Tom Hanks hilariously flashed the Mona Lisa while filming ‘The Da Vinci Code’

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staring at the masterpiece.“It was my 40th-something birthday. We were shooting in the Louvre at night. I changed my pants in front of the Mona Lisa!” the “Elvis” star told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.“They brought me a birthday cake in the Grand Salon!

Who gets to have that experience? Any cynicism there? Hell, no,” he continued.In “The Da Vinci Code,” Hanks depicted the character of Robert Langdon — an art history professor — in the film adaptation of Dan Brown’s widely-acclaimed 2003 mystery novel.The Ron Howard-directed movie and its two sequels, “Angels & Demons” (released in 2009) and “Inferno” (2016), were not well-received by critics.Hanks even disliked the trilogy, declaring that it “was a commercial enterprise” in the Times interview.“Yeah, those Robert Langdon sequels are hooey,” he lamented. “‘The Da Vinci Code’ was hooey.”However, the “Saving Mr.

Banks” actor described the dramas as “delightful scavenger hunts that are about as accurate to history as the James Bond movies are to espionage.”“I mean, Dan Brown, God bless him, says, ‘Here is a sculpture in a place in Paris!

No, it’s way over there. See how a cross is formed on a map? Well, it’s sort of a cross,'” he said. “But they’re as cynical as a crossword puzzle.