Get the latest gossip

Tom Hanks shades Vladimir Putin at D-Day memorial

Tom Hanks likened Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler at an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy: ‘Funny how often it comes out of the ego of one human being.'

The Forrest Gump star spoke with CNN Thursday while attending a commemorative event honoring the 80th anniversary of D-Day at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France. Later in his talk with CNN, Hanks reflected on filming Saving Private Ryan, which opens with a harrowing sequence depicting the nightmarish chaos of D-Day in brutal detail. "And hearing it from a number of people [who] said, 'As confusing as that is, multiply that — we did not have the smell of cordite, or burning flesh, or you know, blood on the sand — but we did have some version of whatever you can get out of a motion picture, I think we captured that, to Steven [Spielberg] ’s credit.

Get the Android app