Secrets of The Da Vinci Code
When did Ron Howard tell you that you were the one?
Shortly after that meeting, my agent told me the choice was down to two. That evening, after I'd turned off my cell phone, I suddenly saw I had missed 11 calls in half an hour, all from the same American number! I listened to my messages: I was asked to call Ron Howard directly on his cell phone. When I reached him, he was busy scouting locations at the Louvre. That's when he told me "Okay, it's you.' It was all done in ten days!
How did you find the script compared to the book?
It was very close. When they wrote it, they kept in mind the interest readers had in this story. They treated it with great respect. Nothing was toned down. It was obvious that they took the novel as pure fiction and treated it as such. There are explanatory scenes with Teabing (Ian McKellen). For the rest, they filmed a number of historical scenes, sort of flashbacks -- I don't know if they'll make the final cut -- to illustrate the ideas. There were many re-enactments.