Jason Statham’s popular heist movie The Bank Job has a brilliant yet unsuspecting cameo.
The Bank Job remains one of Jason Statham’s highest-rated movies of his illustrious film career with a Rotten Tomatoes critic score of 80% and an equally impressive audience score of 74%. Released in 2008, The Bank Job sees Statham’s Terry Leather as the protagonist, an ordinary car dealer in London who gets the opportunity of a lifetime to steal a massive fortune from an unalarmed bank.
The Bank Job was directed by Roger Donaldson (No Way Out, The Bounty) and based on a screenplay by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (Across the Universe). The film earned a worldwide box office total of $61.1 million against a production budget of $20 million and is considered one of the most notable heist movies of the 21st century. Statham starred in Snatch (2000), The Transporter (2002), The Italian Job (2003), and Crank (2006) before starring in The Bank Job.
Mick Jagger Plays A Bank Employee In Jason Statham’s The Bank Job
The Bank Job has an impressive cast led by Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, and James Faulkner. The most surprising appearance in The Bank Job, however, is none other than Mick Jagger, the internationally famous lead singer of the legendary British rock band The Rolling Stones. Jagger, now 81 years old, plays a bank employee in The Bank Job with large glasses and flat brown hair, which makes him nearly unrecognizable compared to his usual rock ‘n’ roll look.
It was almost as if director Roger Donaldson was trying to hide Jagger’s cameo in The Bank Job, considering his heavily layered costume and momentary screen time. Although Jagger was originally uncredited in The Bank Job and caused many years of online confusion and speculation on the internet, he is officially included in the cast list on IMDb. Up until 2019, The Bank Job was the most recent film that Jagger had appeared in before he starred alongside Elizabeth Debicki and Donald Sutherland in the mystery thriller The Burnt Orange Heresy.
The best scenes of Jason Statham’s career highlight the actor’s inventive action skills as well as his surprisingly great capability for comedy.
Mick Jagger’s Movie History Explained
Jagger made his first feature film appearance as the titular protagonist in 1970’s Ned Kelly, a true crime biopic written and directed by Tony Richardson (A Taste of Honey, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner). He also starred in the 1970 movie Performance alongside James Cox as a jaded rockstar named Turner. He played himself in 1978’s All You Need Is Cash and a fictional version of himself in 1987’s Running Out of Luck. His only other cinematic acting roles were in the films Freejack (1992), Bent (1997), Enigma (2001), and The Man From Elysian Fields (2001) before his inconspicuous cameo in The Bank Job.
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