The one that some media dares to call the new Lauren Bacall, the Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson seems to have entered the world of Hollywood celluloid through the front door.
The main culprit for such a takeoff has been none other than the brilliant American superstar Tom Cruise. He proposed her for the fifth installment of the blockbuster Mission: Impossible, and she has shined with her own light, even outshining agent Ethan Hunt himself, or so the critics say. The actress says that little did she know how successful she was when she got off a camel during a shoot in the desert to go on a date with Cruise.
She dropped everything to meet him and 17 hours later she was in London meeting him. The actor noticed her after seeing her in The White Queen. "I thought I would need a paper bag to hyperventilate when I met him, but the conversation was so comfortable that I forgot to be nervous. He is nothing more than a man who loves what he does," the actress later said. She returned to the desert to conclude her previous commitment to a television series and then join the filming of Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation.
Critics say that the sequel to Agent Hunt far surpasses previous bets and that its greatest success is, without a doubt, the signing of Ferguson. The actress, far from paying homage to the vase super-agent archetype, responds to Hunt by becoming the female version of him. "Ilsa is Ethan Hunt as a woman. It's as if he found in her someone who is on her level," the actress has summarized on more than one occasion. And if that were not enough, the Swede is useful and sufficient to embody the agent without the need for doubles for the dangerous scenes.
Ferguson prepared thoroughly by training six hours a day for a month before getting into trouble. She said in an interview in People that she managed to overcome her own fears: "I have vertigo and a fear of heights but I managed to free fall 36 meters. I'm still patting myself on the shoulder for doing it."
The actress, a distant relative of Sarah Ferguson (ex-wife of Prince Andrew), was born on October 19, 1983 in the central district of Stockholm, where her mother Rosemary moved after leaving her native England. She made her film debut in 2004 (21 years old) with a small role in a modest Swedish horror film The Ghost of the Lake. Before she had already worked on television: in 1999, at only 16 years old, she was part of the cast of the series Nya tider.
In the following years, she appeared in individual episodes of fictions such as Ocean Ave, Wallander and Der Kommissar und das Meer. That was until her first leading role came in the successful series The White Queen, where she played Queen Elizabeth Woodvilleque, a performance that dazzled Cruise and with which she began to break her anonymity beyond Sweden, as she was nominated. to a Golden Globe in 2014.
After the success of Mission: Impossible we will be able to see her alongside Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant in Florence Foster Jenkins. She will also co-star in the film adaptation of the best-seller of the moment, The Girl on the Train, and is a strong candidate to play the next Marvel heroine. As Heroic Hollywood recently published, everything indicates that Ferguson is the favorite to play Carol Danvers in the film that the company plans to release in 2018.
Before becoming an actress she dabbled as a model. At the age of 13 she was already participating in advertising campaigns for Swedish magazines and in television advertisements for makeup and clothing brands. Now she is getting used to fame, although she confesses that she still has a hard time getting used to the flashes and the red carpets.
"He is surreal, uncomfortable and strangely intoxicating," she says. A new life that she must combine with her son Isac, 8 years old and the result of her relationship with her ex-partner Ludwig Hallberg. With her little one, he loves to escape to her native Sweden and take refuge in her house, which is an old windmill, located in a small fishing town, well away from the hustle and bustle of Hollywood. There she replaces heels with fishing boots.
