Mission Accepted

British star Tom Wilkinson may be playing the man who sets in motion the turbulent drama at the heart of The Debt - along with friend and co-star Dame Helen Mirren, pictured - but an arguably bigger thrill came with another role.

For in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, which is out at Christmas, he gets to utter the immortal line 'your mission, should you choose to accept it....' which surely fixes him with a place in screen history, or at least the trailer.

"That was one of the reasons I agreed to do it," the actor explains. "I wasn’t involved very much, and I don’t think I’ve ever watched the television series, but I knew that was the line to say."