“Now you have to run the train!” : Tom Hanks turned this actor in front of one of the best series shooting in history

In the early 2000s, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks met after, Savil Ryan (1998) should be kept for another World War II project: HBO Arms’s mini-serials, which is treated as one of the best in television history. The show follows the trip of a group of American soldiers from their training in 1942, before the release of Nazi Germany in 1945, including their parachute in Normandy on June 6, 1944.

Among the many important elements of the series, many have spoken about his excellent casting, including a relatively famous talent at the time Scott, Tom Hardy or David Schwimer. However, despite such a variety of casting, one of the most interesting stories of the series behind the series comes from an actor that has not appeared in the feature film.

The distribution should include Conor Ratliff, a 24 -year -old player who was new from the theater school, ready to name himself in the industry. He was chosen for a small role: he had to play a soldier Zielinsky, who only appeared in that episode in the director Tom Hanks (“Crossroads”, 1X05), a role that will eventually interpret Adam Sims. Thus, he conducted a test and called several calls to the casting directors. However, a few days before the filming began, the young actor received an alarming message from his agent: “You have to go to London now! Tom Hanks saw you listening to you and has doubts. He thinks your eyes are dead”Said the latter.

Conor Ratlif Then went to London for a disaster meeting Tom HanksPlay his scene in front of him and the latter thanked him for his coming. And then the casting director announced that he would not play in the series: one of the worst moments of his life, the actor describes. This refusal to refuse to do so for some time. After everything has changed and we have seen it in a few series, orange is a new black or fabulous mme maisel. He also recently played in Mean Girls, despite Lolita, and also found success in improvisation comedy, while in the launch of Podkast’s “Dead Eyes” … in which … Tom Hanks It appeared!

Tom Hanks’s response

22 years later, Conor Ratlif Really had the possibility of confrontation Tom Hanks As for the liberation of the series. Thus, the director helped to complete the loop with Ratlif with “Dead Eyes”, which allowed him to directly express grief for the person who many consider one of the most beautiful boys in Hollywood. Although Hanks argued that he did not remember the moment he would not delay the apology, the qualification of Ratlif’s memory. “History with glaze blood“

“” “Let me first take responsibility for doing so. It was undoubtedly the director’s action and I was“Said Hank Ratliff, who continued to explain that it was.”One of the very, very sophisticated decisions that guides the story in the direction“

After the launch of his podkast in 2020, Ratliff questioned many actors, otherwise denied Brothers Like Seth Rogen, Zac Bref and Adam Scott Directors Damon Lindeloff and Ryan Johnson. He talked to Hanks’ son, Colin Hanks, and was through this son that his father heard about Podkast.

“” “I was disappointed. I was … in fact, I was cold. My heartbeat is higher and I said, I did it … what did I do? What did I do?“Added Tom Hanks. “” “In the altar, what was the session of this casting in the arms of the arms … I’m sure I said, “I don’t know the guy, this guy has dead eyes.” I could say, “She has very blonde hair, she’s too big and I can’t be a greater assistant than Captain Winter.” I could say, ‘He’s very small and very skinny … I could say any of them, and they would be right, and they would be an opinion.»

But for the Tom HanksThis comment should never reach the interested young man’s ears: “Anyone who has told you what has been said, in the altar of this session, with such authenticity, must break on the knee because it is … it is not authorized. Not intended here. This is unofficial.»

Ratliff proved: Comment should not play. The actress gave this mistake to the chaos of the cinema and finally the story was resolved Tom Hanks Who looked at the old portrait of the actor and claimed: “These are not dead eyes. Now I just can say this black and white 8×10.“The loop is actually over.

The brothers should still see Max in the arms.