In 2015, Rebecca Ferguson’s profile got a major boost when she co-starred with Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation. She went on to reprise disavowed MI6 agent Ilsa Faust in Fallout and Dead Reckoning, with the latter movie seeing her character being killed by Esai Morales’ Gabriel Martinelli. Three years after Dead Reckoning’s release, Ferguson has shared how she really felt about leaving the Mission: Impossible franchise.
Rebecca Ferguson stopped by Happy Sad Confused as part of the press tour for her newest movie, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, which can be streamed with a Netflix subscription starting on March 20. After this continuation of the popular TV show that ended in 2022 was discussed, the conversation turned to other parts of her career, including Mission: Impossible. Here’s what she told host Josh Horowitz when he asked for her thoughts about Ilsa being killed off:
