Everybody has an ideal Tom Cruise story, however his Mission: Unimaginable – The Ultimate Reckoning co-star, Hayley Atwell, has what is kind of probably essentially the most awkward reminiscence of the time she and the Hollywood icon have been attending to know one another on the set of 2023’s Lifeless Reckoning.
In an interview with Sirius XM earlier than Mission: Unimaginable 8 landed on the 2025 film schedule, Atwell, who could or might not be in Avengers: Doomsday, recalled a narrative from the set of the 2023 motion thriller. She and her pet French bulldogs had a film evening to look at Shane and different films in an try to construct rapport together with her co-star. And to her shock, the canine instantly received near Cruise. Possibly a bit too shut, as she recalled:
They simply, I believe it is very telling a couple of character, like somebody’s character, if canine or animals are drawn to you ‘trigger they have no well mannered filter. It is uncooked. It is rapid, and so they actually beloved him, and they also sort of insist on sitting on him throughout the movie, however anybody who has a French bulldog is aware of that they’re notably potent.
Anybody with canine, or who has spent a good period of time with some pooches, is aware of that pups can typically have the foulest, grossest, and most pungent farts within the animal kingdom. Because the film went on, Atwell started to note that her pets have been treating the largest identify in Hollywood as the non-public farting gallery.
However right here’s the factor. Whereas Atwell seen and was embarrassed by her Frenchies filling the air with repugnant and most definitely meaty scents, Cruise didn’t know something about it till she instructed him in fairly probably essentially the most embarrassing approach:
Tom, utterly oblivious, so well mannered, would by no means touch upon something, and so in direction of the tip of the movie, I simply turned to him and I could not say farting, I could not say it, so I simply went [in a cowboy accent], ‘Sorry for all of the tooting,’ and he was like oblivious, but in addition taking a look at me like, ‘What is the accent about?’ and I used to be like, it was so bizarre what got here out of my mouth. It was extra awkward than the canine farting.
First off, the second-hand embarrassment I’m getting from this story is sufficient to make me need to crawl right into a gap, and I’m not even the one who skilled this awkward encounter. Secondly, what’s that accent? When you haven’t already, return and watch the clip linked above. Possibly it was as a result of they have been watching one of many best Western films ever made, or possibly it was only a random fluke.
Although the entire “farting on essentially the most well-known actor on this planet” scenario could not make Atwell’s canine the greatest pets in Hollywood historical past, they no less than gave us a hilarious (and hilariously uncomfortable) story for the ages. A minimum of she didn’t steal his socks this time.
All of it appeared to have labored out, as Atwell wouldn’t solely go on to complete Mission: Unimaginable – Lifeless Reckoning, she would even have a significant half in The Ultimate Reckoning, which continues to be taking part in in theaters nationwide.