But you can tell that underneath he's a good guy. 'Tommy's gruff on the outside, sweet on the inside. While she'd heard that the actor playing flight-test fighter pilot Hawk Hawkins can be a pistol, she says, she never saw that side of Tommy Lee Jones. They come from a different time.'Įastwood plays the leader of the team of hotshot pilots and scientists pushed aside for outer atmospheric testing when NASA took over. 'Clint, I'm completely in love with,' she says. In Space Cowboys, shot partly at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, she worked with the movie's Team Daedalus _ Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner _ who were edged out of space flight in the '50s by a chimp. With that blabbermouth exchange, she was set to play the woman running the space flight sent to repair a failed Russian satellite before it slammed into Earth at more than 300 mph. 'Ed said, 'Well, Clint, she's a good girl.' Clint said, 'You think so.' Ed said, 'Yep, I do.' '
'They're both men of so few words that more than a five-word sentence is amazing,' she says. She credits 'one of America's greatest actors' with helping her land the role of NASA mission director Sara Holland.Īfter she wrapped Pollock with director-star Ed Harris, he put in a call for her to his buddy Clint Eastwood, then casting the geezernaut action-comedy.
