DUBAI: American-British actress Hayley Atwell this week stepped out in a black gown by Saudi designer Mohammed Ashi, founder of Paris-based label Ashi Studio, to the premiere of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” in London.
Atwell, who plays a character called Grace in the film, turned heads as she wore a voluminous gown with a satin skirt — puffed out at the hips — and a velvet top from the designer’s Spring/Summer 2023 couture collection. She opted for a slicked-back hairstyle.
Atwell and Ferguson at the London premiere. (AFP)
Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Indira Varma, Vanessa Kirby, Simon Pegg and more attended the premiere with Atwell.
The movie is set to get a Middle East premiere on June 26. Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie will be jetting to Abu Dhabi to attend the screening at the Emirates Palace.
Some of the film’s scenes were shot in the Liwa desert and the Midfield Terminal in the UAE capital’s airport.
Cruise at the London premiere. (AFP)
McQuarrie, Cruise and the cast and crew shot in the emirate for almost two weeks in 2021 with the support of the Abu Dhabi Film Commission and other local production partners, including twofour54 Abu Dhabi.
Khalfan Al-Mazrouei, acting director-general of Creative Media Authority, said: “Hosting the premiere of ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ is an honor for Abu Dhabi and is also a reflection of the position the emirate holds as one of the Middle East and North Africa region’s top film and TV locations.
“We are proud to have worked with such a genre-defining franchise once again and it demonstrates how Abu Dhabi has everything filmmakers need to successfully complete such large, complex productions.”
In the film, Ethan Hunt, played by Cruise, and his IMF, or Impossible Mission Force, seek to track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity, before it falls into the wrong hands.
With the fate of the world at stake and dark forces from Hunt’s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Hunt is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission — not even the lives of those he cares about most.
