I got to see your movie actually this morning.
And it was fantastic. Thank you.
It was great. Thank you.
And we will talk about that,
but I'm curious about something.
Tom Hanks has described you, as a director,
as being very excitable.
When you get, when you're describing an action scene
and what you want the actor to do.
Oh, the action scenes. Yeah, yeah.
That you get really wound up.
Now, do you think that's fair of Tom to say that?
Or do you think that's a little unfair?
Well, you know. What do you think?
Look.
He, he likes to do these bits, you know,
where he kind of does a version of me.
Like we were, he was talking about, oh
this movie that we just finished shooting.
One of the Dan Brown, you know,
Yeah.
Robert Langdon mysteries.
And in it, there's a drone, that's trying to find him.
And of course the drone wasn't really there
because you couldn't get the mechanics of that.
So, you know, Tom's having to do his angle.
And yeah I start trying to talk him through the action.
And I go, you know, there there's a drone and it's coming,
but he described it like, okay it's a drone.
(audience laughing)
It's hovering. It's hovering.
It's gone. It's back.
And, so.
So you feel he's exaggerating.
I think, I think ...
He's exaggerating.
In fact, I don't even think that represents me at all.
But then I find myself directing him and I started doing
you know, his version of me directing him.
(audience laughing)
So now it's kind of ingrained.
So I was kind of complaining about it
on this press junket, you know Yeah.
That we're doing with...
Cause Chris Hemsworth is the star
of In the Heart of the Sea.
And there's a lot of great action
A lot of great action in this, in this movie.
Yeah.
I was complaining about it and he said, no
that's true 'cause you did it with me.
You said, There's a whale!
He's gonna dock!
He's got teeth.
(audience laughing)
All right.
So I'm finding out the action.
Sounds like Rick Taylor
I know.
There's a whale!
(laughing)
There's, I guess I
You know, I'm trying to support the actor.
Yeah.
Sure.
You're doing your part.
To create this, this realism.
You know what's interesting is
that directors on a big film
like this, for example, where there's so much involved.
There's incredible special effects, and so many actors,
and so much going on.
Directors famously can be short tempered because
they have a lot to worry about.
You don't seem like that kinda guy.
You seem like a guy who doesn't get angry.
Or is there anything on the set that does get you angry?
I don't know, I'm not really a yeller.
But you know, if people aren't prepared or something
you know if they're, if they're, if they're late.
If they disrespect the process and and a pattern is brewing,
you know, I don't, I don't
you know, but I don't, I don't, I don't yell at them.
What do you, what do you do if you're not yelling?
How does Ron Howard as a director show his displeasure.
Well they see they, you know,
they just see that I'm upset.
You know, they kind of they'll, they'll just
you'll just see, you know, a diff a different look.
you know, and then they, and then that seems to
be almost enough.
Can I see, is it okay if we see the Ron Howard...
Wouldn't you like to see what Ron Howard looks like when
he's really upset? (audience cheering)
I would. This is ...
Let's get a nice shot of this.
As I recall you made my daughter Bryce cry on on demand
and now you want me to make looks okay.
Yes, that's true.
I'm running a circus here.
(laughing)
We are you're willing participants.
We hold up a hoop, you jump through.
I don't know, there's not too much to it.
It's not as good as Bryce's crying,
but it's kind of like. (sighing)
You just look tired.
(laughing)
You look tired and like the sun's too bright.
That's all
That's enough.
People just think they get that man a sun hat.
That's all they're thinking in that moment.
Yeah, you did, you know
You mentioned your daughter was here,
Bryce, an incredible actress.
And she was here and it was this moment
that so many people have talked to me about.
She said she could cry and demand.
So I asked her to do it and she did it here on the show.
We did like a mini scene and it was really incredible.
And I was like, I thought, that's fantastic.
Did you know that she could do that?
Well, I, no, not to that degree.
But, but I mean, but she's a great actress and she's very
emotional and, and she can cry.
I mean, I talked to her about it and she said, well
I knew I could do it.
She just had that confidence.
In her Broadway debut she had,
Cheryl and I were there.
It was a big moment in the family.
There. She was, she had a good scene.
And she had to, she had to cry.
And our seats were close enough that in the near the end
of the first act she's crying.
And I'm looking at it's real tears here on Broadway.
Wow. That's really something.
I look over at Cheryl, and Cheryl's kind of like this.
And I, I thought, why isn't, she's emotionally involved
in this?
So at intermission, I said, wasn't that amazing?
You didn't seem that knocked out by that.
I was just blown away.
And she said, are you kidding me?
She pulled that every day of her life when she was 17.
(audience laughing)