Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One welcomes a number of new faces to the fold, including Hayley Atwell. The fan-favorite actress plays the role of the elusive Grace in the film, and the trailers suggest that she’s really going to shake things up for Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt. In actuality, Atwell and Cruise seem to have gotten along well and, at one point during production, romance rumors swirled around the two. The assertions ultimately proved to be untrue and, now, Atwell is opening up about that past chatter. She even shared the advice that Cruise gave her about it while they were on the set.
The romance reports span back to 2020, during which the two friends were photographed attending Wimbledon the July of that year. Paparazzi also captured multiple snapshots of them on set. By fall 2021, it was alleged that Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell had broken up, despite the fact that neither of them had confirmed any sort of relationship up to that point. One would imagine that such chatter can weigh on a person, and that seems to have been the case for Atwell. She firmly shut down the rumors while also posing a question:
