such blockbuster movies was made even more unpredictable by Cruise’s relentless energy.
“[Cruise is] a man-child in a good way,” she said. “I often joke that there’s someone with a tranquillizer gun and a net looking for him.”
Ferguson recalled one shoot in particular
Remembering one shoot in particular, Ferguson said, “It’s frustrating because you’re ready to shoot and the sun’s going down.”
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“Tom goes, ‘what are we waiting for?’ and I go, ‘you!’, and he laughs and goes, ‘f**k, I’m sorry’,” she added.
But his energy on set is magnetic
Despite the chaotic conditions of working with Cruise, Ferguson reiterated that his enthusiasm on set kept spirits high between cast and crew.
Ferguson’s role as Ilsa Faust came to a dramatic close on her third movie in the franchise, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.
She was on board with this
Ferguson explained that she was actually on board with Faust’s ending, saying, “There was nothing more to do with Ilsa.”
“It felt like the right moment to move on,” she added.
