In Mission: Impossible Fallout (2018), Tom Cruise stars opposite Rebecca Ferguson, who plays British secret agent Ilsa Faust.
Rebecca Ferguson was six months pregnant during filming and prone to nausea. But she secretly vomited every day, fearing she would be deemed unfit and replaced by another actress.
While filming a fight scene with the film’s main villain, played by Shawn Harris, her pregnancy had an unexpected, and relatively embarrassing, consequence.
The scene in question takes place at the end of the film. Rebecca tries to strangle Shawn Harris by pinning him between her legs.
She sat on him and had to grab her own leg and deliver a sharp blow, pretending to crush her opponent’s throat. The position was uncomfortable, and the actress had to be helped into position by the crew.
However, the moment the director called action and Rebecca gave her calf a sharp blow, the actress involuntarily let out a gigantic “vaginal fart” (a “fanny fart” in the original version) in her partner’s face.
“Poor Shawn was literally stuck between my thighs, my big breasts, and my stomach, ” she says. “He couldn’t move. I heard him moan, ‘Get me out of here!’”
I said, ‘Sorry, man, I can’t move. You’re going to have to pull yourself together…’