‘The Agency’ Star Richard Gere Explains Bringing an ‘American Point of View’ to the French Espionage Thriller

The A-lister also reveals why it was important to “loosen up” his character

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Richard Gere as Bosko and Michael Fassbender as Martian in "The Agency" (Photo Credit: Luke Varley/Paramount+)

Agreeing to star in “The Agency” was an easy yes for Richard Gere given the star was already a fan of the espionage drama’s source material. But differentiating this Paramount+ with Showtime original from the French “The Bureau” was entirely different matter.

“It looked like a movie. It was long-form version of movie storytelling with very rich and complicated characters,” Gere told TheWrap when asked why he enjoyed “The Bureau.” The Canal+ espionage thriller originally ran from 2015 to 2020 and focused on what Gere described as “post-colonial Earth and what culture has done to culture.”

“[‘The Agency’] is dealing with the present since then, and certainly from the American point of view.

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