We recently brought you the news that Ving Rhames (Piranha 3D) would be reprising his role as Ethan Hunt’s tech expert, Luther Stickell and that Simon Pegg (Paul) was in talks to reprise his role as the lab geek, Benji Dunn in Paramount Pictures fourth installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise.

Now, in a recent (humorous) post on her personal blog, actress Jacinda Barrett (Matching Jack) casually mentioned that she’d auditioned for a role in the Brad Bird (The Incredibles) directed Mission: Impossible IV. Barrett didn’t say what the exact role was that she had auditioned for.

Tom Cruise will return as Ethan Hunt and will produce Mission: Impossible IV alongside Paula Wagner and Mission: Impossible 3 director J.J. Abrams, who worked on the story for the latest installment with screenwriters André Nemec and Josh Appelbaum.

Mission: Impossible IV is slated to hit theaters on December 16th, 2011.