the man who whispered in the actors' ears

This article is taken from Figaro Special Edition “Clint Eastwood, the last of the Giants”.

In 2016, Tom Hanks performed an imitation of Clint Eastwood on the sofa of the “Graham Norton Show”, the British show to which he was invited for the release of Sully. “He treats his actors like horses,” he says, before explaining that Eastwood's experience on the western series Rawhide in the early 1960s taught him how scared horses could be when they heard someone screaming « Action ! ». As concerned today for the serenity of the actors as he was yesterday for that of the horses, he has got into the habit, instead of saying « Action ! », to prevent the camera from turning by a modest « All right, go ahead » at the beginning of the scenes, and to conclude with a « That’s enough of that » at the end.

Beyond Tom Hanks' comic trait, which causes hilarity on the set of the show, there is…