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scenes in “Rogue Nation,” Ferguson said that she loved the character’s sense of autonomy within a world that otherwise Rebecca Ferguson seems so interconnected. returns as mysterious “Something I said to Chris throughout spy Ilsa Faust was, ‘please keep her independent; she needs to have her own agenda ONE OF THE GREAT THRILLS OF THE throughout the entire film.’ I think that’s “Mission: Impossible” franchise is watching what makes her interesting.” Tom Cruise spar with his co-stars — allies She also appreciated the filmmakers’ and enemies alike — and 2015’s “Rogue efforts to provide Ilsa with a grand entrance Nation” was no different, thanks to each time she appeared on screen. Rebecca Ferguson’s performance as “Every time Ilsa appeared there Ilsa Faust, a fellow spy as likely to betray was either some kind of a musical Ethan Hunt as she is to help him. Writer- twist or there was a lighting change,” director Christopher McQuarrie astutely she observed. “It gave her so much brought back her character for “Fallout,” importance. And that’s incredible.” and according to Ferguson, Ilsa is just as The result of these understated but intriguing — and unpredictable — as before. provocative choices is to make Ilsa feel “She’s still mysterious,” Ferguson like Ethan’s equal, not only in terms of told moviebill. “I mean, it gets clearer her strength and capabilities but her throughout the film, but I think even in presence in the film. the end we never really know. Ethan will “The dynamic of the female characters always have his agenda, and Ilsa has her feels very equal to the male characters — agenda. Sometimes they clash — and they’ve managed that very well throughout sometimes they clash very hard.” the franchise,” she said. “I feel very proud Ilsa is the latest in a long line of tough, of the character that we’ve created, and resourceful female agents to go toe-to-toe I like when I have interviews with female with Ethan Hunt. Dating back to her earliest journalists who say, ‘I feel happy seeing that.’ “It’s so much fun,” she added. “Let’s keep this going, and then I actually might be able to come back in a third one. Who knows? ...Or maybe not.”—Todd Gilchrist

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Project COLDFEET Operation Ivy Bells Due to increased instabilities in the harsh climate, the Soviet Union Near the end of the Cold War was forced to abandon a secret Arctic base in 1962, leaving the 1989 in 1971, the CIA and the NSA location to be destroyed by ice. Before that happened, however, the joined forces for one of the most CIA was determined to find a way in to recover potentially significant Operation Acid Gambit complex secret operations in intelligence. With no other way to reach the base, two operatives American civilian Kurt Muse was arrested history, wiretapping a deep- were able to parachute down and explore the in Panama in 1989. Accused of espionage, sea communication line in location before being recovered by an aircraft he was sent to Carcel Modelo, then one the Soviet-controlled Sea of using a newly developed Fulton Skyhook. of the world’s most infamous prisons. Okhotsk. The U.S.S. Halibut, That December, an elite Delta Force a specially modified nuclear team infiltrated the prison by landing a submarine, was able to evade helicopter on the roof and breaking Muse intense Soviet Navy security out of his cell. Even though the helicopter and install a tap that continued was shot down as it departed the prison to serve as a source of military 1974 rooftop, Muse and the Delta Force team information until the fall of the survived and escaped. Soviet Union two decades later. Project AZORIAN Even though the Soviet submarine had been lost six years earlier, it wasn’t until 1974 when the CIA 1964 found a way to study the remains of the top- secret K-129. The United States enlisted the aid of Howard Hughes to construct a state-of-the-art Operation Hat deep-sea submarine, using a cover story about China began its own nuclear testing in 1964, sea floor mining. The vessel, the Glomar Explorer, and the CIA knew that it had to find some was armed with a massive mechanical claw that way to keep tabs on the situation. Enlisting recovered a good portion of the K-129, including top civilian mountain climbers from the two nuclear torpedoes. United States and India, Operation Hat established a clandestine spy station on one of the peaks of Nanda Devi, a mountaintop perched more than 25,000 feet above sea level. ILLUSTRATIONS BY AARON JAHLIL

