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Tom Cruise Helped Hayley Atwell Overcome Social Anxiety by Telling Her: ‘If You’re Scared of Something Just Keep Looking at It’
Hayley Atwell says Tom Cruise gave her the best advice about overcoming social anxiety.
Hayley Atwell appeared on a recent episode of “Reign With Josh Smith” podcast and credited her “Mission: Impossible” co-star Tom Cruise for helping her battle social anxiety in Hollywood. “It manifests in different ways, but the pep talk [Tom] gave me helps that, which is if you walk into a room and you feel the anxieties coming, and it makes me want to retreat into myself, I start to overthink, and go: ‘Do I look weird? While “Dead Reckoning Part One” slightly underwhelmed at the box office with $571 million worldwide, Atwell and Cruise’s chemistry was widely acclaimed by film critics.
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