ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:Why choose to joinMission: Impossibleof all things post-The Crown?
VANESSA KIRBY:It’s mad, I know!
Of all things afterThe Crown!
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It couldn’t be more different.
Really, it was nearly the death, thedeathof me.
Tell me more about the stunts.
Yes, I did!
It was really amazing having Tom’s guidance and watching him do all the choreography.
I didn’t feel like I was in some green-screen CGI action movie.
Whatisit like working opposite Tom?Henry saidTom makes everyone feel like they should push themselves harder.
Did you feel the same way?
It’s quite amazing to see him so disciplined andeverybodyso disciplined.
I’d heard that about him but to actually do it was really true.
Watching him taught me loads about discipline.
And I mean thatliterally;Tom doeseverything.
I didn’t really think he did until actually seeing him in person doing it all!
I mean, there’shis poor foot!
How did you prepare for your set pieces opposite him?
I hope you weren’t as injury-prone.
Basically, I went on quite a strict training regimenwe all did.
I was so slow, I wascrawlingby the end.
[Laughs] It was amazing.
It was so different, and being challenged in that way is really great.
You basically had to be able to keep up with Tom at his level.
So tell us about the White Widow.
How does she fit into this picture?
It feels very, very different from all the othersmore real, more immediate, and more dangerous.
It’s like none of the others.
How did you prepare before stepping into the franchise?
I read that you’d binged all of the films in one night?
Yeah, I watched them all in one night before meeting Tom!
Just to wrap up, anything else you want to add?
[Mission: ImpossibleFallout] is not going to be what you expect.
That’s what I said to Chris and the editor, “This was so unpredictable and unexpected.”
That’s the sense I got from it.
Mission: ImpossibleFallouthits theaters on July 27.
