She said, “Social anxiety… It manifests in different ways, but the pep talk (Tom) gave me helps that. 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? Do I seem awkward?’ We go into ourselves, and Tom said: ‘Try doing the opposite.”
Atwell, who will play Grace again in the eight-part “The Final Reckoning” of the venerable franchise, stated that it gets easier to get over fear once one can pinpoint its cause.
Additionally, she said, “So he was just like: ‘If you are scared of something, just keep looking at it. Just try not to close your eyes or turn away. Just keep looking at it and it will often give you information about what to do to overcome it.”
Atwell and Cruise’s chemistry was generally praised by movie critics, despite “Dead Reckoning” being a little underwhelming at the box office with $571 million worldwide. After her role as Peggy Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Atwell’s second significant Hollywood franchise is the “Mission: Impossible” series.
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