Tom Cruise<\/a> hit it off because they are “similar-minded geeks”.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Hannah Waddingham got on well with Tom Cruise<\/p>\n
The 50-year-old actress appears in Mission: Impossible \u2014 The Final Reckoning, the eighth and final film in the franchise, and she got on well with her co-star because they both behave like “ridiculous 12 year olds”.<\/p>\n
She told The Sunday Times magazine: \u201cWe\u2019re like ridiculous 12 year olds. Me, him and [the film\u2019s director] Chris McQuarrie are very similar-minded geeks. On the aircraft carrier, I was spending hours a day filming F-18s landing and taking off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hannah plays a naval admiral and she and Tom, who reprises his role as Ethan Hunt, filmed on the George HW Bush aircraft carrier off the coast of Italy, sleeping alongside 4,500 navy personnel and before they had even arrived, the Ted Lasso star realised just how much of a “lunatic” her co-star could be.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cI was in the admiral\u2019s quarters; he\u2019d cleared out to some cot bed somewhere. Tom was in the captain\u2019s quarters.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe\u2019d arrived on a Black Hawk helicopter while the carrier was moving.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nAs they came into land, Tom told Hannah to film it on his phone.<\/p>\n
\nShe added: \u201cHe went, \u2018Welcome to Mission.\u2019 I was, like, you\u2019re a lunatic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nHannah has previously been told she was “too big on camera” to be cast and though Jason Sudeikis wasn’t worried about hiring the 5ft 11in star for Ted Lasso, she admitted some of the cast, who were not programme regulars, weren’t as comfortable filming with her.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cI even had a couple of day players in Ted Lasso going, \u2018Is it all right if she doesn\u2019t wear shoes in this scene?\u2019 \u201d <\/p>\n
\nHannah went to drama school and when she was 19, one female teacher warned her she’d never work on TV because she looked “like one side of her face has had a stroke” and the cruel comments deterred her away from the small screen for a long time.<\/p>\n
\nShe admitted: \u201cShe really knocked my confidence so much that I then didn\u2019t audition for things for years on telly.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI hope she\u2019s rotting somewhere. Silly cow. People like that it\u2019s their own insecurities and I know that now.\u201d<\/p>\n
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