Helena Zengel also has a really funny story about her first audition for News of the World: her mom stood in for Tom Hanks to help her daughter perform the scene. Her mom also really took one for the team, as the moment required the preteen to bite her mom on the hand!

"We did the scene where I bite Tom Hanks' hand. I was pretty nervous, but it was really fun, and cute also, for my mom to do it with me" (via Deadline).

While Zengel did have to audition for the role, director Paul Greengrass knew from the beginning that she was the girl he wanted in the film. Greengrass told Gold Derby that he was set on Zengel from the moment he watched System Crasher. "I thought it was brilliant and Helena was superb in it- with huge range, too. I had a strong sense then, literally, as I watched it. I thought, 'Well, I mean, it's going to have to be her. She's the perfect age. She looks exactly right.'"