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2011 Film
- The Danza: Eric Bana plays Erik.
- Fake American: Australian Cate Blanchett plays the Southern accented CIA operative Marissa. The double she uses to interogate Hanna (who keeps the accent) is played by British Michelle Dockery.
- Fake Nationality: To complement the fake American, we have Australian Eric Bana and Irish Saoirse Ronan playing Germans. English Tom Hollander also dons a somewhat vague nationality as Isaacs (possibly German).
- Playing Against Type: For most of the cast.
- Saoirse Ronan has been known primarily for her roles in classy dramas like Atonement and The Lovely Bones, a typecasting that has largely held since then through films like Brooklyn, Mary, Queen of Scots (2018), Lady Bird, and Little Women. Hanna is her first and, to date, only Action Girl role.
- Cate Blanchett, the Aussie rose to end all Aussie roses, is a Smug Snake of a CIA agent who isn't afraid to shed some blood.
- Tom Hollander is known for characters with a refined dignity such as the nice vicar from Rev., or his idiot politician in In the Loop, or his villainous role in the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Here, he's a full-tilt leering Depraved Bisexual assassin with a fondness for canary-yellow jumpsuits and relishes the suffering of his victims.
- Directing example. Joe Wright, who is known for directing Oscar Bait dramas, directs a violent action thriller.
- Sleeper Hit: It didn't get much attention before its release and it's still a little obscure, but it was a commercial success and was well-received by critics and audiences alike. It was enough for Amazon to greenlight a remake series later that decade.
- Those Two Actors: Olivia Williams and Jason Flemyng also appeared together in Below.
2019- 21 Series
- Actor-Shared Background: Rhianne Barreto, like Sophie, is mixed race with European and South Asian descent.
- Dawson Casting: Saoirse Ronan was 14-15 year old when she played Hanna in the 2011 film, Esme Creed-Miles was 18 when she filmed the first season of the series.
- Fake American:
- Khalid Abdalla, who was born in Scotland and is of Egyptian ethnicity, plays Jerome Sawyer.
- Aine Rose Daly (242/Sandy), Yasmin Monet Prince (249/Clara), Anthony Welsh (Leo Garner), Chirelle Skeete (Teri Miller), Sèverine Howell-Meri (Helen), David Avery (Steven Mannion), Mark Bazeley (Robert Gelder), and Emma D'Arcy (Sonia Richter) are all British.
- Fake Nationality:
- Esme Creed-Miles is British, her character Hanna is Romanian.
- Swedish-American Joel Kinnaman plays German Erik Heller.
- Polish lumberjack Arvo is played by a Russian actor, Aleksandr Gorchilin.
- Those Two Actors: Joel Kinnaman and Mireille Enos previously co-starred in The Killing.
