Redgrave's decision to play a delightfully,er,disarming arms dealer in Mission Impossible was cute.. Archived Message
Posted by Jim_Carlucci on December 4, 2021, 11:44 am, in reply to "Heroes of Hollywood No. 1: Vanessa Redgrave"
..at least she didn't play a UK Establishment figure eg. head of MI6 And it was directed by Brian de Palma after all. The Mission Imp franchise was later fully co-opted by Pentagon ghost-writers of course: eg. most egregiously and brazenly when - 22 years after Redgrave's 1996 (pre 9/11..innocent times) MI appearance - Wolf Blitzer makes an ever so heroic personal appearance in MI "Fallout"(2018). Shameless flag-waving US State Propaganda. Two vids: 1) Redgrave as the charmingly,er,disarming arms dealer "Max":
2) ...at the end of the following MI clip Wolf Blitzer removes his mask to reveal - not the face of the Pentagon but the face of Simon Pegg(from Gloucester UK, born+bred) :
For more on Redgrave's arms dealer role: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_(film)
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