Hayley Atwell Reveals She Was 8 Months Pregnant Filming New ‘Mission: Impossible-The Final Reckoning’ Fight Scene

Hayley Atwell were given candid about her time taping Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, and printed that she used to be 8 and a part months pregnant whilst filming a pivotal battle scene.

In an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that aired on Thursday, May 22, Atwell, 43, went into element about her on-set revel in when the late-night host requested if the target market must know anything else ahead of he rolled a clip of her efficiency.

Atwell mentioned, “I’ve never said before, actually. This is a Fallon exclusive. But during this fight sequence, we came back to it a few times to add a few elements to it. And in this clip, I’m actually eight and a half months pregnant.”

Fallon, 50, jumped in with wonder, announcing, “Are you serious?”

The actress elaborated, “I’m serious. Yes. And I have to say, I was taken such good care of. Everyone was so supportive and they were like, ‘Oh, you can sit down, and we’ll have a stunt double do it.’ And I was like, ‘No! I’ve worked too hard. Let me do it.’ So I did it, and here it is.”

Atwell has seemed within the Mission: Impossible franchise as IMF agent Grace since 2023. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is the long-running motion franchise’s 8th and ultimate installment.

Atwell quietly welcomed her first kid along with her spouse Ned Wolfgang Kelly in 2024. Details in their dating and her being pregnant stay underneath wraps, regardless that the actress reputedly showed she married Kelly in a May 19 episode of LIVE with Kelly and Mark wherein she referred to him as her husband.

Kelly and Atwell were given engaged in 2023. “We had rented this Airbnb that had lots of shelves with porcelain ducks on them, so it was quite a surreal setup,” the actress recounted to the Daily Mail‘s Eden Confidential in 2023.

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She then detailed the instant he proposed. “My fiancé was in his [underwear] in the kitchen, and there was an accordion playing outside our window — which was timed perfectly but not planned,” Atwell informed the opening.

Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning is in theaters now.