Vanessa Kirby on her 'weird' 'Mission: Impossible' scene where she played 2 different versions of her character

• Warning, minor spoilers ahead for "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One."

• Vanessa Kirby told Insider about her "weird" scene as the White Widow in "Dead Reckoning Part One."

• The scene sees the British star play two very different versions of her character.

One of the most iconic tropes of the "Mission: Impossible" franchise is the IMF's mask machine, which Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team frequently use to impersonate people to steal something, fool someone, or just to generally cause chaos for their enemies.

The machine makes a return in 2023's "Dead Reckoning Part One" while Ethan and his team are trying to stop a rogue artificial intelligence from wreaking havoc on the world.

One key scene in the sequel — which we won't ruin just yet — sees the IMF try to impersonate an old frenemy, underworld leader Alanna Mitsopolis (Vanessa Kirby). Mitsopolis is a broker between criminals and potential buyers, so it's no surprise that the IMF might use her to find the AI.

There are plenty of masked scenes throughout the "Mission: Impossible" movies, but Vanessa Kirby recently told Insider how "weird" it was trying to play a layered version of her character.

"Because it's sort of me as an actor being my character, but playing someone else's character playing my character!" She said. "So it was like a triple. It was so weird."

Kirby added: "It was like a kind of kaleidoscope of 'how do I filter it through' because you're not just playing someone completely, you're playing someone pretending to be someone else. So, it was a bit of a weird one."

The star also pointed out that Alanna is visibly much more stressed out in the sequel because of her responsibilities to her family's criminal empire, which is a huge departure from her cool, calm, and collected appearance in the previous film, "Mission: Impossible - Fallout."

"If you thought realistically, psychologically, if someone has to run that family business, that is so ... I can't imagine the burden of it, it must be so stressful if nothing else," she said.

Hopefully, Alanna is still holding that empire together when "Dead Reckoning Part Two" arrives in theaters.

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