In Christopher McQuarrie’s “Mission: Impossible — Fallout,” it isn’t just Henry Cavill’s arm reload scene that gets fans off their seats and fist-pumping the air. It’s also the combined efforts of the all-star cast, including Vanessa Kirby, who portrays Alanna Mitsopolis, aka the White Widow. In a noteworthy scene, Kirby’s Alanna shares a quick kiss with Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt by a Parisian riverbank.
Discussing the nature of the kiss with Culture Trip, Kirby said that she had concerns about it from a character perspective. She explained how Alanna wouldn’t do anything without a motive, so she had to figure out why she would kiss Ethan in the first place. “He’s pretending to be somebody else,” she said. “She senses that and she’s not really going to let him get away with it, so it was fun. The first few kisses I really went for it, was quite worried it was too aggressive, but in the end it made sense, really, that it wasn’t too sensual.”
While Kirby didn’t find the kiss to be too intense, it still sparked the attention of the media. Paparazzi caught snaps of the pair kissing for the scene and gossip spread like wildfire that they had started dating. Kirby couldn’t even believe that she had to deny the latest churnings from the rumor mill. Hollywood, right?
