Here's How Angela Bassett Made History in the 'Mission: Impossible' Franchise: 'Iconic'

Here's How Angela Bassett Made History in the 'Mission: Impossible' Franchise: 'Iconic'

Angela Bassett made history as the first woman to ever deliver a mission briefing in the “Mission: Impossible” film franchise with her scene in “The Final Reckoning” “That came to me late,” Bassett, who plays President Erika Sloane, told TheWrap’s Drew Taylor of the history-making opportunity on the “Mission: Impossible”-centered podcast “Light the Fuse.” “It’d be interesting to ask [director Christopher McQuarrie] McQ how that happened, because…

The 8 hottest female co-stars in Mission: Impossible

Everyone talks about “Bond girls”—but maybe it’s time we talked about the Hunt girls. Hunt as in Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his eight Mission: Impossible films. Where James Bond’s love interests often leaned on glamour and seduction, Ethan Hunt’s female co-stars have been cut from a different cloth: elite spies, expert thieves, brilliant tacticians, and in many cases, emotional anchors who go far beyond eye candy. The Mission: Impossible franch…