Tom Hanks hired a "Baywatch" extra to teach him how to swim. The "Angels and Demons" star took lessons to improve his stroke after discovering he would have to don a pair of tight swimming trunks for his latest film role.
He said: "I hired a Los Angeles lifeguard, a guy who actually had appeared on 'Baywatch,' for God's sake! I thought I knew how to swim. go into the pool, go back and forth. But I quickly learned I didn't know how to swim at all - at least not according to my coach!"