Talk about a racquet. Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell, rumored to be dating, attended the Wimbledon finals on Saturday. They hit the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London (and were met by eager photographers) before watching Australia’s Ashleigh Barty defeat the Czech Republic’s Karolina Pliskova in three sets in the Women’s Singles trophy.
Cruise and Atwell are co-starring in the forthcoming seventh entry in the Mission: Impossible series. Chatter about the two being an item began in December.
The (unconfirmed) couple was joined by another M:I7 co-star, Pom Klementieff. Atwell and Klementieff are both alumni of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The former played Peggy Carter on the Captain America side of things, and Klementieff appeared as the empath Mantis, raised by Ego the Living Planet, in the Guardians of the Galaxy films.
Cruise made a second Wimbledon appearance on Sunday with co-star Esai Morales.
Mission: Impossible 7 was slated to start shooting in February 2020 in Italy but was shut down due to the pandemic. Production started again in autumn, then stopped when some crew members tested positive for Covid. In December, audio leaked from the set at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the U.K. in which Cruise took certain members of the production to task for not taking Covid protocols seriously. Production was halted yet again in June due to another positive Covid test.
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