You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and these are my interviews with the stars from the film Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning.

Haley Awell and Greg Tarzan Davis.

Our lives are not defined by any one action.

Our lives are the sum of our choices.

Everything you were,

everything you've done,

has come to this.

And the need for certainty is absolute,

and the odds are deemed impossible.

The mission falls to him.

Should he choose to accept?

For every life you tried to save,

you gambled millions more.

And now the fate of every living soul on earth

is your responsibility

Haley, thank you so much for joining me to talk for me today

about Mission Impossible, the final reckoning.

Pleasure, pleasure to be here.

So I want to first start off by asking, there's a scene where Tom viciously beats a couple of

goons with some weaponry, and the camera holds on your face and you react to this moment.

What were you reacting to while the camera was on you?

I was reacting to Tom McHugh's running commentary, describing what I should be looking at. So obviously, because where the camera is positioned, they couldn't do the stunt, they couldn't do the fight for real. I'm sure Tom would have and wanted you. So instead he's going, and now I'm punching the guy, and now I'm on the floor and I've got him in a jokehold or whatever it was. I can't remember exact words, but I remember just kind of having to imagine what it was doing as. And then McHugh kind of shouting out direction as well, like, oh, be slightly disgusted about that. Be completely shocked. Don't know if you can trust him ever again. Oh, he's coming towards you now. So it was a sort of, you know, and I'm kind of doing so many faces.

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