Jessica is one of Maya’s colleagues, and probably the only one you could plausibly describe as her friend.
Bissonnette also describes Jen’s reaction when they brought back bin Laden’s body: At one point Bissonnette describes how he asked Jen, “Honestly, what are the odds it’s him?” “ ‘ One hundred percent,’ she shot back, almost defiant,” Bissonnette writes. While some of the movie’s details differ slightly-Maya is recruited out of high school, not college, before working on the operation for a full decade-other Jen-related passages from the book read like the shooting script for Zero Dark Thirty. She was, he says, “our go-to analyst on all intelligence questions regarding the target.” In the book, former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette, who published the book under the name “Mark Owen,” says that Jen was “recruited by the agency out of college,” had been “working on the Bin Laden task force” for five years, and that “she’d worked to put all the pieces together” in tracking bin Laden to Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Maya is widely assumed to be based on a real CIA agent referred to as “Jen” in No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden. Stills from Zero Dark Thirty by Jonathan Olley / ©2012 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Below we’ve taken our best shot at identifying the inspirations behind the characters in the film. Others are public figures or agents whose true identities have already been revealed, but the film still declines to refer to these characters by their full real names. Screenwriter Mark Boal himself has acknowledged that “ all of the characters in the film are based on real people.” Some of these real people, like the agent who inspired Maya, still work under secret identities, and Boal says that he and director Kathryn Bigelow “went to great lengths” not to blow their cover, including, e.g., not casting people who look like them. Were so many of the manhunt’s heroes really women? Is there really a Muslim guy who works for the CIA? What about the dog? Was there really a dog? While critics and political pundits have been writing about the film’s depiction of torture for weeks, audiences may still emerge with a few questions about the film’s inspirations.
Zero Dark Thirty, after earning five Oscar nominations including Best Picture, finally went wide this past weekend and immediately shot to No.
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