The scope of what easy company in the five o six experience was a bit of a gift for us, because we never had to create a narrative out of whole cloth. One of the big things that we landed upon in the course o doing it always there was always going to be a accompanying documentary that were the men of easy company. We went back and they were all alive. They were all talking. And we had an extraordinary experience making the interviews of the actual men themselves,. oftentimes in their homes, and asking them questions about subjects that they had never spoken of even with their own family.
Tom Hanks, Academy Award®-winning actor, icon, and Band of Brothers executive producer, joins host Roger Bennett to discuss his lasting, intense individual passion for Easy Company’s story; what Band of Brothers set out to accomplish 20 years ago; and its enduring legacy two decades later.
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