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Hayley Atwell Was Nearly 9 Months Pregnant While Filming ‘Mission: Impossible’ Fight Scene

“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!’” the actor revealed.

Hayley Atwell at the "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning" premiere Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Hayley Atwell revealed that she was almost nine months pregnant while shooting one of the film’s fight scenes. Of the experience, she told The Hollywood Reporter dog sledding in the Arctic was “Invigorating, empowering, mind-blowing, surreal,” and they even had to pause filming when a polar bear “walked across the set.”

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