Tom Cruise allowed to travel to UK for Mission: Impossible 7 filming without 14-day quarantine period
Cast and crew on Hollywood blockbusters won’t be required to self-isolate for 14 days
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Your support makes all the difference.Tom Cruise is among the actors that will be allowed to enter the UK from the US without quarantining.
Following a discussion between Cruise and the UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, an exemption to coronavirus travel rules has been granted to the cast and crew of Hollywood blockbusters travelling to the UK for work.
This will allow filming on Cruise’s Mission: Impossible 7 to resume at Warner Bros Studios in the coming months without its stars being required to self-isolate for 14 days.
Dowden said: “The world’s biggest blockbusters and high-end TV shows are made in Britain. Our creativity, expertise and highly successful tax reliefs for our screen industries means that we are an in demand location that in turn delivers a great return for our economy.
“We want the industry to bounce back and exempting small numbers of essential cast and crew from quarantine is part of our continued commitment to getting cameras rolling safely again.”
On Friday, it was announced that the US was not one of the countries to be granted a “travel corridor” exemption to the UK, meaning that visitors are legally required to self-isolate for 14 days.
Production on the seventh Mission: Impossible film was initially halted as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, with Simon Pegg revealing last month that “the plan” was to restart in September.
First assistant director Tommy Gormley told BBC Radio 4: “This is our challenge. We are not a chamber piece movie. We do spectacle, and that is what people expect of us.
“Some things are very challenging such as stunt scenes, crowd scenes etc. but we can’t do a ‘Mission Impossible’ movie and not have a fight scene or car scenes in it,” he continued.
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