Mission: Impossible's Hayley Atwell recalls fiancé's 'trouserless' proposal
Mission: Impossible star Hayley Atwell has opened up about her fiancé's slightly underprepared proposal.
The star and Ned Wolfgang Kelly got engaged back in April during a getaway in Venice, and the actress – who appears in the latest instalment of the action franchise Dead Reckoning Part One – recalled how Kelly was trouserless when he decided to pop the question.
"My fiancé was in his pants in the kitchen, and there was an accordion playing outside our window – which was timed perfectly but not planned," Atwell said (via Daily Mail).
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"We had rented this Airbnb that had lots of shelves with porcelain ducks on them, so it was quite a surreal set-up."
Despite the lack of trousers, it seemed Kelly put a lot of thought into it in general, Atwell revealing: "I said to him, 'Venice was my first most precious destination', and I've always had a weird connection with it. So, he took me there, and it happened there."
The actress takes on the role of Grace in the new Mission: Impossible movie, and recently revealed to Digital Spy that she wanted to do her own stunts in the film.
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"You don't come in as the leading lady opposite Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible if you don't want to do your own stunts or you're like, 'I'm going to sit this one out.' He'll be like, 'What? But you can do it,'" she said.
Speaking about her strict training programme, Atwell added: "We had this expert team of stuntmen and women who oversaw all my training, so it meant I was fit for purpose.
"It meant on any given day, my physical behaviour and what I'd built up to physically be able to do was dynamic, it was safe enough so I could change elements of the performance so I could make her seem more reckless or more full of self-doubt."
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is out now in UK and US cinemas.
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