-New Urban Cinema- "What's Love Got to Do With It" Star Angela Bassett Joins The "Mission:Impossible" Franchise , with German Theater Release Set for July 31st

The lady means business: the new lead spy of the free world, Angela Bassett starts a new franchise role as
Agent Sloane in the blockbuster action franchise, "Mission: Impossible 6- FALLOUT"

"Black Panther" & Academy-Award-nominated "What's Love Got to Do With It" star Angela Bassett has joined Tom Cruise in Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible 6 -FALLOUT” as Erica Sloane,  the new director of America's Central Intelligence Agency.  Tasked with keeping tabs on Cruise's character Ethan Hunt, agent Sloane is overseeing Hunt's mission to recapture stolen plutonium cores that are being used to build portable nuclear weapons by a terror organization. With Erica Sloane's arrival, she enlists an assassin from the  CIA's Special Activities Division to monitor Ethan Hunt and his team of spies in the sequel now being hailed as the best installment in the Mission Impossible action series to date. Below, the actress interviews during the film's press junket in Europe to talk about her new role, the franchise, and her experience working on the film:

Filming of Mission: Impossible - FALLOUT began April  2017 in France and debuted its world premiere in Paris July 12th, 2018. The film debuts in the US today (July 27th), and will hit German theaters on Wednesday, July 31st.

Bassett has taken a similar role as director of the U.S. Secret Service in the 2016 action-thriller “London Has Fallen.”  To see the star in her latest spy role as Erica Sloane, check the showtimes for "Mission: Impossible 6 -FALLOUT" at filmstarts.de