ACTING MADE RON HOWARD BETTER DIRECTOR

The Da Vinci Code will make the third time that Ron Howard and Tom Hanks have collaborated on a project together including Apollo 13 and Splash. Tom says Ron…

The Da Vinci Code will make the third time that Ron Howard and Tom Hanks have collaborated on a project together including Apollo 13 and Splash. Tom says Ron’s early acting experience in such films as American Graffiti and being on the other side of the camera has made him a better director.

The love fest between Ron and Tom and their mutual admiration for the next frontier led to their small screen collaboration of HBO’s From The Earth to The Moon.

“I will say that Ron’s willingness in order to listen to what the actor has to say. I mean he will say, ‘what do you think? Does that feel natural to you?’ Other directors they don’t care if it feels natural or not. They want you to do exactly as they say. I think the collaborative spirit that he has with Akiva does translate to us. I think Ron deep down wants to hire actors who are aggressive in pursuing their instincts of what the scene is and then he listens to that, not that there’s wholesale changes. Because he’s been an actor and he knows how bad it can feel when you are doing something that you don’t really have a voice in. By and large movie making is an unnatural feeling process. But if you don’t get to somehow imprint your own instincts, your own take on what the character would be doing in the circumstance it can be a real drag. I think as an actor he was in that circumstance a number of times and he’s also felt that just th