Mission: Impossible 7 - Hayley Atwell opens up about her character from Tom Cruise’s upcoming action thriller

Tom Cruise returns as IMF agent Ethan Hunt for a seventh time in Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning, and Hayley Atewell is a part of the movie’s cast. Atwell, who has caught fans’ eyes with her roles in the MCU movies, has now opened up about her role in the seventh Mission: Impossible movie. 

At an audience QandA at Awesome Con as reported by ScreenRant, the actor painted a picture of her character from the action thriller, who we know will be named Grace. 

“She's a joy to play. She's mischievious, and she's playful, and she holds her own with [Ethan] and there's an element of, a kind of comic element to it, which is great, which we haven't seen as much of in Mission before this, it has a different tone to it.” Atwell said. 

The actor also talked about the stunts that she had to perform for the movie, which included drifting a race car, backflipping over a bridge, jumping backwards off a moving train and running uphill in high heels while handcuffed. 

The makers released the movie’s first trailer last month, which showed Atwell and Cruise together in a few scenes, as they performed some high speed action in a car. The movie series is known for Cruise’s dedication to pulling off death-defying stunts and it looks like Atwell will also be a part of some of it in Dead Reckoning. 

Apart from Cruise and Atwell, the movie also stars Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Frederick Schmidt, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Esai Morales, Rob Delaney, Charles Parnell, Indira Varma, Mark Gatiss and Cary Elwes. 

The first part of the movie is scheduled to hit theatres in 2023 while the second part will arrive in 2024.