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reconciliation Starts Here forgiveness starts here too we're doing a real story with real people you

want to get it the way it was I want you to be acting director of the Bureau of Investigation I

will take the job Mr Stone I'm always fascinated with real life stories just on a personal level

because life is almost always so much more bizarre than anything you could write on the

page we're going to end up in the Hudson low sorry say again Cactus as much as a motion

picture can that is trying to encapsulate a real moment that was important to people I

think Mr Eastwood has succeeded I think he's encapsulated a moment that somehow binds us

all together in the best of all possible ways we are either survivors or we Are Witnesses [Music]

go ahead right to do justice to a true life story a filmmaker must have imagination and integrity

Clint Eastwood has met that challenge numerous times this is the captain brace for impact the

story of The Miracle on the Hudson made Front Page News around the world but Eastwood went beyond the

headlines to tell a side of the sull solenberger story few people knew I was reading some other

things at the time and every night the girls in my office would say have you read this thing on

Su about the third time I thought well there must be some reason so I picked it up and read it and

liked it right away when Clint wanted to do this it was kind of a dream come true for us because

this is such a human story and a story about Hope and about extraordinary things happening

to Ordinary People and that's the kind of story he tells the best I don't feel like a hero I'm just

a man who was doing his job Sul is the real deal and Clint is the real deal so these two guys met

and within 5 minutes they got along like like a house on fire Clint read the script on a Monday

and then a week and a half after that he was at our house Clint told us that it was important to

him that he come to our house and meet us before he made any casting decisions you know I can see

why he became sort of an iconic figure cuz he's I mean he's like Gary Cooper or somebody he just

walking in off the room you kind of go oh yeah after meeting Sully I think he felt like Sully

has that kind of Everyman quality you know he's just a normal really lovely man and I think it

really reminded Clint of Jimmy Stewart who Clint knew of course and Clint said who's today's Jimmy

Stewart and of course it was Tom Hanks when you're kind of making a list in your mind of possible

people who could play it Tom was one of the first people we thought about we didn't think he'd be

available at that time I think he was planning on taking a little time off for about 6 years

my head was down and I was plowing through a work schedule which really meant mentally spiritually

physically I was beat but now look I'm a selfish actor I'm a competitive actor and the screenplay

that Todd wrote plays I think just like the movie did I I think I read it in probably 17 minutes he

got five pages in and said well this isn't what I expected and then he got 20 pages in and he's like

wow I even had to call my wife she say so how was it and I and I said uh it's so great and she said

oh well then I guess you're going to have you're just going to have to go off and do it then aren't

you I've delivered a million passengers over 40 years in the air but in the end I'm going to be

judged on 208 seconds good afternoon suly was not interested in him being made into more of

a obvious hero he wanted it to be the authentic procedure and you understood after 10 minutes with

the guy of course he pulled us off no one else could have no one warned us no one said you were

going to lose both engines at a lower altitude than any jet in history but be cool just make a

left turn for LaGuardia like you're going back to pick up the milk this was dual engine loss at 2800

ft followed by an immediate water landing with 155 Souls on board no one has ever trained for

an incident like that no one if you're a fireman if you're a you're a soldier if you're an aviator

heroism is going to be expected of you at any time mounting that burden on yourself is something that

Heroes do as the captain of that ship his heroic act I think was to follow his instincts as opposed

to the steps in the book I had to rely on my experience of managing the altitude and speed

of thousands of flights over four decades you're saying you didn't do any I eyeballed his instincts

kicked in and made a landing that actually I don't believe it has ever been made before

oh that's not supposed to happen the plant's not supposed to come out of the sky and you're

not supposed to be able to make a landing like that I went back and looked at all of

the other YouTube videos of these kind of like Aviation disasters and planes cartwheel where

that happens and they fall apart you know on impact and they don't come in and they're not

able to make those Landings they were 155 people on the pier in a circumstance where there could

have been 82 body bags and then a bunch of other bodies that disappeared we're never seen again

that didn't happen you put it on the shoulders of uh literally you know one guy got a count

155 155 it's official 155 155 he will never say

that he's a hero but that is that that was one heroic thing that he

did it wasn't just me it was all of us it is Jeff and Donna and Sheila and darene and

all of the passengers their rescue workers Air Traffic Control Fury booat Crews and the scuba

cops we all did it we survived in his commitment to telling the story as truthfully as possible

Eastwood hired some of the real life Heroes who had lived it to play themselves on

screen we ended up using the real fery Captain that was the first fery to arrive he be coming

poli1 the people were actually in the raft and looking up and you know they were all actors so

they were acting scared and wet and cold and was just like that day almost just like it

when we're in New York we had the opportunity to use the real rescue divers it was really a

thrill to have the two real guys jumping out of the helicopter reenacting what they did on

the day this is the job that kind of defines your career I became a New York City Cop to

help people and this was the opportunity to have that done and have it done on such a great event

and all the guys on the tugs they remembered everything down to a tea they knew what line

they were coming across they knew what happened it's astounding how many people jumped into The

