
A Mission: Impossible fan favourite returns three decades later. Even he's surprised
Rolf Saxon thought he was being pranked when the director of the new film contacted him for a role that actually expanded during production.
When Rolf Saxon first auditioned to play William Donloe in Brian De Palma's 1996 Mission: Impossible, he didn't think he had gotten the role of the

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