TOM HANKS: SIR IAN MCKELLEN IS A PLAYHOUSE FOR DA VINCI CODE

Sir Ian McKellen plays another sir in The Da Vinci Code, Sir Leigh Teabing. Tom Hanks says acting opposite McKellan is like being in a gigantic playhouse. "I don't think anybody has more fun acting than Sir Ian McKellan. Our first scene on film was very representative of every day we had in meetings and in rehearsals. There was just this constant delightful probing that went on. He'll say a line, we were at the table and he'd go through a patch of dialogue and he'd say something like, 'well my brain just turned around in on itself there. What was he saying?' He's always looking at it like scanning out, not just the dialogue but the sensibilities behind it. From my experience when he gets...