Fray and helped save all those [Music] people all those attentions to detail have been really

important for Clint we don't deviate very much from the real look and the real feeling I you

to know I did the best I could Clint had a very clear vision for how to tell this story he said

I just get my idea that I want to do something and I just will it to happen and as I've been

on the set for the first time on a shoot it's obvious to me that what really happens

is he wills it and then hundred or more people create it and make it happen under his [Music]

Direction never one to shy away from controversy Eastwood added to his list of true stories a

film about one of the most powerful figures in American history Jay Edgar Hoover both

Clinton and I picked up this script and we're fascinated first of all with with J Edgar Hoover

he's been this very mysterious iconic figure in American history for such a long period of

time to see somebody tackle his life story was incredible this story that Clint tells is told

all from the internal point of view of Hoover psyche and in such an emotionally moving way

concentrating on really the Clyde Tolson relationship and I love you edar [Music]

it's a love story Clyde Telson and Hoover became fast friends they DED together every day and

Hoover never married and neither did tulson people kind of assumed that they were a couple

take my word for it Mr hoer all the admiration in the world can't F the spot where love goes in

a lot of ways this story is a story of a man that never got to have that part of Humanity

that kind of love that kind of relationship do you remember what happened to Daffy after the

school custodian discovered him in a hoop skirt and flower Bonnet yes Mother he he shot himself 6

weeks after that's right and I thank God every day that my own Sons don't suffer from his condition

Edgar I'd rather have a dead son than a daffodil for son

if you tell a kid an incredibly promising kid that he will not and should not ever have access

to love in his life what fills that hole and for him I think it was admiration and what was

so tragic is that he filled it with political admiration and there's nothing more fleeting in

this country than political admiration and so when he started to lose it he held on to it so strong

he held on to it like it was his lover do I kill everything that I love there are times when you're

repulsed by this man but there are times where you kind of fall in love with him too and you

feel for him I think it's a story ultimately of how absolute power corrupts absolutely sometimes

you need to bend the rules a little in order to keep your country safe right the more power he

gains the more paranoid and strange and diabolical he becomes and I think Clint was really intrigued

with that he's part good guy part bad guy the audiences will take away what they want to take

away from it For Better or For Worse no true story of courage and perseverance can match that of the

man who endured 27 years of imprisonment to lift South Africa out of a parthe and into the modern

era there's no one on our planet of the 7 billion of us who has

had more of a positive influence on more people than Nela Mandela

Morgan and I thought the best thing to do was to go in person and and ask meda's blessing to tell

this story he's been very welcoming very you know oh that's Morgan have him come over no no no I'm

happy the strangest thing about Meda or anybody like Meda is okay you're here in the presence

of greatness what do you say so so uh how about those Yankees where you going to go after that

sit and hope he has something to say to you and of course mediva does what I did tell him however

was that uh I was honored that he had mentioned me to play him in order to build our nation we

must all exceed our own expectations people you to say how do you feel about playing Mandela I mean

uh are you concerned are you worried I would say a little bit I have to get the voice I have to

get the Rhythm I have to get the accent this country is hungry for greatness Morgan has the

same stature and same sort of charismatic nature so it works it works well for us it's the the way

he walks I think that makes me to go oh by the way that's Mor so he I think he has mustered his work

so much that with without even thinking anything you're just like that's the man I live the life

every day of seeing Mr Mandela it is really the closest ever they look alike they sound alike

now they walk alike and I actually had to tell him the other day now stop speaking like medo

because you know it's scary it's good that Mor came here because otherwise I would not have seen

you you know if you have the right person for the role as Morgan is clearly the right person to play

Mandela there's an ease with which everything happens if if everyone's in the job that they

should be in can we see the president St yes of course you've done it up just the way it

was part of his greatness I think comes from the fact that he was forced to sit still for 27 years

and that was in his presence when he said 27 years in prison gives you a lot of time to think we

actually were concerned that the cell was too small to shoot in so we built one on stage and

uh Clint got in there with the camera and he said no this will work and he wanted to do it

where it really happened so we shot it all right there and never used to the set that

we built it's moving to be in that tiny cell and and think about having to spend so many years of

your life in such a small space it's profound as just no other way to describe it I thank

whatever God's may be for my uncomforable soul I think this is a really good use of our time

given everything that's happening in the world I mean it's a it's it's a good time to retell

this and remind all all of us that this happened and a reminder that we're all in this together

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