‚Mission: Impossible‘ star Hayley Atwell said in a recent interview that she sees co-star Tom Cruise like an uncle and slammed the ‚invasive‘ dating rumors.
In the three years of filming “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning,” star Hayley Atwell said she has grown close with Tom Cruise — but not in the way some fans would think.
To Atwell, whose Grace is Ethan Hunt‘s (Cruise) new sparring partner, Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie are more like “two uncles.” In an interview with the Independent published Saturday, the “Agent Carter” actor, 41, shut down the romance rumors that arose during her time on the iconic action franchise.
The seventh “Mission Impossible” installment began production during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 (remember Cruise’s expletive-ridden rant about safety?) and wrapped this year in April. Tabloid rumors about the co-stars’ romance first surfaced in December 2020, with alleged sources claiming the duo “fancied each other” and were “inseparable.
