‘Mission: Impossible’ Star Teases A Character’s Return In ‘Dead Reckoning- Part Two’

Agent Ethan Hunt returned to theater screens this past summer with Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part One. Alongside Hunt, played by Tom Cruise, came other returning and new characters, one of which was played by Pom Klementieff. 

Kelemntieff’s character, an assassin named Paris, was shown as an adversary for most of the film, before a change of heart during the climax, and helping out Hunt. Although it appeared that her character met her end during the films climax, a recent Instagram post from series regular Simon Pegg, suggests that her fate may not be as cut-and-dry as fans suspected. 

In the post, Pegg captioned it with, “Hard to kill! If you think you’ve seen the last of Paris… think again.” 

As ComicBook.Com reports as well, Klementieff has been spotted on set of Dead Reckoning Part 2, and while it is fully possible it could be for the filming of potential flashback sequences, which the series is no stranger to, Pegg’s post suggests that Paris did live and is the newest ally to help Hunt through the next film. 

One death that looks to be permanent moving forward, however, is that of Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa Faust, with director Christopher McQuarrie even saying that it was a long time coming. 

“It was one of the earliest conversations – around the set of Top Gun, we were already talking about it,” McQuarrie told Empire Magazine. “Any place you took that character would make less of her. It would suddenly become frivolous, which is something we’re always trying to avoid. The character would become frivolous, or she would just become a romantic interest. And it was never about creating a character who was defined by her love story with Ethan Hunt. Their relationship transcends a traditional love story.”  

“It’s a very heroic death for that character. It is not in any way, shape, or form disposable. It’s a noble and heroic death. That, to me, is the hardest thing to find for a character … Her death was one of the first things we shot. But the reasons came later — and we were not satisfied the first time I cut the scene together without those reasons in place. As a scene all by itself in a vacuum, [it] didn’t work.”

Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part Two is set to release May 23rd, 2025.