Hanks called it “the most truly scary, intense, real-life scene” of his career.
Tom Hanksis opening up about a terrifying experience from his storied acting career.
While shooting the 2013 biographical dramaCaptain Phillips, which tells the story of the 2009 siege of the DanishU.S.
Tom Hanks in ‘Captain Phillips’.Columbia Pictures
“They are slapping us.
They are hitting us.
They are pushing us down, and they’re holding real guns in our faces, screaming at us.
Tom Hanks and Faysal Ahmed in ‘Captain Phillips’.Jasin Boland/Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
It was honestly we are all bug-eyed with some form of terror.
Even though we know it’s a movie, that is removed because guess what?
we all went there.”
To make matters worse?
We don’t know who they are.
We have never met them, and they are firing automatic blanks, you know, machine guns.
We hear all this stuff that’s going on.
We don’t see anything until the camera outside the bridge of the Maersk Alabama."
Captain Phillipsplays out like an anatomy of the real-life siege, and it is indeed harrowing.
But even recreating the events has had a lasting effect on Hanks.
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And we are right there because the camera’s on us, and it’s working us.
What I’d like to do is just take it back and come back in.'"
“He just tried to kill you!”
O’Brien shouted in disbelief.
“Once we got that done, we were just guys making a movie,” Hanks explained.
“It was fantastic.
They did so for financial gain,” an attorney for the litigantssaidat the time.
The suit was eventuallysettledin 2017.