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DID YOU KNOW? To celebrate “Mission:  Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames are the  Rebecca Ferguson was pregnant while Impossible — only actors to appear in all six films. filming this movie. She was about seven Fallout,” “The IMDb Simon Pegg has been in every movie months along when filming was Show” breaks down since “Mission: Impossible III” (2006). completed. Cruise’s most daring “Mission” stunts.  This is the first “Mission: Impossible”  Get more “Mission: Impossible — film to be released in 3D. Fallout” trivia with the IMDb app. WATCH THE FULL EPISODE AT IMDB.COM/SHOW

6 MOVIEBILL.COM |    7 More than two what has been the most exciting It’s part of the story and setting a tone decades after aspect of his growth to explore? for whatever that is. Whether it’s comedy SCAN TO his Ethan Hunt For me, as an actor and as a producer, or drama, that’s what we’re looking for. WATCH to be able to still be making these I spent well over a year training for the redefined the spy movies is something that I had hoped helicopter sequence, meticulously going genre, Tom Cruise for when I produced the first “Mission: through it and getting the best guys to reflects on his Impossible.” That was the first film I had really challenge me on my ability and my ever produced. To be able to make these skill. I’m also someone who is constantly 'Impossible' journey films all over the world, and to have it taking it up to the edge. How far can I go? and celebrates a be embraced the way it is, is something But I try not to exceed what I feel is my own lifelong love of that is a real gift and a privilege. personal ability in that area. What’s needed for the story is always the most important. cinema. You've proven time and again that By Silas Lesnick you're not afraid of serious stuntwork. Do you have a most memorable What do you absolutely need to know moviegoing experience? before you commit to attempting Boy, that’s hard to say because I can something with such risk involved? basically look at my whole life in terms of With everything, we spent a lot of time films I’ve seen. To just name one? There’s so, going through it. I’m an aerobatic pilot. so many films that have been memorable I ride motorcycles and cars and do all of to me. I love movies. I can remember since that. It’s really pushing and improving my I was a little kid, going to the theater or the skill and then testing to see what we can drive-in and what it meant to me. When do. What can we accomplish? Sometimes, the lights go down and I’m just taken on a the way we work on a piece of action is, I’ll journey, going to places that I didn’t even show [Christopher McQuarrie] stuff, and know existed or different worlds that I we’ll kind of talk about it and say, “I’d like to wished were real. Incredible adventures. push this stuff a little further. Let me work Drama. Comedy. That’s what I love. I love with it a little more.” But that’s it. I spend the cinema experience. I prefer it with a a lot of time carefully going through this. packed audience. That’s what we dream Also, making sure and saying, “How does about when we’re making these films too. this relate to story?” To me, action is only Thinking of that group experience. There’s interesting when I’m really invested in the nothing like it and nothing like seeing character and really invested in the story. it on a big screen with great sound and TOM Then the action is propelling me through exactly the way it was meant to be. That CRUISE the movie and it doesn’t feel like just a stunt. has never changed for me. I love it. C “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” we’ve learned about all of the missions, brings together cast members and to be able to push a mission to this from throughout the franchise. kind of epic scale and a big, emotional, How much does this sixth entertaining journey. If you just look chapter feel like a culmination at it visually, it’s original, but it’s still as opposed to a new mission? the “Mission: Impossible” family. Oh, it’s definitely a new mission and it’s definitely a culmination. I think that all What has it meant for you as an of the films have led to this film, in terms actor to be able to play Ethan Hunt of the story and the characters, what for more than two decades, and

