When Tom Hanks found with his pants down in front of the iconic painting Mona Lisa during the shooting Da VinciDirector Ron howard I couldn’t help but laugh.
Howard, 70, recalled the ridiculous story during a Happy days The reunification event in Megacon in Orlando on Friday, February 7, telling the crowd, “all our syllable equipment and camera equipment were in Louvre’s Mona Lisa room in Paris.
“At one point, we were really rushing, we were after schedule. And Tom Hanks didn’t have time to return to his dressing room to change for the next scene,” Howard explained for the 2006 film, through People. “So I was giving some notes about what would be the other scene and he was changing his pants in front of Mona Lisa.”
The director confessed that he could not let the funny moment go unnoticed. “I said, ‘Wait a minute. This is a moment to remember,'” Howard said, revealing that of all the projects he has worked with with hanks – as Spray AND Apollo 13 – This change of dresses was one of the strangest. (The pair have worked on five total projects, including Da Vinci extensions of exclusivity, Angels & Demons AND Inferno.)
“We have been under the water with mermaid, we have been weightless with Apollo 13And now you’re without pants with Mona Lisa, ”Howard remembered telling Hanks, 68.
While the film is serious in tones and subjects, hanks going without pants inside the famous art museum is not the only wild moment they had filming. (The film mystery focuses on Hanks’ Robert Langdon as he tries to solve a Louvre assassination with hidden data in the Da Vinci paintings.)
Paul Betanywho played Silas in the film, said a funny anecdot that included hanks during a March 2021 appearance Late show with Stephen Colbert.
“I had to catch it and I had to score it in my stomach and it’s very quiet in the set,” Betany, 53, remembered. “Always is always quieter when a stunt is happening because you worry that someone will get hurt. So, everyone is listening to it, and I punch him in the stomach and he really, really, really loudly high. “
The actor remembered that he was so amazed at the moment he “didn’t know what the form was” and what to do next.
“Do you do when the world’s biggest film star steep?” Betany asked, revealing, “I looked at him. And he went, ‘What is wrong with you? You just made me!'”
Hanks also recalled the hard shoot, showing his version during an appearance at Graham Norton Show In 2019.
“I was ravaged by Paul Betany in Da Vinci“Hanks shared, noticing,” in film fighting, everyone treats it what is a real war. “
He explained, “Paul came in rushing inside and I met him, and what was supposed to happen was that he had to crash me against a table and then I went down to the ground. When I hit the floor, I fart.”