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Can you talk about working with Ron Howard on The Da Vinci Code?

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Can you talk about working with Ron Howard on The Da Vinci Code?

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MCKELLEN: Well, you know him better than I do. You’ve been watching him for years and he’s like that. He’s absolutely like that. He’s enthusiastic as a kid about it all. He’s nervous. He can’t quite believe, I think, his luck that he’s allowed to play with the grownups. I get that feeling from him quite strongly and he is super efficient. So when he tells you, when he first talks to you and says, ‘I want you to film on this day and you will end on that day.’ That’s the way that it works out which is brilliant. And having been an actor himself of course he’s very sympathetic to the problems of acting and can often see things, I think, that another director wouldn’t because he can see what’s going on. He and Tom [Hanks] got on extremely well and that was important. You felt that they were sort of twin leaders of the enterprise and then Akiva Goldsman – very unusual being there the whole time. He’s the screenplay writer. He and Ron you felt at times were directing it together. I mean, the

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