Tom Hanks Recalls “Scary, Intense” Scene In “Captain Phillips” | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

you worked with all these directors uh I. mean Spielberg more than once more than. once but uh you've worked with all these. iconic directors and and and and Ron. Howard and zamus and I mean the list. goes on and on and on and Norah Efron. Nora yeah work with her three times. you've gotten to a point where is it. possible for you Tom Hanks to be. intimidated by an act by a director on. the setter but is that going to happen. now the there the first three days are. three days of Terror because it's a.

combination of everybody else who is. there um uh and also. just U on the third day you realize no. matter what the movie is you realize I. should have said no. uh there just should have been something. wrong with it D I don't. know cuz here we are here we are uh the. intimidate I will look I I've done this. long enough so I I now am aware that I. intimidate other people you know cu you.

know cuz you show up and then somebody. said okay okay ready I'll tell you this. story okay here's a show business story. we are shooting perhaps the most scary. intense truly scary intense real life. scene uh in Captain Phillips we are. honestly we're overweight old. middle-aged. guys uh who are going to be taken over. by these Pirates and we have never met. the guys who play the Pirates we don't. know who they are all we know is that. they are coming cuz the way Paul. Greengrass shot that he had cameras on.

us and cameras on the four guys barab. and and uh uh Abdul and Big B little B. all the guys um and we have never met. them and they are firing automatic. blanks You Know M machine guns we hear. all this stuff that's going on and the. don't we don't see anything until the. camera outside the bridge of the of the. uh uh marisk Alabama we see the camera. backing up uh with the guys pulling the.

cable and then four of the scariest. human beings I have ever met come in and. they are screaming at us they are. slapping us they are hitting us they are. pushing it down and they're holding. they're real guns you know they're. holding them in our faces screaming at. us and it was honestly we are all bugee. eyed with some form of Terror even. though we know it's a movie that is. removed because guess what we all went.

there all right so we're all there this. initial the initial scene went on for. about 20 minutes cuz Bob uh uh Paul does. this thing where he has a secondary and. third cameras that don't start shooting. until later on so film is always rolling. and then one camera will go quickly. reload and then join back in the scene. so this is this is going you got to stay. in that space we are right there because. the camera's on us and and it's working. us so four of the skinniest scariest. looking guys their eyes were all. bloodshot they all had this teeth they.

were all built like wires they had. muscles like rope they're dressed in. rags and they're holding AK-47s on us. and they're screaming at us and it went. on and on and on and on and on and on. and on and on unre relatively. unrehearsed when it was finally done. Paul says all right all right okay all. right all right that went well that went. well why don't we uh and. well WR like. this and uh we said why don't if we can.

what I'd like to do is just take it back. and come back in I said okay yeah all. right okay good and then uh one of the. one of the one of the actors mahat was. his name mahat says. uh I can't believe I'm working with. Forest. Gump he just tried to kill. you so countenance Right comes along.

with with the whole bit and you know. once we got that done we were just guys. making a we were just guys making a. movie it was fantastic but but that's an. example of you know there was a moment. where you have to do all this suspension. of the reality of of you know what it is. and all you can do is all you can do is. go there the only thing I have that is. some that I can relate to that's a. little similar is for years occasionally. we would have a band on like slip knot. for the first time gu you know with.

skulls you know just and they would come. out or a band would come out and they. were um literally like blood capsules. out of the mouth and Fierce and the song. is just like you. know and then you'd you know I'd come. out and I'd say we'll take a break uh. Death kill murder baby we'll take a. break we'll be right back and I would. always be a little intimidated cuz I'm. in a suit yeah I'm the late night host.

I'm the whatever the the game show host. and I'm just saying okay we'll take a. break and these are the guys that are. from Manchester oh yeah. whatever we'll take a break we right. back and the person would always go just. lovely meeting you I really. enjoy and just got such a nice. sensibility and you're like slip I can't. handle that I can't handle the psychic. break this is why so many of us go Stark. r nuts yeah because that surrealistic.

divide between why you are there and. what are you creating begins be it's too. malleable after a while and yet it. starts and it finishes within within the. wink of an eye you know it's that it's. that type of thing where the massacre is. over and um and. cut and all the dead guys start getting. up and moving around you know and you. move on and you and you get the other. shot it it it's I wish we could just.

keep it all secret like the Coca colola. formula I wish we didn't have to. remember but I I I I don't I don't watch. movies that I'm in because they haven't. changed since I saw them so I know how. they I know how they end uh right and. but every now and again like you're. blowing through the Grid or something. like that and a minute comes on or a. scene comes on and what I remember is. what happened just before we shot that. scene that's all that I that's all I can.

recall I look at it I don't remember. doing the scene per se but I said oh it. was cloudy that day and uh you know I I. I dropped a script in a in a mud puddle. and then that's all then I had some fla. yeah and then it was time to yeah what. do we have oh you know what uh somebody. made Ruben sandwiches that day that was. that was really. great I remember craft service made. Ruben sandwiches that day yeah and I. think it was Annie in the accountant. Department's birthday and so we all sang. Happy Birthday in the catering table.

there you go there you go that was that. day.