Carrie-Anne Moss became a highly popular name after the massive success of The Matrix franchise. She played the role of Trinity in the movies, and her action-packed scenes in the movie provided her immense appreciation. The Canadian actress is known for her relentless passion for acting and hard work in her roles. The actress also has numerous accolades for movies like Memento, Snow Cake, Unthinkable, and Silent Hill: Revelation, among others.
Her spectacular acting in The Matrix drew the attention of people from all over the entertainment industry. Director Joe Carnahan was one among them who noticed her talent and decided to cast her in his upcoming project. He contacted Moss and finalized as the female lead of Mission: Impossible 3. However, there was some change of plans, which led to the dropping of the actress from the movie.
Carrie-Anne Moss Rejected from Tom Cruise Movie
Carrie-Anne Moss is a remarkably talented actress, who proved her skill in numerous movies. Owing to her professionalism, director Joe Carnahan selected her for Tom Cruise’s smashing franchise Mission: Impossible. She was all set to play the role of Julia, Ethan Hunt’s love interest in the movie. Moss was excited about her role and had started preparing for her stunts. She shared in an interview with About.com,
“I had said after The Matrix that I would never make an action film again. And then I got offered Mission: Impossible and I just had to say yes. It just felt like the right thing to do, so I think things sort of come your way and you make your choices. It’s very different than Trinity, so I can’t say that I did. I might’ve had a few moments where I was like, “What am I doing, doing another action film?” But life is interesting. Never say never.”
However, Director, Carnahan’s script was not liked by the producers. They gave it to Robert Towne for a rewrite. Carnahan found Towne’s work uninspiring and bad. It led to several arguments, and finally, Joe Carnahan walked out.
After watching the popular series Alias, Cruise decided to hire JJ Abrams as the new director. He brought many changes to the plot of the Mission: Impossible 3 movie, which included deleting the character of Moss.
As per the characters in the movie, the actors were already cast to portray the roles. It included the Marvel star and Oscar-nominated Scarlett Johansson and she had to work along with Carri-Anne Moss and Kenneth Branagh. But with the change of director and script, it was unclear if any of them would be part of the movie.
Tom Cruise said,
“I want to work with Carrie and Scarlett, and Kenneth is someone I’ve been wanting to work with for years, but you have to start with the director and see where he’s going to take us.”
At the time, there were rumors that Johansson and Moss were fired from the movie, but it was later cleared that the actress had dropped out of the film due to the script changes and delay in the schedule.
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Michelle Monaghan plays the lead in Mission: Impossible 3
The film, Mission: Impossible 3 was director J.J. Abrams’s feature directorial debut. The story follows the life of Tom Cruise as a spy named Ethan, who has taken up retirement from fieldwork in the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). He trains new spies and was engaged to Monaghan’s character Julia Meade. She is a nurse who knows nothing about Ethan’s history as a spy.
As Ethan thinks he has finally settled down, he is sent on a mission to track an elusive arms dealer, Owen Davian (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman).
Mission: Impossible 3 made a massive box office collection of $398 million worldwide against a budget of $150 million. As for the franchise, the 7th movie is set to come out this year, starring Tom Cruise.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 is set to come out on 14 July 2023.
Source- Movie Web
