Tom Hanks estimated that this hilarious scene was the most difficult of his career

Tom Hanks is an American treasure that has made us laugh and cry in the cinema for over 40 years, and he has addressed fairly difficult roles in his long career. He played Captain John H. Miller in the exhausting epic of the Second World War of Steven Spielberg “Saving Private Ryan” and portrayed a man blocked by himself on an island deserted in the adventure film of Robert Zemeckis “Castaway”, so he took his time to go through difficult moments on the screen. There is a scene from the start of his career, however, that the actor claims was by far the most difficult moment to get into the film.

In an interview with Collider in 2023, when Hanks promoted his drama “A man called Otto”, who features a cat co-star, the actor revealed that the most exhausting scene to film in his entire career was the one who was especially him and a dog. The film was the comedy of 1989 “Turner & Hooch”, where Hanks plays the detective of the right investigator and tense Scott Turner, who is forced to relax a little when he was detained by a French mastiff (Dogue de Bordeaux) named Hooch, who witnessed a murder. “Turner & Hooch” is something of a classic in comedy in the 1980s, and it was even used to help sell Hanks on the idea of ​​expressing Woody in “Toy Story”, but it seems that it was a nightmare to do.

In the interview, Hanks shared that the scene of “Turner & Hooch” where he must try to share the great terrifying dog in (or rather close to) his car was the most difficult thing he ever filmed, saying: “It was the most physical, exhausting and most important. Following:

“It was just me and Beasley, who was the dog who played Hooch at the time, and it was stable cams, several multiple versions. At the same time, I ordered this dog.”

In the scene, it is only Hanks that use two animal posts to navigate the dog, which is supposed to resist completely and perhaps aggressive. While the dog actor seems to have a lot of fun playing rope with the posts and the Hanks, the mastiffs are ridiculously strong and try to fight for a full day of fire beyond the exhaustion. When you add to this, the fact that Hanks must have occurred with his face and voice while physically maneuvering more than 100 pounds of dog, the pure amount of slobber involved, and the sun -outdoor shoot, and it is not surprising that Hanks looks in sweat and died in times when he has actually entered his car and can rest for a moment.

Although canine co-stars can be difficult to work, the director of “Turner & Hooch”, Roger Spottiswoode, said Hanks and dogs had an excellent working relationship. Hooch gets up in serious chaos in the film and completely destroys the apartment of the Turner detective, but there are times when you can see the link between Hanks and the different dogs that played Hooch. Not only that, but I’m going to be honest: if this dog had wanted to launch Hanks in the water while pulling on the stage of the capture post, it could have done so so easily.

“Turner & Hooch” is a big friend of friends (with a completely disappointing end) which only works well because Hanks is so locked up with dogs playing Hooch that the relationship between their characters is real. With his fantastic comedy Kid in-an-adult “Big” in 1988 and “Turner & Hooch” in 1989, Hanks cemented his place as a family comedy star for the ages. It just took a serious training session by fighting on a dog on a quay for everything to happen.