

We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. Eva Green’s Vesper Lynd had a cold aloofness to her that almost no other actor could touch, and Anne Hathaway’s almost superhuman desire to be liked by everyone she meets made her the ideal foil for Meryl Streep in Prada. But Monaghan’s role wasn’t particularly exciting, and now involves her showing up in subsequent Mission: Impossible films to do almost nothing at all, so this was arguably a dodged bullet.Ĭasino Royale and The Devil Wears Prada can also be written off, on the basis that they eventually found their perfect actors anyway. In Mission: Impossible III, she would have presumably played the role that eventually went to Michelle Monaghan (purely because everyone gets them confused).

We can ditch Get Smart from the equation immediately, because it was a bad film that nobody remembers anyway. There were definitely some anxious moments of wondering if I was just throwing it all away.”īut should she regret turning down those roles? Almost certainly not.

“But I also knew it wasn’t quite jiving with my personality and what I needed to stay sane. “I felt guilty for not capitalising on the opportunity that I was being given, because I knew I was in such a lucky spot,” She said. In a new Bustle profile, McAdams looks back on her lost years with a mixture of regret and healthy perspective.
