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https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/07/mission-impossible-movie-spy-mythswe reached out to Dr. Vince Houghton, the historian and curator at the International Spy Museum, who dispelled some of the most common movie-spy myths while providing interesting information about the real-life Ethan Hunts of the world.
Movie myth: Spies are always kinda hot.
Spy reality: Spies are occasionally kinda hot, and are deployed depending on the mission’s requirements. “You want people who look like Daniel Craig or Tom Cruise if you need someone to go to a high-society function and fit in,” Houghton says. “Sometimes you want people who can recruit [assets] using their looks. And I don’t mean via sex—we frown upon that in the United States. They use sex a lot more in the Soviet side and East Germany, using what they call ‘honey traps’ or ‘Romeo spies.’ But it’s much easier to get someone to like you and work with you if you are good-looking and suave and you have the ability to kind of psychologically get into their head a little bit.”