Sean Astin on Memphis Belle
I'll never forget being with David Puttnam and Mathew Modine in Japan on January 15, 1991 promoting Memphis Belle. I had asked David to bring me with him when it came time to publicize the film in Asia. I was sitting on a dais preparing to field questions about making an "American War Movie", when I glanced at my watch and saw that it was 12:00 back home...the UN Deadline had just expired and coalition airplanes were about to begin a massive bombing campaign in the air above Kuwait and Iraq. I remember feeling later that day that my country was at war and I needed to get home. The irony was not lost on me. I think the real value of our film is that it attempts to show, in a realistic way, human faces during a critical moment in the evolution of American Air Supremacy.
