Silo Season 2: Scene that left Rebecca Ferguson in tears and how former Mission Impossible co-star Tom Cruise has helped her | Interview

Rebecca Ferguson is no stranger to daring stunts after years of working on Mission Impossible films alongside Tom Cruise.

But there was one in her new TV series that pushed the actress to breaking point, as she filmed season two of Silo.

“I broke down crying, and I walked off,” Ferguson, who is also executive producer on the sci-fi series, admits to 9honey Celebrity.

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“I went to Aaron, the stunt guy, and I go ‘I can’t do it. I can’t f—ing handle this’.

“It was the scene when she falls in the water, so we are at the top of the stairs in the studio, and it’s like, I don’t know, 12 metres [up].

“I’ve done heights with Tom when we do Mission [Impossible], but this time … it’s a platform and a trampoline, and you’re face down and then you fall off and then you have to turn upside-down and fall backwards over the edge. So yeah, that wasn’t happening, was it?!

“I got so angry at myself and I’ve got Claire, my stunt girl, so I had to just push that ego aside.”

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Ferguson tells 9honey Celebrity her Mission Impossible co-star has taught her lots over the years on how to handle such edge-of-your-seat scenes.

“We’ve worked together for 10 years, watching him …and watching not just Tom, I think, for me, Tom does the stunts, but we all train with Wade Eastwood and our entire stunt team, so the training process is what I’m learning from,” she says.

“And then also with Tom, I would see how he double checks things and how he acts around it and that you can be professional and fun at the same time.”

The post-apocalyptic AppleTV+ series shows a community clinging to survival in deep underground silos after the outside world becomes too toxic.

Ferguson’s character is Juliette Nichols, an engineer who becomes head of the police department and is tasked with investigating the death of her former colleague and unravels secrets that threaten their organised world.

Nichols is led to believes the silo is being tricked into believing they can’t go outside when the world is perfectly safe and ventures outside at the end of season one, coming across another silo like their own at the start of season two.

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There’s not just one intense stunt scene in the 10-episode season, there are many – and Ferguson’s co-stars, including Tim Robbins, Common and Steve Zahn, don’t envy her role one bit.

“I’ve done some films where I’ve done stunts and I love it, but I was like, ‘Man, I’m glad I don’t have to do those stunts’,” rapper and actor Common laughs to 9honey Celebrity.

“I like what I’m doing on this show, I love it actually.”

Robbins, who plays “Head of IT” Bernard, echoes a very similar sentiment.

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“I used to do a lot of daring stunts when I was younger, I’d prefer to do them myself,” he tells 9honey Celebrity.

“But now I’m like, ‘Nahhhh, I’ll break my bones’.”

Similarly, new recruit Zahn, whose character Solo meets Nichols in the new silo, was happy to not be joining her in many of the adventures.

“No,” he laughed when asked if he wished he could have done some stunts.

“[Rebecca] could do all that, go for it. I love that my guy was just kind of, like… I didn’t have to go up and down the staircase. I had excuse to, like, have a couple more pounds on me.”

Silo season two premiered November 15 on Apple TV+, with new episodes released weekly.

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