Mission Impossible Stars Gush Over Working With Tom Cruise
There's nary 1 successful Hollywood—or the satellite for that matter—like Tom Cruise. Just inquire immoderate of his Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One costars.
In fact, Simon Pegg, who has known Cruise since archetypal moving unneurotic successful 2006's Mission: Impossible III, revealed that down his movie prima status, the 60-year-old is the astir caring co-worker he's ever had.
"Of each the mist of worldly that's astir him, successful the halfway of that mist is simply a generous, saccharine feline who looks aft everybody," Pegg exclusive told E! News' Chief Correspondent Keltie Knight connected the June 21 occurrence (airing contiguous astatine 11 p.m. connected E!). "He leads from the apical down. And he's benignant of inspiring to beryllium around. There's nary 1 other similar him, he's the past movie prima of the aged kind."
Pegg even revealed Cruise has been conscionable arsenic lukewarm and affable since the moment they were archetypal introduced astir 2 decades ago.
"When I archetypal met him, it was my archetypal clip to Hollywood," helium noted. "He came to acceptable the archetypal time we met, helium instantly made maine consciousness precise welcome, precise astatine home, was incredibly generous."
As Pegg stressed, the Top Gun: Maverick star couldn't beryllium grounded—despite his prima power.
"Over the 17 years that we've been friends, I consciousness fortunate to get to spot a portion of him that everyone other wants to see, which is conscionable the guy," Pegg continued. "And helium is conscionable a guy. He's an bonzer guy. He's a feline who feels the work to the assemblage to hazard his beingness for them to benignant of entertain them."
While costar Hayley Atwell is caller to the Mission: Impossible franchise, the actress admitted she already knew how good of an acting spouse the Risky Business prima is.
"I had work with Tom before, I knew that helium was precise present," Atwell told E!, "he was precise nonrecreational and helium goes retired of the mode to marque definite anyone astir him successful moving capableness makes them consciousness precise safe."
For Vanessa Kirby, she calls moving with Cruise "equal parts inspired and terrified."
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"I deliberation that's the authorities everybody's successful due to the fact that it's similar jumping disconnected of a cliff with a motorcycle," she shared, referencing Cruise's ain Mission: Impossible stunt. "I deliberation it requires a existent level of committedness and passionateness and turning up and care. It's conscionable a beauteous mode of working."
Pom Klementieff agreed. "There's besides truthful overmuch trust," the Guardians of the Galaxy prima chimed in. "We person truthful overmuch spot successful him and [director] Christopher McQuarrie. They conscionable acceptable the barroom truthful precocious that we besides request to measurement up our crippled adjacent much truthful it's makes everyone amended too."
Watch the video supra for more Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One scoop, including the cast's absorption to Cruise's death-defying motorcycle stunt successful the caller film.
Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One is successful theaters July 12.
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