Mission Impossible Fallout: Henry Cavill On His Moustache Drama — Exclusive

There are plenty of reasons to be excited about Mission: Impossible — Fallout: Tom Cruise hanging off a helicopter; the return of director Christopher McQuarrie; and the arrival of Henry Cavill as CIA agent August Walker. The Brit actor is playing a formidable new character in the long-running spy franchise, described by Cavill himself as a “sledgehammer” in a new interview with Empire.

As well as Walker’s intimidating combat style, as glimpsed in the first Fallout trailer, and the mystery of his true allegiance (it’s still unclear whether he’s a friend or foe of Ethan Hunt), there’s something else to talk about: that moustache. You know, the one that you almost didn’t see (or at least weren’t supposed to) in Cavill’s last mega-blockbuster. Now you can see it in its full glory in an exclusive new Mission image.

“When we decided to go for the moustache, I certainly wasn’t expecting all the events to unfold as they were going to unfold,” Cavill told Empire, admitting: “I wasn’t expecting Justice League reshoots to be as extensive as they were.” He added: “As you will see when [Mission] comes out, to have a fake moustache on would not have been a possibility.”

Once the Mission shoot was complete, Cavill was able to shave it off — a choice which he mournfully documented in an Instagram video. “I absolutely do miss it,” he says of his former facial fuzz. “I’d grown quite fond of it over time, but I’m also very happy to have my own face back.”

Read the full Henry Cavill interview in the new Summer Movie Blowout issue of Empire, hitting the shelves on Thursday 17 May. Mission: Impossible — Fallout is exploding into UK cinemas on 26 July.