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When actors screen test for a film, they’re usually put in a room with another actor and bounce dialogue with each other to test for things like chemistry, line delivery and more.
That’s not really the case with the “Mission: Impossible” franchise as British actress Hayley Atwell’s screen test for her role in the upcoming “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning” two-parter involved a two-hour screen test that was all stunt choreography to “ascertain my natural style” she tells The Telegraph.
The film’s writer-director Christopher McQuarrie says that process shapes the character so: “We’re looking for an actress who we want to work with, and we’ll fit the character to her.”
Once she was hired, she went through an additional five months of stunt training and from there came various aspects of the character:
“From the physical training we discovered that I was a quick learner through sleight-of-hand tricks and using a prop – so my character is an opportunist who can take an inanimate object and make a weapon out of it, rather than someone who is slick and skilled and formally trained.
From that, this inconsistent character emerged: someone who is spontaneous, quite unpredictable, but not calculating. Tom and McQuarrie were interested in finding a different kind of tone for this film than we’d seen before – and a character who had a relationship with Tom that felt more cat and mouse, two people who through circumstances and pressure find themselves in each other’s company but they’re exasperated by each other.
So therein will lie the chemistry between them, but also some of the comedic elements in the film”
We’ll be able to see the results for ourselves when “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” opens in cinemas on July 12th.
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