Hayley Atwell is one of the most-searched stars in the world right now thanks to her role in the hit film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and lots of fans want to know more about her personal life.
14.07.2023 - 01:23 / justjared.com
Hayley Atwell‘s Peggy Carter made a glorious comeback in 2022′s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness only to be killed off within minutes of returning to the screen.
The 41-year-old actress, who first portrayed the character in 2011′s Captain America: The First Avenger, opened up about her brief return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a recent interview.
She didn’t pull any punches when it came time to reveal her thoughts on being decimated by Elizabeth Olsen‘s Scarlet Witch, either.
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While on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Hayley said that she got “so much slack” for her scenes.
“I’m like, ‘That wasn’t my choice,’” she said. “When she was like, ‘I could do this all day’ and then followed by she’s immediately cut in half by a frisbee. And the audience being like, ‘She can’t do it all day.’ Apparently you can’t. So, egg on your face.”
Hayley added that it “doesn’t really serve Peggy very well” and said it “felt like a frustrating moment.”
Conversely, she had really positive things to say about her appearance in the Marvel animated series What If…?
“I felt like I had much more to do,” she explained. “I mean, any actor will tell you, to be able to go into a booth in effectively your pajamas and do an animation is great fun because you’re focused on the voice as the instrument and your main performative tool.”
The actress also played Peggy in a spin-off series called Agent Carter. Back in 2015, she revealed a sweet way that she paid tribute to the character.
Did you know that one of the movie’s main actors had not seen it months after it premiered.
Hayley Atwell is one of the most-searched stars in the world right now thanks to her role in the hit film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and lots of fans want to know more about her personal life.
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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” now playing in theaters. The “Mission: Impossible” movies have no shortage of death-defying stunts, but the Tom Cruise-starring action franchise is known for another iconic magic trick: its mask reveals. “Dead Reckoning Part One” features two mask reveals — in the first, Cruise’s Ethan Hunt uses a mask to infiltrate a meeting between CIA director Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny) and officials from various intelligence agencies about a rogue artificial intelligence system, known as the Entity. The other is a face swap between Hayley Atwell’s Grace, a pickpocket who becomes embroiled in IMF’s hunt for the Entity, and Vanessa Kirby’s black-market arms dealer Alanna Mitsopolis, aka the White Widow.
“Mission Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One” and one of the revelations of the film, at least if you haven’t been paying attention over the years, is Haley Atwell, a huge scene stealer, who matches Tom Cruise beat for charming beat within the film. For many, she’s the real find and gem of the film, the discovery if you maybe haven’t seen much of the other work.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses the ending of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” currently playing in theaters. “Dead Reckoning,” the seventh installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, is the latest Hollywood blockbuster to be split into two movies, but Tom Cruise and writer-director Christopher McQuarrie tried their hardest to give “Part One” a non-cliffhanger conclusion. The filmmaker recently told Total Film magazine that thinking about how to conclude the first of two movies kept Cruise up at night during the filming of “Part One.” “Where we ended the movie was always where we were going to end it,” McQuarrie said of the train action sequence. “How we ended the movie was a big, big mystery for us. It kept Tom awake at night throughout production. He would come in all the time and say, ‘This can’t be a cliffhanger, it’s got to be satisfying.’ The audience has to feel a sense of completion.”
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness.In the Marvel sequel from 2022, Atwell played Captain Carter, a new version of the character Peggy.After her character was teased to have a big role in the film, she actually ended up being killed off by Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) almost straight away after her introduction.Reflecting on the frustration of the brief cameo, Atwell told Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast: “I’m like, ‘That wasn’t my choice!’ When she was like, ‘I could do this all day’ and then followed by she’s immediately cut in half by a frisbee.“And the audience being like, ‘She can’t do it all day. Apparently you can’t, so, egg on your face.’ That doesn’t really serve Peggy very well.”She added: “I felt like I had much more to do in the What If…? animation series.
