With “a lot of characters” joining the Tom Cruise franchise, Rebecca Ferguson says she had to make a difficult decision to have the “awesome” Ilsa Faust exit
is clarifying the reasons behind her exit from the franchise.
The actress behind Ilsa Faust called the character’s planned death in 2023’s Mission: Impossible – “collaborative” in an upcoming interview on WrapWomen’s podcast, per .
“Ilsa was becoming a team player,” said Ferguson, 40, of her butt-kicking assassin first introduced in 2015’s fifth entry in the -led series, Rogue Nation. “And we all can want different things, but for me… Ilsa was naughty. Ilsa was unpredictable.”
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In the franchise’s sixth and seventh entries, there were “a lot of characters coming in, not leaving enough space for what she had been,” she added.
Ilsa’s introduction to the Mission: Impossible world preceded as Alanna Mitsopolis a.k.a. the White Widow, as CIA Director Erika Sloane, as CIA assassin August Walker, as assassin Paris, as thief Grace and Esai Morales as terrorist Gabriel.
It was the latter character who murderously ended Ferguson’s reign as the “rogue” Ilsa, as the star reportedly said on UnWrapped. “To speak very clearly — because I know a lot of people are sad about it, I’m sad about it — I had filmed three films. My [contract] deal was done.”
She added that she loves her Mission: Impossible character “beyond words. I think she’s the most awesome, fantastic character.”
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Other considerations, she said, were the physical and logistical commitments to continuing in a blockbuster action franchise. “Selfishly, that’s a lot of time to make a Mission film. And unless you’re going to have a lot of screen time, that’s a lot of time sitting around waiting to film a huge movie that could take over a year to film.”
Ferguson added, “There’s a moment where you think it needs to be worth it, not just to love the character and to embrace Tom and [writer-director ] and the story. I want to work, man. I want to work. I don’t want to sit in a trailer… It is so intoxicatingly exciting when you’re rolling, but there’s a lot of waiting.”
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For a growing franchise — whose is expected to hit screens on May 23, 2025 — the star noted, “The more characters that are brought in, the more waiting.” After wrapping up Ilsa’s story in Dead Reckoning Part One, Ferguson pointed out, she filmed both Dune movies and two seasons of Apple TV+ drama Silo.
Ferguson also stars in the 2025 sci-fi drama Mercy with Annabelle Wallis and Chris Pratt.
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