Hayley Atwell had to give Tom Cruise an apology thanks to her dogs.
The 43-year-old actress revealed why she had to apologize to her Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning co-star while making an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night (May 22).
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“At the very beginning, I did a sort of like training, which was physical, but it also meant that you go around to Tom‘s house, as you do casually, to watch movies together and to kind of build up this kind of rapport, this understanding of film language, seeing if there’s any references in the movies that you can use in the films that we’re making together,” she dished.
“And so everyone’s in there, like eating popcorn,” she continued. “But the first time, he said, ‘Oh, I hear you have dogs. You should bring them over.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, well, that’s quite a good test of character,’ because if a dog likes you, then you’re a pretty solid guy, I think, right? They don’t lie.”
“I brought them over, and they loved him and they kind of insisted on sitting on him for the duration of the movie,” Hayley went on. “Now, anyone that has had or knows French Bulldogs, you know that they are very potent farters. They stink. And so we were watching it, and they were sitting on him, and they were farting on him the whole way through the movie.”
“And I’m just, I’m sat there and I’m like, ‘Oh my god, oh my god.’ And I’m looking around. There’s some other people who are gagging, and like… And he’s so discreet and he’s like enjoying the movie and eating popcorn and, And at one point, I just thought, ‘I’ve got to say something, I’m so embarrassed.”
“And, so, there was a lull in the film, and then and I just turned to him at one point and I went, ‘Sorry for all the tootin’.’ Then I went, ‘What am I even saying? Sorry for all the tootin’?”
Last week, Hayley joined her co-stars at the New York City premiere of Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which is out in theaters now – Watch the trailer!
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