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When Tom Hanks was with his pants in front of the iconic painting of Mona Lisa while filming The Da Vinci Codedirector Ron Howard Couldn’t help it, but laugh.
Howard, 70, remembered the funny story during a Happy days Reunion event in Megacon in Orlando on Friday 7 February and told the crowd: “All our handy equipment and camera equipment was in the Mona Lisa room” of the Louvre in Paris.
“At one point we were really hurrying, we were behind schedule. And Tom Hanks had no time to go back to his dressing room to change for the next scene, ”Howard explained from the 2006 film, via People. “So I gave him some notes about what the next scene would be and he changed his pants for the Mona Lisa.”
The filmmaker confessed that he could not let the hilarious moment go unnoticed. “I said:” Wait a minute. This is a time that we have to remember, “said Howard, revealing that from all the projects he worked with Hanks – such as Splash And Apollo 13 – This wardrobe change was one of the most bizarre. (The couple worked a total of five projects, including The Da Vinci Code Franchise -follower, Angels and demons And Inferno.)
“We have been under the water with the mermaid, we have been weightless with Apollo 13And now you are trousers without Mona Lisa, “Howard remembered that he told Hanks, 68.
Although the film is serious in tone and subject, Hanks without pants without the famous Art Museum is not the only wild moment they have filmed. (The Mystery Movie focuses on Robert Langdon van Hanks while trying to resolve a murder in the Louvre with instructions hidden in Da Vinci paintings.)
Paul BettanyDie Silas played in the film, told another funny anecdote with Hanks during a appearance of March 2021 The late late show with Stephen Colbert.
“I had to grab him and I had to hit him in his stomach and it is very quiet on the set,” Bettany, 53, recalled. “It is always quieter if a stunt is going on because you are worried that someone is injured. So, everyone listens and I hit him in the stomach and he really left, very, very hard. “
The actor remembered that he was so surprised when he “didn’t know what the form was” and what he then had to do.
“What do you do as the biggest movie star in the world?” Bettany asked and revealed: ‘I looked at him a bit. And he went: ‘What’s wrong with you? You just had me farted! “”
Hanks also remembered the uncomfortable shoot and told his version during an appearance The Graham Norton show in 2019.
‘I was beaten up by Paul Bettany The Da Vinci Code“Hanks shared and noticed:” In film fights everyone treats it as if it was a real fight. “
He explained: ‘Paul came in and I met him, and what had to happen was that he had to knock me down against a desk and then I landed on the ground. When I hit the floor, I farted. ‘