Hayley Atwell Apologized to Tom Cruise When Her French Bulldogs Kept Farting on Him: 'People Were Gagging'

Hayley Atwell brought her French bulldogs to Tom Cruise's location for a movie nighttime that quickly turned awkward.

When nan actress, 43, appeared connected The Tonight Show connected Thursday, May 22 to beforehand Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, she told big Jimmy Fallon that she visited Cruise's location "to watch movies together and build up this benignant of rapport, this knowing of movie language" erstwhile she first joined nan franchise up of 2023's Dead Reckoning.

"He said, 'I perceive you person dogs. You should bring them over.' And I thought, 'Well that's rather a bully trial of character,' because if a canine likes you, past you're a beautiful coagulated guy, I think. They don't lie," she said. "So I brought them complete and they loved him, and they insisted connected sitting connected him for nan long of nan movie."

According to Atwell, French bulldogs are known for being "very potent farters," and her pets Wolfie and Iris did not hesitate to fart connected Cruise during nan watch party.

"So we're watching [a movie] and they're sitting connected [Cruise] and they were farting connected him nan full measurement done nan movie," she said. "And I'm sat location and I'm for illustration ohio my God, and I'm looking astir and there's immoderate different group who are gagging."

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The character said Cruise was "discreet" astir nan smelly business while a group of group watched nan movie together.

"He's enjoying nan movie and eating popcorn and astatine 1 constituent I thought, 'I've sewage to opportunity something, I'm truthful embarrassed,' " Atwell continued. "There was a lull successful nan movie and I conscionable turned to him astatine 1 constituent and I said, 'Sorry for each nan tooting.' "

"He was like, 'Uhh, yeah,' and went backmost to nan movie, and I was like, 'That's much awkward than nan farting!' " she added pinch a laugh.

Atwell, who plays thief Grace who joins Ethan Hunt's Impossible Missions Force squad successful nan conflict against an artificial intelligence known arsenic nan Entity successful nan Mission: Impossible films, besides shared nan communicative connected SiriusXM's Ben +1 recently, wherever she said Cruise was "completely oblivious, truthful polite, would ne'er remark connected anything" during her dogs' farting.

"He was, like, oblivious, but besides looking astatine maine like, 'What's nan accent about?' and I was like, it was truthful weird what came retired of my mouth," she added. "It was much awkward than nan dog's farting."

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is successful theaters now.