Besides Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, who plays Grace, also does her stunts in Mission Impossible—The Final Reckoning.
But what is surprising about her stunt, which was a reshooting of a fight scene, is that it happened when she was eight months pregnant.
Appearing on The Tonight Show, the actress shared, “During this fight sequence, we came back to it a few times to add a few elements to it,” the 43-year-old said. “And in this clip, I’m actually eight and a half months pregnant.”
The Agent Carter star noted, “I’m serious. Yes. And I have to say, I was taken such good care of. Everyone was so supportive and they were like, ‘Oh, you can sit down, and we’ll have a stunt double do it.’”
“And I was like, ‘No! I’ve worked too hard. Let me do it.’ So I did it, and here it is,” Hayley noted.
In an earlier interview, Tom shared his story of doing the stunt, which was the long underwater sequence.
“A lot of times I cannot see because of the reflection of the light,” the megastar said. “So, I would go in, kind of blind, spend a lot of time on the set figuring out [the movement] as we’re figuring out the shots.”
He continued, “Then, when I’m doing it, I have a hard time. Plus the suit, when it’s wet, increases in weight by about 125 pounds.”
“So, the kind of workouts and things that I have to do just to prepare for these things, it’s years of development. And yeah, and I’m producing it, so it’s also that kind of thing,” Tom concluded.
