Tom Hanks talks about the first and last time he filmed with Clint Eastwood

“He treats actors like horses”sounds terrible at first. This is how Tom Hanks describes the directing style of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, who had him in front of the camera for the airplane drama Sully.

Hanks tells the story on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, however, to praise the Western veteran. unusual directing style had a special function at the time of cowboy films.

That’s why Clint Eastwood treats his stars like horses on the set of his films

During his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Tom Hanks recalled how unusually calm Clint Eastwood was in starting and ending scenes. Instead of shouting “Action!” or “Cut!”, he calmly asked his actors to start now or meant “Okay, that’s enough now”.

And this is the reason why:

He said when he [die Westernserie] When A Thousand Miles of Dust was filming, there were all these old movie directors who loved their megaphones and attention. […] And All the preparation and the constant ‘Action!’ calls made the horses [ganze wild]. In his unique way he then asked: ‘Is there any way we can do this without the horses running away?’.

Rawhide was a western series that aired on US television from 1959 to 1966. Eastwood played the impetuous cattle driver Rowdy in the first seven seasons and evidently took a lot of lessons from that time with him.

Here is the video of Tom Hanks’ Clint Eastwood story on Jimmy Kimmel:

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