Hayley Atwell has punched World War II soldiers, infiltrated Nazi camps, and fought off superspies. Hell, she’s shot a gun at Captain America. But nothing could prepare her for her hardest stunt in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning.

“I was more nervous than I thought I would be,” Atwell tells Inverse. “Because I thought I've had such good training, and I'm not scared of heights usually.”

Like many new inductees into the Mission: Impossible franchise, Atwell received five months of training in a variety of skills: unarmed combat, martial arts, knifework, shooting, and race car drifting. But the one skill that had to be learned on the job was the fearlessness that only star Tom Cruise has conquered.

In an exclusive interview with Inverse, the Dead Reckoning star talks being handcuffed to Cruise, her on-set nickname, and how much she still misses Peggy Carter.

What We Do in the Shadows is a bit of a miracle. The FX comedy series took the premise of the beloved mockumentary film that inspired it — a group of vampires face the mundane struggles of living as roommates in a banal suburban town — and managed to match, and even surpass, the original. That the show is five seasons in and still finding new comedy to mine out of “vampires stuck in Staten Island!” is a gift unto itself. But it turns out that five seasons is what it takes for What We Do in the Shadows to start feeling redundant.