Rebecca Ferguson has joined the lengthy queue of co-stars and creators lining as much as doff their caps to Tom Cruise’s extraordinary work ethic.
Ferguson has turn into a fixture of the Mission: Impossible franchise since 2015, starring as daredevil undercover agent Isla Faust in Rogue Nation, Fallout and Dead Reckoning Part One, with the follow-up due for launch in 2025.
The Swedish-English actress informed Radio Times journal of the infectious nature of Cruise’s enthusiasm on the remainder of his solid and crew. She defined:
“He’s a happy, excited, professional movie star. He’s kind, wonderful and driven, and gave me the most incredible opportunities.”
She went on:
“He expects the best of everyone. That’s probably the one thing I’ve really taken with me. If you can’t deliver, that’s fine, you always look for other solutions. But he’s the first one on set and the last one out. If you ask that everyone be their best selves, you need to deliver that for yourself. And he does.”
Ferguson is on very totally different duties this Christmas, narrating a model new sequence, Wild Scandinavia, a three-parter from the BBC’s Natural History Unit filmed over two and a half years, taking a look at flora, fauna and wildlife from Sweden’s forests and Norway’s frozen landscapes to Denmark’s shores and Iceland’s volcanoes.
The actress informed the journal she’d grown up in Sweden watching David Attenborough’s landmark nature documentaries over and over. She stated that, when the provide to voice this sequence got here, “I nearly fell off the chair with excitement.”