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- Rebecca Ferguson is giving more details about her tense on-set encounter with a male actor, which she first spoke about in 2024
- In a new interview with The Times, the Dune star shared that “other people who have worked with this person also had a s—– time”
- Ferguson confirmed that her encounter was not with Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds or Tom Cruise
Rebecca Ferguson is giving more details about her tense on-set encounter with a male actor.
Speaking with The Times for a story published on Thursday, Oct. 9, the Mission Impossible star, 41, addressed her February 2024 comments about the moment she had to deal with an “absolute idiot of a costar” on a movie set.
The actress first spoke out about the situation with the unnamed actor during an appearance on the Reign with Josh Smith podcast last year.
“This person would literally look at me and say, ‘You call yourself an actor?’ ” Ferguson recalled at the time, revealing that she asked the person to leave the set the following day.
“I remember being so scared. And I looked at this person and said, ‘You can eff off. I’m going to work toward a tennis ball. I never want to see you again,’ ” she continued.
Ferguson told The Times that she didn’t “care” if the unnamed person knew that she had made the comments about him, and shared that “other people who have worked with this person also had a s—– time.”
The Dune actress also spoke about not being entirely blameless in the encounter.
“I will shove someone under a bus in front of an entire crew to make a point,” she said candidly. “I don’t applaud my own behavior in that. It’s a really tricky world.”
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“We put a lot of blame on bullies, and when we get older, we can understand that people are insecure. When you start standing up for yourself, it’s really tricky,” Ferguson continued. “They’ll fire you and give the job to someone else.”
During her Reign podcast appearance last year, Ferguson spoke about one moment when the unnamed actor “was being so insecure and angry because this person couldn’t get the scenes out,” not disclosing their identity.
“And I think I was so vulnerable and uncomfortable that I got screamed at,” Ferguson added. “But because this person was No. 1 on a call sheet, there was no safety net for me. So no one had my back. And I would cry walking off set.”
Since making her comments last year, Ferguson confirmed that her encounter was not with Hugh Jackman, whom she costarred with in the 2021 movie Reminiscence, Ryan Reynolds, whom she shared the screen with in 2017’s Life, or Tom Cruise, her Mission: Impossible costar.
Elsewhere in her conversation with The Times, Ferguson reflected on acting alongside Cruise, 63, in three different Mission: Impossible films, jokingly calling him a “man child” — in a “good way.”
“I often joke that there’s someone with a tranquillizer gun and a net looking for him. It’s frustrating because you’re ready to shoot and the sun’s going down. Tom goes, ‘What are we waiting for?’ and I go, ‘You!’ And he laughs and goes, ‘F—, I’m sorry,’ ” she told the U.K.-based outlet.
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