‘Mission: Impossible’ Co-Star Reveals How Tom Cruise “Got To Fulfil Childhood Dream On Set”

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Tom Cruise is celebrated for doing all his own stunts on the sets of his action movies. Now Mission: Impossible actress Hayley Atwell has shared that her co-star and producer was also fulfilling a lifelong dream.

Atwell told The Guardian newspaper that improvisation by the cast was encouraged on the Mission: Impossible set – she came up with the idea of her character Grace being a pickpocket, which was incorporated into the script.

Audiences of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One saw Cruise plunge over a cliff on his bike and Atwell explained: “There’ll be Tom going: ‘From five years old I’ve always wanted to jump from a cliff on a motorbike’, and realising his dream.

But with the rest, they’re kind of making it up as they go.” Atwell has been with the Mission: Impossible team for five years, and says actors like Cruise “aren’t made like him anymore.” She explained: “When I started, I was very aware of the rarefied air around him and how there is no one like him.