20 Things You Didn’t Know About The Green Mile
7. The Cast Got On Really Well
Hanks is Hanks; but everyone else in the cast got on astonishingly well, considering the length of the shoot.
Hutchison tells the story of Michael Clarke Duncan finding out that he’d been one of the cons on Con Air a couple of years previously. If the Green Mile set was a bed of roses, the Con Air set was a bramble patch: Hutchison had a horrible time on the film. His scenes with John Malkovich were cut, so he had no lines, and in the few scenes where he was on camera, he’d been so determined to distance himself from the film that he tried his best to remain out of shot: turning his shoulder to camera, or bending down.
During week eight of the shoot, Duncan finally found Hutchison in that film and thought it was the funniest thing he’d ever seen:
“Over the course of the week, [Duncan[ manages to tell the entire cast and crew... At one point, his trailer is jammed with the likes of Hanks, Morse, Pepper, DeMunn, and Jeter for a "Doug-Hutchison-Con-Air-Marathon." The entire trailer is rocked with laughter… Nina Pasowitz, our key hair stylist, presents me with a giant, cardboard Con Air collage with the caption "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille" printed in bold letters at the top. The collage is made up of several still frames pulled from the video. They're all me avoiding the camera in one way or another. Even as you read this, I contemplate my revenge on Michael Clarke Duncan.”