Rebecca Ferguson has branded actor Tom Cruise, with whom she starred in the Mission: Impossible franchise, a ‘man-child’, but had a perfectly good explanation for it
Rebecca Ferguson has labelled Tom Cruise a “man-child” but “in a good way”. The actress, who starred alongside the Top Gun actor in the Mission: Impossible franchise, revealed that filming was often chaotic due to last-minute script changes and stunts being cut, while the leading man would frequently arrive late on set.
Speaking in a recent interview, she said: “You don’t have scripts and have no idea where it’s going to go, which is annoying and tedious in equal measure. You train for a stunt scene for months and all of a sudden they cut it .. [Cruise is] a man-child in a good way. I often joke that there’s someone with a tranquilliser gun and a net looking for him.
“It’s frustrating because you’re ready to shoot and the sun’s going down.”
She added to The Times: “Tom goes: ‘What are we waiting for?’ and I go: ‘You!’ And he laughs and goes, ‘F***, I’m sorry’.”
Ferguson portrayed Ilsa Faust in the franchise, but her character was killed off in the 2023 instalment Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. She told The Times that she agreed it was time for her to exit the series as “there was nothing more to do” with her character.
Recently, Ferguson collaborated with screenwriter Steven Knight on the Peaky Blinders spin-off film The Immortal Man. She later discovered that he had been tasked with writing the next James Bond movie.
She confessed that if she had known about his plans at the time, she would have badgered him for a role, as it’s her dream to portray a Bond villain.
Rebecca expressed: “I would have been pushing to play the baddie. We haven’t had a female Bond villain.”
The actress has previously collaborated with the new Bond movie’s director, Denis Villeneuve, on the Dune franchise and she disclosed that she’s also discussed the prospect of a female antagonist in the next 007 instalment.
She revealed to the publication: “I already said that to Denis – ‘Female Bond villain, b****!’ He was like: ‘Oh la la’.”
Rebecca further commented on the Bond franchise: “I love the Bonds, most of them, but I often found that they weren’t very good at writing for women.”
Despite this, she holds high expectations for Knight’s screenplay, stating: “He wrote [Maria Callas biopic] Maria for Angelina Jolie – he’s written loads of good female roles.”
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