“George Clooney”
— Tony Mendez’s response when we asked who, besides Ben Affleck, he’d like to have seen play him in the movie “Argo.” Mendez was the real life CIA technical operations officer who helped six American diplomats escape Iran during the Iranian hostage crisis by pretending they were a Canadian movie crew. Mendez walked the red carpet at the D.C. “Argo” premiere Wednesday night alongside director and star Ben Affleck and co-stars John Goodman and Bryan Cranston, of “Breaking Bad” fame.
