“Do you really think you’re an actress?”, someone would have asked her.
Or again: “And this is what I have to work with?”
Rebecca Ferguson indeed recounted in the podcast “Reign With Josh Smith”, on Tuesday February 27, that one of her former filming partners had one day shouted at her in front of the entire team of movie.
An individual she described as “absolutely stupid”.
If the heroine of
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning part 1
(2023) did not reveal her name, she confirmed that it was neither Tom Cruise nor Hugh Jackman.
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“No one supported me”
“I remember a moment when this person was insecure and angry because she couldn't act out a scene,” she said.
I was so vulnerable and uncomfortable when she yelled at me.
But since this person was number 1 on the filming sheet, there was no safety net for me.
Before adding: “So, no one supported me.
And I cried when I left the set.”
“Scared”, the Dune 2
actress
nevertheless decided to confront the filming partner in question.
"I looked at this person and said, 'You can get out. From now on, I'm going to hit a tennis ball (
a trick used to add special effects, editor's note
).'"
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After the incident, a producer reportedly told him: “You can’t do that to number 1. That person has to stay on set.”
Rebecca Ferguson therefore chose to speak directly to the director of the film, to ask him to intervene.
"He said, 'You're right. I don't take care of everyone else. I'm just trying to take care of this one person,'" she recalled.
From there, everything went really well, but it took me so long to get there.”
The actress nevertheless assured that this incident had taught her a lesson.
“Since then, I've never gotten to the point where I go home and say, 'What happened?'” she said.
Multiple hypotheses
After the podcast was broadcast, Internet users, revolted by this story, set out to find the identity of the culprit.
Under the post X (ex-Twitter) of the
Pop Crave
site , hypotheses flourished.
Some mention Jake Gyllenhaal, with whom Rebecca Ferguson shared the poster for
Life – Unknown Origin
(2017).
The others, Michael Fassbender, who starred in
The Snowman
(2017).
Elsewhere on the social network, some mention Hugh Grant, with whom she played in
Florence Foster Jenkins
(2016), or even Ewan McGregor, her filming partner in
Stephen King's Doctor Sleep
(2019).
Others nevertheless note that the actress did not specify the gender of the person in question, evoking in particular Irina Shayk, with whom she filmed in
Hercules
(2014).
However, some actors took the lead before their names appeared on this list.
The defense of Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt
Dwayne Johnson, her former playing partner in
Hercules
, shared a message of support for the actress.
“I hate hearing this, but I love knowing that she stood up to this person because of their bullshit,” The Rock wrote on X. “Rebecca was my guardian angel who fell from the sky onto our film set.
I love this woman.
I would love to know who did this.”
An anonymous source also defended Emily Blunt, also heroine of
The Girl on the Train
(2016), in the columns of the
Daily Mail
.
“Rebecca and Emily are friends and there is nothing but love between them,” the witness maintained.
The mystery therefore remains complete.
Internet users are determined to break through it.