Something that’s brought up in a new Happy Sad Confused podcast with “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning—Part One” star Hayley Atwell. The host of the podcast, Josh Horowitz, essentially says ‘Mission Impossible’ movies should not work.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One stars Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson have revealed the secret Morse Code meaning behind the franchise’s theme.Speaking to NME, the pair shared that they were recently made aware of the secret while appearing the Today FM show Dermot & Dave, hosted by Dermot Whelan and Dave Moore.“This is an amazing fact,” began Pegg. “Dave from Dermot & Dave, an Irish Radio show told us that when Lalo Schifrin wrote the original music, the theme, [he put in] two dashes, two dots [which translates to] ‘MI’,” the actor explained while sounding out the tune.“Stop it, it’s true!” interjected Ferguson, who was equally as excited to share the little-known fact.Lalo Schifrin, an Argentine composer, recorded the M:I theme in 1967.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Hayley Atwell is currently kicking butt in “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” but the Tom Cruise-led action tentpole is not the actor’s first go-around with a Hollywood mega-franchise. Atwell joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Peggy Carter in 2011’s “Captain America: The First Avenger.” It’s a role she would flesh out in two seasons of ABC’s “Agent Carter” series, before lending her voice to an alternate version of Peggy in Marvel’s Disney+ series “What If…?” Atwell’s Peggy Carter is a passionate fan favorite among Marvel lovers, which is why fans were so delighted when the character popped up as an alternate Captain America in 2022’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and then made furious when she was almost immediately killed off by Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen). In a new interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Atwell called the cameo “a frustrating moment.”
Angelique Jackson It’s 10 a.m. in Sydney, where Hayley Atwell is preparing to walk the red carpet as the “Mission: Impossible” crew’s newest member, joining producer and star Tom Cruise and writer-director Christopher McQuarrie’s ensemble of battle-hardened actors. “This is a pure cinematic experience. It’s unadulterated entertainment, and of a huge scale,” Atwell says to Variety about “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” which finally hit theaters on July 12 following a two-year delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Flashy events like the Australia premiere (which featured a fireworks spectacle in honor of Cruise’s 61st birthday on July 3) mark the end of a four-year odyssey that pushed Atwell’s limits physically — leaving her hanging inside a train car that’s gone from horizontal to vertical, gripping anything nailed to the floor/wall/ceiling lest she fall to her death (or at least the safety rigging below) — and saw her creating a cunning character within the “M:I” universe.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has been released.Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the first part follows Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his band of operatives as they chase down a key to deactivate a sentient AI device known as the “Entity”.Alongside returning cast members Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson and Vanessa Kirby, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One adds Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales and Pom Klementieff to the franchise.Lorne Balfe returns to compose the score for both parts of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. He previously scored the sixth installment, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, while his other credits include Marvel’s Black Widow, Amazon series The Wheel Of Time and this year’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.You can stream the full soundtrack below.The original Mission: Impossible theme was written and composed by Lalo Schifrin in 1967.
Wondering if you should choose to accept the latest “Mission: Impossible” entry? Maybe you’re sick of all the bombast at the movie theatre lately? Well, put it another way: Do you really want to disappoint Tom Cruise?
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One co-star Tom Cruise have affected her.The actress, who is engaged to music producer, director and actor Ned ‘Wolfgang’ Kelly, in new interviews dismissed claims that she and Cruise were ever an item – and that such “grubby” speculation was “invasive”.She told The Telegraph that the rumours about Cruise were just that. “It’s tabloid journalism.
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No mission is impossible for Tom Cruise – even quelling the nerves of a particular actress with whom he has been romantically linked. Hayley Atwell, who stars alongside Cruise in his new "Mission: Impossible" film, says rumors that she was involved with the A-list star made her feel uneasy. "I would be like, ‘Ooh, there’s some weird rumors, and it feels base, it feels a little dirty, it feels grubby, it’s not what I’m about,’" she told The Independent. "Why are things being assumed or projected onto me about my relationship with my work colleague and boss?" Atwell said that throughout filming, she viewed both Cruise, who in addition to starring in the film is credited as producer, and the movie's director, Chris McQuarrie as "two uncles." The British actress says it was upsetting for the news to circulate: "It’s involving people in my actual life, my personal life, who have to be on the receiving end of that.
Hayley Atwell is setting the record straight when it comes to her rumoured romance with “Mission: Impossible” co-star Tom Cruise. The 41-year-old actress, who stars in the franchise’s upcoming seventh installment, “Dead Reckoning Part One”, responded to the speculation that she and Cruise, 61, have a secret romance.
Hayley Atwell is setting the record straight when it comes to her rumored romance with co-star Tom Cruise. The 41-year-old actress, who stars in the franchise's upcoming seventh installment,, responded to the speculation that she and Cruise, 61, have a secret romance during a recent interview. Speaking with, Atwell said she views Cruise and director Chris McQuarrie (aka McQ) as «two uncles,» noting that this makes the subsequent romance rumors between her and Cruise even more uncomfortable. «I would be like, 'Ooh, there’s some weird rumors, and it feels base, it feels a little dirty, it feels grubby, it’s not what I’m about,'» she said.
Hayley Atwell is opening up about the rumors she was dating Tom Cruise.