She told the outlet that she was grateful for this separation between her professional life and personal life.
But evidently, she’s still able to maintain some level of anonymity in some areas of her life.
“She was so shocked, and I turned so red,” Ferguson said.
“Eventually I laughed and she laughed.”
From Swedish soap actor to Hollywood superstar, this is the transformation of Rebecca Ferguson.
Her mother was raised in England and eventually relocated to Sweden, where she briefly worked with ABBA.
“Like people do now with sage,” she said.
Her father, meanwhile, was a Swedish businessman.
Her parents were never married and separated when Rebecca was just 3.
She lived with both of them.
“My mother raised me to try things out,” she said toNumero.
“I did ballet, tap, dance, street, funk, jazz.
I did basketball, gymnastics.
There’s nothing I haven’t tried.”
“No theater, no school plays.”
In fact, the experience actually helped her when she finally started acting.
“I was never worried of making a fool out of myself,” she explained to Numero.
“I don’t remember the process, but I became the lead of this soap opera.”
She worked on the show for a year and a half.
Starring in a TV show at 15 made Ferguson grow up fast.
“The work environment became second nature to me,” she said inVanity Fair.
In fact, she actually started paying her mother rent.
Living away from home, Ferguson found herself unsure of her next steps.
“Mostsincereactors go to drama school,” she said to The Guardian.
“They watch Bergman and wear purple berets.
That wasn’t me.
I didn’t know what the craft was.”
“Some people sharp-elbow themselves through life just to get what they want,” she reflected.
“I never felt that drive… For me, it’s been a slow process.”
What’s more, she would embrace jumping back in where she got her start.
“I wouldn’t feel like a rookie.”
Getting the role was, she told theBBC, “an absolute emotional rollercoaster.”
In fact, it was the first time she had ever had an audition in London.
After a series of auditions, it was down to her and one other actor.
“We were both staying in different hotels waiting to hear,” she recalled.
“I did not sleep.
My agent called … the next morning.
The magnitude of the gig sank in for Ferguson when she was sitting on a throne in costume.
The performance caught the attention of studios, too.
As she told Crash, “‘The White Queen’ led to meetings, lots of castings.”
In 2015,Rebecca Ferguson starred opposite Tom Cruise"Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation.”
This was followed by two more films in the franchise.
For Ferguson, this meant working on giant sets, heading to crazy locations, and doing wild stunts.
In fact, she even learned how to ride a motorcycle for the films.
What’s more, the former soap star learned to feel at home in the world of big-budget franchises.
“I was thrown into ‘Mission,’ what, 10 years ago?
“I’ve had all of these incredibly high, studio, intense films…
I’ve done big studio films, so it feels like my body’s cradled into the masses.”
At first, Ferguson kept their marriage private.
“Also, I’m not very religious.
I believe in love.”
Naturally, her wedding wasn’t exactly conventional.
She also opted out of donning a traditional wedding dress.
Ferguson has a son, Isac, from a previous relationship.
She and Gainer also had a daughter, Saga.
As a mother, Ferguson is unflinchingly honest.
“When [Isac] asks things, I’m very honest,” she told theIndependent.
“We had lots of conversations about sexuality when he was younger.”
Rebecca Ferguson was on board with the #MeToo movement straight away.
As she said in the Independent in 2019, it’s “so bloody brilliant.”
Like so many other women in Hollywood, Ferguson has endured disrespect and harassment in the workplace.
“I’ve walked off a set with a male director once.
Ferguson mustered up the courage to confront the director, but she only left the conversation more frustrated.
“I realised he was very manipulative,” she said.
She concluded, “And he never did.
That was it.”
“How do you not want to do that?”
But finding the character of Jessica wasn’t entirely easy.
“There was a calmness over her,” she said.
“I did a lot of meditation and breathing.”
She also is one of the producers on the series.
Ferguson was drawn to the role as it gave her a chance to play tap into her grittier side.
“I’m learning to be a producer,” she toldScreenRant.
“That’s basically what I want to do.”
Apparently, the unnamed co-star would scream at her, leaving her in tears.
“Because this person was number one on a call sheet, there was no safety net for me.
So no one had my back.”
However, Ferguson didn’t put up with it for long.
After that, she refused to work with the actor again.
The clip quickly went viral, and fans expressed their outrage on her behalf.
Rebecca was my guardian angel sent from heaven on our set.
I love that woman.
I’d like to find out who did this.”
It sounds like Ferguson is as big a fan of the franchise as anyone.
“It’s a collaboration of what is like the bee’s knees of fame,” she said.
“You kind of go, ‘This is crazy.'”
Yes, she’s ahuge star, but she tries to live a normal life.
For starters, she doesn’t reside in Hollywood.
“I still split my time between my little fishing village and London,” she once told Crash.
Maintaining her privacy is perhaps her ultimate aim.