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SCAN THESE PAGES FOR AGENT 14 MOVIEBILL.COM |    INTERVIEWS AND SPY GEAR approached “Fallout” SCAN with a clearer eye, EXCITING TO SEE if not necessarily BEHIND-THE- a greater sense of SCENES PHOTOS confidence, when the time came to marry TITLE the death-defying stunt work that has become a hallmark of the franchise with storytelling to give it emotional depth. GOES “This time, I refused to write the script until I knew where I was shooting,” he revealed. “I was counting on the locations to inspire the action, and it was enormously stressful because the CHRISTOPHER MCQUARRIE IS IN start date was coming at me like a train and I didn’t have the stunt. Any stunt.” THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR FOR A Thankfully, inspiration prevailed, and one epiphany led to another as the film came together. SECOND ENTRY IN THE FRANCHISE, “In New Zealand I found myself landing at a remote airfield just as another helicopter was taking off, carrying a payload HIS FOURTH COLLABORATION WITH on a longline,” McQuarrie remembered. “I immediately told everyone to get back in the heli. There was nothing else to TOM CRUISE. BY TODD GILCHRIST see — I had the sequence. In Paris, I was trying to find a compelling way into the Grand Palais, which inspired the AFTER A CONSISTENT AND SUCCESSFUL HISTORY OF HALO jump. We were scouting a rooftop between St. Paul’s standalone installments, “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” Cathedral and the Tate Modern and, well, by then, things is the first in the series to not only pick up where the were just out of hand. We were moving too fast to take previous film left off but to feature a returning director stock of all the gags we had. I saw the movie assembled — Christopher McQuarrie, who previously strapped Tom before I realized just how crazy it all was.” Cruise to the side of a military airbus in “Rogue Nation.” But Now a two-film veteran of the “Mission” series, don’t let this illusion of continuity fool you: McQuarrie insists McQuarrie acknowledged the anarchic quality of his that the sixth film in this storied franchise wasn’t designed approach to the series, but indicated it was born out of a as a grand culmination, or reckoning, for IMF agent Ethan sincere and passionate desire to outdo expectations — Hunt’s two-plus decades of globe-trotting exploits. especially his own. “‘Fallout’ is a standalone movie,” he told moviebill. “It “It’s certainly a natural part of Mission’s process,” he doesn’t matter if you’ve seen the previous Missions, though said. “Tom and I are determined to challenge ourselves that will certainly enhance the experience.” and the material. On day one, the future is wide open. McQuarrie first joined the “Mission” franchise after writing With every scene we lock, the options shrink. We’re “Valkyrie” and later directing Cruise in “Jack Reacher,” where gradually painting ourselves into a corner. There’s the duo developed an easy, fruitful rapport. always an easy way out — one that we don’t want to take “I think the reason we get along so well comes down to because it’s just not up to our standards. That pressure creative priorities — the order in which story, character, humor, leads to a catharsis, sometimes on the day we’re spectacle all matter,” he explained. “Those priorities change shooting. The trick is to not panic. from scene to scene, and Tom and “You just keep confronting the material and trust I are rarely out of sync as to what "TOM AND I ARE DETERMINED your gut,” he said simply. “And never forget that matters most. After a few films, TO CHALLENGE OURSELVES ‘Mission’ has a mind of its own — so be good to we’ve learned to trust each other’s AND THE MATERIAL. ON DAY ‘Mission’ and ‘Mission’ will be good to you.” instincts, even when one doesn’t get what the other is after.” ONE, THE FUTURE IS WIDE With one installment under OPEN. WITH EVERY SCENE WE his belt, McQuarrie said that he LOCK, THE OPTIONS SHRINK." . C

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FLYING TAKES A SKILLED HAND under the best of circumstances, but when you’re using an experimental rig to shoot a high- speed aerial chase that drops one of the world’s biggest movie stars from a helicopter high above the mountains of New Zealand? That’s when you need Marc Wolff. Tom Cruise himself trained as a pilot for nearly two years to pull that I had the talent for.” off some of the extreme stunt work If you’ve ever seen an audiences will witness in “Mission: action movie, odds are Impossible — Fallout,” but Wolff had a you’ve experienced a bit head start. Drafted into the military in of that talent. Over the 1966, he soon became the U.S. Army’s past three decades, Wolff youngest Captain at age 21. Although has lent his flying skills to he had initially planned to work in more than 150 feature films, intelligence as a sort of real-world including four “Superman” Ethan Hunt, Wolff realized that doing movies, six “Star Wars” films so would take away from flying. and half of the entire James “That was 1967 and [the army] Bond franchise. “Fallout” marks was desperate for helicopter pilots,” his third “Mission: Impossible,” Wolff explained. “They let me having initially worked with Cruise change my course and I went to on the famous helicopter sequence flight school instead… I just found in the 1996 original. something that really suited me and “The key to the series is that, particularly in Tom’s character, he just wants to do everything himself,” Wolff SCAN continued. “Everything is real. Some THIS PAGE of it is slightly enhanced with visual FOR A 360˚ EXPERIENCE 360˚ effects, but it’s notcreated by visual INSIDE THE INTENSE effects. It’s real things. Real aircraft. HELICOPTER SEQUENCE Real people jumping out of aircraft and real people flying.”—Silas Lesnick

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