Is Hayley Atwell ready for Cruise?
Tom Cruise is handsome, talented, charismatic, fabulously rich and, at 59, can still perform superhuman stunts for the latest installment of his “Mission: Impossible” series.
So, why wouldn’t any woman, including his “Mission: Impossible 7” co-star Hayley Atwell, be absolutely thrilled to be dating him?
Cruise and the British actor, 39, fanned monthslong dating rumors when they attended the Wimbledon women’s singles final Saturday.
“Tom and Hayley hit it off from day one,” a source told The Sun in December, which first reported on rumors that the “Top Gun” megastar and Atwell were romantically involved.
Among other things, Cruise is known to be “intense.” He demonstrated as much when he famously jumped on Oprah Winfrey’s couch in 2005 to proclaim his love for Katie Holmes before she became wife No. 3. At the time, Holmes was the latest in a line of famous actresses to catch Cruise’s eye. In fact, Cruise has only been publicly attached to women in the industry, going back to Melissa Gilbert of “Little House on the Prairie” fame, who was 16 or 17 at the time they dated in the early 1980s.
He later married and divorced Mimi Rogers and married and divorced Nicole Kidman, with whom he adopted two children.
Since Cruise and Holmes divorced, he had not been publicly linked with anyone until Atwell, who may be best known for playing Peggy Carter in the “Captain America” movies.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, production on “Mission: Impossible 7” has been arduous and protracted. The movie was supposed to start shooting in February 2020 in Italy, but production was shut down due to the pandemic. Production began again in the autumn, then stopped when some crew members tested positive for COVID-19.
In December, audio leaked from the Warner Bros. Studios set in the U.K. revealed more of Cruise’s famous intensity. On the recording, Cruise was heard ranting against members of the crew for not taking COVID-19 protocols seriously enough. “If I see you do it again, you’re (expletive) gone,” Cruise shouted in the audio, according to the Sun.