Mission Impossible 7 Star Addresses Why He Returned after Being Ignored in 6 Movies
Tom Cruise’s action-packed franchise Mission Impossible has become the talk of the town with its latest installment. However, the primary reason for that is not Cruise’s life-threatening, thriller stunts. Instead, it is because of a certain blast from the past sort of arc. Henry Czerny has joined the franchise for this movie as the IMF director. Such a move is unprecedented in the series, which is what makes it all the more intriguing.
What Does Henry Czerny’s Comeback Entail For The IMF?
Henry Czerny has played is a skilled thespian of our times. The mention of his playing Kittridge again has fans enthralled. The possibility of getting to witness the classic condescending stare-down he subjected Tom Cruise to all these years ago has boosted the anticipation for this movie.
Czerny told Variety that he when got the call for him to play the role of Eugene Kittridge again, he thought it a big joke.
“I think it’s a joke at first because my reps called me and said they want to bring Kittridge back and I’m in the middle of doing my errands in Los Angeles and fighting traffic or shredding old tax documents,” he told Variety. “I think, ‘Okay, what’s going on really?’ They say, ‘Chris McQuarrie wants to talk to you about bringing Kittridge back,’ and I take it seriously. Two days later, I’m on a call with Chris McQuarrie.”
“Henry’s Kittridge is not a villain,” McQuarrie wrote in an email. “He’s not even an antagonist. He’s a worthy adversary, walking the line between a guy we love to hate and want to like. He’s a bastard, but he’s a bastard we want on our side.”
Why was Kittridge Left Behind in the First Place?
It has been a trend with the Mission Impossible movies that the IMF gets a new director with each installment of the franchise. It cannot be said why makers decided to lay Kittridge off in 1996. Although, Czerny guesses it could have been his naivety as a young actor. Or having a new director for the IMF every movie could have been the plan all along. This was Czerny told in an interview:
So, after Mission: Impossible, the first month, I had lunch with Paula Wagner, who was, at that time, Tom [Cruise’s] producing partner. And I let her know all the things they didn’t do with Kittridge, and what they should be doing with Kittridge in the future if they had options. And she was very polite, very nice, and paid for the lunch. And that’s the last I saw of Mission: Impossible. I burned that bridge. I don’t know if they planned to [drop the Kittridge character] anyway, because as you know, Ving [Rhames] and Tom are the two tent poles, if you will, from the original. So maybe that was in the works all the time, I don’t know. But I certainly didn’t do myself any favors as a young actor telling Paula Wagner what she missed in this supporting character.
Kittridge’s comeback seems very promising for plot development and adventurous twists in the series.
Source: Variety
