Tom Hanks Claims Clint Eastwood 'Treats His Actors Like Horses,' and It's 'Intimidating as Hell'

Both Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood are the absolute A-listers of the movie industry and the legends of Hollywood. If you were to search for those, you would find hundreds of stories about both these titans…

But the one that involved them both happened very recently despite Hanks being 66 and Eastwood being 93 now. Back in 2016, the two legends worked together on a movie called Sully.

Based on the real story that happened seven years prior to the movie's release, Sully follows the events of "The Miracle on the Hudson" where pilot Chesley Sullenberger saved 155 people by pulling off the perfect emergency water landing on the fly.

With Clint Eastwood being the director of the biographical drama, Tom Hanks was invited to play the role of Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger himself.

The two did an amazing job as pointed out by multiple critics, and the award-winning movie received a warm reception from the public… But that's not why we're writing about it this time.

As Tom Hanks later revealed, Clint Eastwood treated his actors in a very special way that was giving the actor the creeps all the time as he was working with the director.

"He treats his actors like horses because when he did the 60's series Rawhide, the director would shout 'Action!' and all the horses bolted. So when he's in charge, he says in a really quiet soft voice, 'All right, go ahead,' and instead of shouting 'Cut!' he says 'That's enough of that,'" shared Tom Hanks.

While Clint Eastwood's simply being gentle and quiet when interacting with his actors as he doesn't want to scare them the way old-school megaphones used to scare the horses, it gives off the creepiest vibes.

At least, according to Tom Hanks who admitted that it was "intimidating as hell" and he was often freaked out by the director's quiet and soft manner of speaking.

Source: The Graham Norton Show