John Sheardown and his wife Zena hid four of the six Americans. As stated earlier, Joe Stafford and his wife Kathy were the only ones staying with the Canadian Ambassador. The rest stayed with John Sheardown and his wife Zena they are not represented in the Argo movie. Canadian Ambassador Taylor, portrayed by Victor Garber in the movie, brought the Staffords with him for the meeting.
In the movie, Joe Stafford portrayed by actor Scoot McNairy expresses quite a bit of anxiety and reluctance with regard to Tony's proposed plan of having the group pose as members of a movie production company. The real Tony Mendez states that as they discussed the mechanics of the escape, Joe did express anxiety over the risks involved.
In the movie, Tony Ben Affleck and the six are left with no choice but to meet with two men associated with the Iranian film office. He yells at her and states that his son had been killed by a gun supplied by America. The true story behind the Argo movie reveals that this never actually happened, nor did they ever venture into town to scout a location.
Sheila Vand left as Sahar in the movie and the real maid named Lolita right. The housekeeper in the movie named Sahar Sheila Vand is based largely on John Sheardown's housekeeper, a Filipino woman named Lolita, who did not expose the secret about John and his wife's new houseguests, despite knowing the truth. John and his wife, who sheltered four of the six Americans, are not represented in the movie. Pat told their servants that the couple were tourists visiting Iran for a short time and that they were friends of her husband.
When interviewed about the real story, John Sheardown's wife Zena recalls a helicopter hovering over their home for quite a bit of time, which caused significant concern, believing that the Iranians had found out and were looking for their home. Unlike what is shown in the movie or in this case not shown in the movie , they later discovered that the police were looking for an Iranian gunman who assassinated a religious leader in that area.
To reiterate, John and his wife are not represented in the movie, despite hiding four of the six Americans.
Pat Taylor, the wife of Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor, received a strange phone call during which the caller, who would not identify himself, asked to speak with Joe Stafford, who had been hiding with his wife Kathy at the Taylor home.
Pat told the caller that she had never heard of Joe Stafford and told the person to call her husband. Ken Taylor never received a call. Yes, but in researching the Argo true story, we discovered that unlike what is shown in the film, Tony Mendez did not act as the interrogator. Instead, a man named Roger Lucy, who was house-sitting with the four Americans staying at the Sheardown's home, volunteered to be the interrogator.
He spoke Farsi fluently, the language of the area. He conducted the mock interrogations dressed in military fatigues, complete with a hat, jack boots, sunglasses and a swagger stick. Tony and his partner, who he calls "Julio", arrived in Mehrabad, Iran at 5 a. Tony departed Iran with the six Americans three days later on Monday morning, January The six Americans were in hiding in Iran for nearly 3 months, from November 4, until their escape on the morning of January 28, After eventually ending up in the large home of the Canadian Deputy Chief of Mission, John Sheardown not represented in the movie , they spent their time perfecting their culinary skills and playing lots of scrabble.
By comparison, the 52 hostages that remained in the American Embassy building for the entire duration of the Iran hostage crisis were not released until January 20, , almost a full year after Tony Mendez got the six Americans dubbed the "Canadian Six" out.
They spent a total of days as captives. The mission had never been called off at the last minute, forcing Tony Mendez to make a passionate call to his boss to tell him he was going through with it anyway. In reality, the mission had always been a go ever since American President Jimmy Carter gave his approval prior to Tony taking his flight into Tehran, Iran. The real Tony Mendez woke up forty-five minutes late the morning he was to meet up with the six Americans at the airport. He had slept through his watch alarm and was woken up when his ride to the airport had arrived and called his hotel room.
He rushed to get ready and made it downstairs 15 minutes later. Read how the Argo mission previously best known as the Canadian Caper really went down below.
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Editions Quartz. Chief of Mission. Real Argo : They never went to the marketplace to scout a location. Reel Argo : The mission is called off the night before they are scheduled to depart. The details were approved by policymakers in Ottawa and DC.
Reel Argo : Airline tickets are not waiting at the counter and have to be rechecked before the tickets are authorized and confirmed.
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