EW: "How Henry Cavill pushed himself to match Tom Cruise's 'tirelessness' in Mission: Impossible

EW: "How Henry Cavill pushed himself to match Tom Cruise's 'tirelessness' in Mission: Impossible — Fallout"

- July 28, 2018

How Henry Cavill pushed himself to match Tom Cruise's 'tirelessness' in Mission: Impossible — Fallout

SHIRLEY LI

July 27, 2018 at 11:30 AM EDT

Henry Cavill nearly got to work with Tom Cruise before joining Mission: Impossible — Fallout. The two were in talks to costar in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., but Cruise dropped out to focus on producing and filming Fallout‘s predecessor, Rogue Nation.

So, when Cavill got the call to join Fallout as CIA agent August Walker — a man who ends up butting heads with Cruise’s Ethan Hunt, thanks to their “different ideals about how to achieve things” — he couldn’t be more pleased to follow through after their “near-miss” years ago. “I was very excited to finally get the chance to work with Tom,” he says. “Tom remembered very precise details of our previous conversation, which I did not remember. He’s excellent at that.”

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