Turner and Hooch: Trailer for 1989 Tom Hanks film
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Tom Hanks has been shipwrecked, battled through World War II landing beaches, battled AIDS and battled modern pirates on the high seas. He’s romanced mermaids and bonded beautifully with a basketball. But one film and one particular co-star somehow left a traumatic scars that he can’t shake decades later. In a new interview to promote his emotional latest film A Man Called Otto he said: “it was 33 years ago, and yet I still have tactile memories of how hard that shot was to get.”
If you were to pick a film that took such a heavy toll on Hanks, it is unlikely anyone would choose Turner and Hooch.
The 1989 film about a police inspector who was unwillingly paired with a giant, somewhat adorable, French mastiff, was a huge box office hit. It took $71million on a $13million budget but, unusually, there was never any significant talk at the time about making a sequel.
Hanks’ latest comments suggest he would not have been happy about revisiting the extremely challenging shoot.
Hanks told Collider this week: “The thing that was exhausting about it was, it was just me and that dog every step of the way. It happened in real-time, and it happened over a number of hours, and my body was beaten to a pulp by the time we got to the end, and it was also full energy the entire time.
“I had to be petrified of this dog at the same time I was commanding that dog. I don’t know why. What year did we make that movie? I’ll tell you, it was 33 years ago, and yet I still have tactile memories of how hard that shot was to get.”
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Hanks added: “The scene where I first get that dog in a collar, in a car, or attached to a car, it was … Well, just go back and look at it. It was the most physical, exhausting, time-consuming thing.
“And because it could only happen in the real world, this is not a moment of CGI to it, there’s not a moment of a stuntman being involved in it.
“It was just me and Beasley, who was the dog who was playing Hooch at the time, and it was steady cams, multiple, multiple versions of it.”
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