As Hayley Atwell bids farewell to her Mission: Impossible character Grace, she’s taken on the most important role of her life.
The Golden Globe nominee recently revealed that she was nearly nine months pregnant with her first child during reshoots for one fight scene in Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, which is now playing in theaters.
“During this fight sequence, we came back to it a few times to add a few elements to it,” she explained this week on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “And in this clip, I’m actually eight and a half months pregnant.”
Atwell added, “I’m serious. Yes. And I have to say, I was taken such good care of. Everyone was so supportive and they were like, ‘Oh, you can sit down, and we’ll have a stunt double do it.’ And I was like, ‘No! I’ve worked too hard. Let me do it.’ So I did it, and here it is.”
In Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning (2023), Atwell made her debut as Grace, a thief with questionable loyalties who becomes Ethan Hunt’s (Tom Cruise) new ally.
Pom Klementieff, Greg Tarzan Davis, Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg and Hayley Atwell in ‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ (2025) (Paramount Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection)
Now an IMF agent, Grace reunites with Ethan in The Final Reckoning to defeat a rogue artificial intelligence that has the ability to destroy mankind. In addition to Cruise and Atwell, the sequel also stars Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Angela Bassett, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Katy O’Brian and more.
