HANKS HAD NO CLUE ABOUT THE DA VINCI CODE

The long anticipated film The Da Vinci Code has arrived. Based on the controversial best-seller by Dan Brown and directed by Ron Howard a religious mystery that has been kept for two thousand years is finally revealed. Tom Hanks stars as Harvard religion symbologist Robert Langdon who sets out to solve the baffling riddle hidden in the works of the famous Renaissance painter Leonardo Da Vinci. Tom says when he first read the book he was as baffled as the next person to figure out the clues.

Sophie’s talented cryptologist played by French actress Audrey Tautou joins forces with Hanks to uncover the secrets of The Da Vinci Code opening May 19.rn

“I can only go by my autobiographical experience with it is that it is a fabulous scavenger hunt about very powerful stuff and that combination is really irresistible. By and large everybody knows some aspect of their religious theology that the book deals with and so that alone kind of makes everybody feel smart almost. We’re familiar with so many of the major players as they exist off screen. In the guise of Professor Langdon and Sophie they get to go off on this great, great treasure hunt. When I read it I was as flummoxed as anybody was on the first pass. I couldn’t figure out what the next clue was. I couldn’t figure out the anagrams or what any of the symbols were. When you go back and read it again the second time you say, ‘how did I miss that?’ Of course it had to be that easy.”