Real Argo Hostage Responds to Big Oscars Win on Facebook

Two days after the political thriller Argo snagged best picture honors at the Oscars, one of the hostages whose experience inspired the film felt the urge to react to the big win on Facebook.

"The substance of what I wrote really just came to me this morning," Mark Lijek (played by Christopher Denham in Argo) told Mashable. "I was excited Argo won best picture."

Argo is loosely based on the hostage crisis during the Iranian Revolution in 1979, when militants held 52 Americans inside the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Argo details the tale of six of them who escaped and hid in the Canadian ambassador's home.

Lijek (pictured in the black tie above) and his wife, Cora, were two of those wh…
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