Tom Hanks claimed shooting the film was a "tactile experience" for everyone involved during a recent interview with Graham Bensinger. Because his character's group was based on a real-life military unit, he tried to find evidence of its existence during a visit to Omaha Beach. "The movie was shooting the sequences there and I lingered," Hanks said. "Well, I walked the entire length of Omaha Beach, from one end to the next. And just knowing everything that had happened there, I got to the very end and I was wondering if there was going to be any sort of sign of who we were [in the film]" At the end of the beach, Hanks saw an array of memorials dedicated to fallen soldiers. When he finally found a plaque commemorating his unit in the film, Hanks felt like he entered a sacred space. "There's memorials all scattered along and you stop and you read each one, and at the end of it was this plaque on this concrete retaining wall and that was us, we were Charlie Company of the Rangers," Hanks said. "And to see that there, after we had gone through this kind of thing, it was--kinda rocked me. Made the hairs stand up on the back of my head. And walking back down, back to the very famous cemetery there, I just realized I was in a holy place."

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