The long-awaited Mission: Impossible – Deadly Counts Part 1 is finally out in theaters. With Tom Cruise in top form, the film also sees the introduction of a new, all-powerful villain: Gabriel. This antagonist, connected to the hero’s past, is played by comedian Esai Morales.
Born in 1962 to a welder father and a feminist union activist mother involved in the International Women’s Garment Workers Union, Esay Morales developed a passion for theater very early. After graduating from high school, he enrolled at the Manhattan School of Performing Arts. At the same time, he is going through castings.
Essay began his career in the early 1980s playing Sean Penn’s nemesis in Bad Boys, a violent prison film set in a juvenile prison. He then went on to star in Le Principal and La Bamba, before appearing in various TV series such as Two Cops in Miami and Fame.
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In the 1990s, he appeared in films such as Naked Tango, Freejack, Rapa Nui, The Forest of All Danger, Now in the Army, Rêves de famille, Enquête à San Francisco and Atomic Train. With a lot of spin, he becomes a celebrity of cinema and small screen, but never gets a leading role.
Hayley Atwell and Esai Morales in Mission: Impossible 7
In 2001, Esai Morales was cast as a major character in NYPD Blues until 2004. This is Lt. Tony Rodriguez. His roles on the small screen side are gaining momentum, with roles in American Family, Resurrection Blvd, Vanished and Jericho, a post-apocalyptic series opposite Skeet Ulrich.
At the same time, the actor continued his film career and appeared in the films Paid in Full, Heartless, Fast Food Nation, The Line and Cherry. In 2009, he landed one of the lead roles in Caprica, a science fiction family series starring Eric Stoltz set 50 years before the events of Battlestar Galactica.
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Still very active, Essay Morales has been more committed to TV series since the 2010s, as evidenced by his appearances in Facing Kate, Magic City, Criminal Minds, The Brink, One Night in Hell, Ozark, NCIS: Los Angeles, and Murder. In cinema, he starred in the DTV sequels Jarhead 2 and Never Back Down 3.
Esai Morales and Tom Cruise
In 2023, the Brooklyn native will portray a repentant FBI agent in Joel Edgerton’s Master Gardener and most notably played the villain of Mission Impossible 7. Rather, Esai Morales portrays Gabriel, a man determined to find the key that will give him control of his all-powerful weapon.
The actor says about this role: “He’s a great character because he’s afraid of nothing, and there’s nothing scarier than someone who isn’t afraid of what can be done to him, including killing him. I see him as an agent of change, absolutely convinced that technology is superior to man. The species .”
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He is also a ghost from Ethan Hunt’s past who has a very dim view of the future of humanity and enjoys causing pain to others. For reference, the role was first offered to Nicholas Hoult, who was forced to drop out due to the postponement of the film due to the covid-19 pandemic.
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