Reddington delicately quotes T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. A. Prufrock" saying: "Do I dare to eat a peach?" before picking up a glass of cocktail.
Oded Fehr has also played a Mossad operative on Covert Affairs (2010), and the Mossad Deputy Director on NCIS (2003).
The actor playing Red's (James Spader) chief of security Baz, Baz, also happens to be a former CIA officer and veteran US Marine who founded an NGO which rescues kidnapped children in the sex slave trade.
David Strathairn plays a CIA Director in the series. He also played a CIA Director in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and The Bourne Legacy (2012).