Wonder what Tom Cruise saw in her? Paula Patton is the sexy star of “Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol”. She told GQ she was “doing physical stunts, feet in the mud, fingernails full of dirt, shooting and fighting for my life.”

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View more outtakes from GQ’s Patton photo shoot.

(Photo credit: Mark Seliger/GQ)