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EW has the first look at Tom Hanks as Captain “Sully” Sullenberger in Clint Eastwood’s “Sully”.
‘Sully’ was the U.S. Airways pilot who made a heroic emergency landing on the Hudson River in 2009.
Hanks’s co-star, Aaron Eckhart (“The Dark Knight”), who plays copilot Jeffrey Skiles, says the Oscar Winner really embodied the role.
“He really embodied him, just physically with his hair, and the mustache,” Eckhart says. “He started holding himself straight like Sully did, and his economy of speech, and all of that sort of stuff that really nailed the precision of Captain Sullenberger. It was really impressive.”
When they filmed on the Hudson in New York City, the scene was very evocative of the day of the actual landing.
“We had all of the actual boats that were used in the rescue on the Hudson, a lot of the same people who were all there,” he says. “It was quite moving to hear them tell their tale and to get the feel of what it was like. It was very cold, and everybody said it was very quiet.”
“Sully” is in theaters September 9.
