'He was just one of the lads.' Irish movie extras share memories of filming on a Wexford beach with tomhanks as the Hollywood star learned his lines for Saving Private Ryan 📽🎞
On a warm sunny day it is hard to believe that Ballinesker beach in the south-east of Ireland, about two-and-half hour's drive from Dublin, was to all intents and purposes a Hollywood movie set.
The movie by DreamWorks tells the story of the attempt to save the life of Private James Francis Ryan whose three brothers had already died fighting in the war.Ballinesker beach in County Wexford was turned into a World War Two movie in the summer of 1997 "They had pipes underneath the water and sand that had air blowing through simulating live fire," he says,Ballinesker beach is a much more relaxing place for John Fowler these days
"It's the scene about 20 minutes in where Hanks is up at the command post looking for his interpreter."Former FCA member Graham Cadogan shared the silver screen with Tom Hanks He says that after a couple of minutes the movie star pulled up the helmet he had rested on "turned it upside down and started reading his lines from inside his helmet".
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