Thandie Newton Shares Her ‘Nightmare’ Tom Cruise Story from ‘Mission: Impossible 2’

Thandie Newton holds nothing back in a new Vulture interview covering her nearly three decades as a working actress.

Newton gets brutally honest about a handful of career-defining projects, from her growing frustrations over “Westworld” to her issues filming the sexual assault scene in “Crash,” and one of Newton’s most notable stories involves the making of “Mission: Impossible 2.” Newton was cast as Tom Cruise’s love interest Nyah Nordoff-Hall in the John Woo-directed action sequel.

One moment with Cruise on set proved to be a nightmare.“I was so scared of Tom.

He was a very dominant individual,” Newton said.

“He tries super hard to be a nice person.

But the pressure.

He takes on a lot.

And I think he has this sense that only he can do everything as best as it can be done.”Newton remembered a time she got angry with Cruise during

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