He only had one scene in Spielberg’s classic, but he had a hard time filming it

Although Tom Hanks, along with the incredible talent of Steven Spielberg and his production team, got all the attention, the truth is that in Saving Private Ryan There were many other well-known actors in more or less supporting roles. It was here where Matt Damon began to earn the legend of the man on whom the United States had spent the most money to rescue (in reference to his subsequent time in Interstellar and Mars), and this was also one of Vin Diesel’s first appearances on the big screen… and Nathan Fillion.

We are left with the latter, who is very much on everyone’s lips lately thanks to the role of Green Lantern, Guy Gardner, that James Gunn wanted to give him in the DCU, which launched this past summer with the premiere of Superman. The Canadian actor made a name for himself in the science fiction genre 25 years ago with the release of the battered Firefly, by the controversial Joss Whedon, and became a big star on the small screen with Castle, a police procedural where he did not make a good couple with his co-star. But Before all that, he played a soldier deployed in Normandy.

In case you have forgotten something about the feature film, in Saving Private Ryan we have Hanks leading an elite squad with the mission of find James Francis Ryan (Damon)who is somewhere behind enemy lines, to bring him home after his three brothers are presumed dead. During their trip, they stop in a small town where they meet the character played by Fillion, who is also called James and, in fact, also has the last name Ryan. The problem? It’s not James Francis Ryan, but James Frederick Ryanbut that doesn’t stop them from giving him the bad news: all your brothers are dead. As you can imagine, his reaction was desolation.

A talk with the director managed to change everything

But recording all this was not easy for an actor eager to leave a good impression on a director like Steven Spielberg, in what was his first major film project.

“All I had to do was cry. That’s all I did in that soap opera. I could cry at any moment. But I was so tense, so nervous. Steven Spielberg was very encouraging. He told me: ‘You’re acting it out, but what you’re feeling isn’t coming out.’ Then he told everyone to take five minutes, and he took me for a ride, sat me behind an Army truck, and we started talking. It gave me all these things to think about, and suddenly I started crying on the spot. He said, ‘You look smart.’ And I did, because he took the time to help me. I met Steven Spielberg years later. He told me: ‘Hey! Do you remember me? (Laughs) Yes, sir, I remember.'” – Via Empire

In addition to the already mentioned Tom Hanks, Matt Damon and Nathan Fillion, Saving Private Ryan featured in its cast Edward Burns as Lieutenant Richard Reiben, Tom Sizemore as Sergeant Michael Horvath, Barry Pepper as sniper Daniel Jackson, Giovanni Ribisi as Sanitary Sergeant Wade, Adam Goldberg as Private Caparzo, Vin Diesel as Private “D’Annunzio”, Jeremy Davies as Corporal Timothy Upham, and Dennis Farina in the role of Colonel Anderson. Actors such as Paul Giamatti also appear in supporting roles, Bryan Cranston (sí, sale)including Ted Danson.

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