It turns out the role played by Vanessa Kirby in Fallout, that of an information broker called the White Widow, is actually the daughter of another famous Vanessa from Mission: Impossible’s past, that of arms dealer Max, played to perfection in the original film by Vanessa Redgrave.
It turns out that more than just the plot thread connected the two characters, as Kirby said she used Vanessa Redgrave’s performance in the first film to inform her own character in Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
Which made one moment in Mission: Impossible – Fallout a bit surprising.
While the more recent Mission: Impossible films have all had some vague connections to each other, it often seems the earlier movies have been forgotten.