The star of "Saving Private Ryan" called Steven Spielberg to the film The "Worse Experience of his Life"
The actors were submitted to an intense training camp before the shooting begins - and almost stopped.
When he took the 1998 drama on the Second World War Save soldier Ryan ,, Steven Spielberg sought to make a film that completely illustrates the horrors of war. To make this realism, he sent the casting to a training camp managed by a real soldier - and almost released the film in the process. One of the stars of the film even called him "the worst experience of [his] life". Read the continuation for more details on how a group of Hollywood actors almost bange the production of a future multiple -ossar candidate - and how they were convinced to stay.
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Spielberg hired a Vietnam veteran to put the casting to the test.
To help actors prepare for their soldiers' roles, Spielberg has caused retired navy CAPT. Dale dye As a military advisor. The dye approved a rather "Method" approach Play a soldier on the screen, explaining in the 2015 book The strangest but true moments of cinema , "I believe that there is a certain fundamental spirit which is common in men and women who fight for their country, and I think that to understand it fully, the actors who play them need to discover the rigors to which People around the world face. "
In practice, this meant submitting the distribution - which included Tom Hanks ,, Edward Burns ,, Jeremy Davies ,, Diesel wine ,, Adam Goldberg ,, Barry Pepper , And Giovanni Ribisi - at a 10 -day training camp which involved subsisting on rations, sleeping in tents and lugging equipment in the mud over three hours of sleep, according to A 1998 article in the morning call . "It was the worst experience of my life," said Burns about the Pré-Filme challenge.
The actors had a special nickname.
According to an 1998 Weekly entertainment article on Making of the movie , the first thing Dye did when he got hold of the actors was to strip them of their names. Instead, they were collectively called "strings". The exception was Hanks, which obtained the distinction of being called "Turd n ° 1". In addition to intense daily exercises and exercises, they were forced to be called by their names of characters and to punish if they slipped into modern language, throughout the time which turned into icy rain. "The idea was for us to feel to be there," said Diesel, who played private Caparzo, "just as a soldier wanted to be in the war."
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Matt Damon was spared by a training camp - for a specific reason.
The cast did not feel more than the simple fact of being there. They also did not have many affectionate feelings to Matt Damon , who played the main character, they all ordered the rescue, so one of the sons of his family returns from the war. His casting comrades were not, however, jealous of his more important role. Spielberg intentionally designed their resentment by keeping them separated from Damon.
According EW , the director did not want Damon to go through the same experience of lightning liaison by fires as his co-stars, hoping that their discomfort around him would affect their chemistry on the screen.
With some success, it would seem. "They started to host this core of resentment because I was not there," Damon told the magazine. "These guys are lying in front of the mud, and I know, in a foaming bath in America. When I presented myself on the set, a large part of this resentment has just translated directly on the screen."
Some actors almost leave.
Was it all necessary to obtain an effective performance of the distribution? Some actors apparently did not think it and were ready to jump the ship after a few days. According EW , a vote was taken and seven were favorable. The holdout was Hanks. "You can read books and see all the documentaries," said the older actor, "but you are not going to understand how tired and cold and wet, and how heavy this equipment is And how it is actually for a long time to walk three kilometers with all these things that are suspended to you. "After a second vote, the casting would have chosen to stay. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Reflect on experience more than a decade later in an interview Alex Simon , Private actor Melish Goldberg has found value in the training camp. "We were only great thoughts," he said. "Looking back, however, it was an invaluable experience, and one of the most important elements of having made the film, to prove to myself that I could go through the kind of experience that otherwise I would never have submitted to one million years. "
Spielberg and Hanks have again worked with Dye on Bunch of brothers .
While some actors were impatient to leave war horrors on the screen, Hanks and Spielberg would again prove their dedication when they were resettled to create the HBO mini-series acclaimed 2001 Bunch of brothers . And just there with them during the production, Dye, who was again a military consultant and also played the small role of Colonel Robert Sink.
In 2017, Dye launched a campaign to finance his own film on D -Day entitled Not a better place to die . The following year, Screenday announced Hanks would serve as an executive producer And from 2023, IMDB lists the project like " in production , "With the actors Forrest Gump co-star Gary Sinise Obviously attached to the star.
