Rene Russo apparently took the dialogue into her own hands while filming Major League .

The beloved actor scored a home run with the 1989 baseball film, where she starred opposite Charlie Sheen and essentially landed her breakout role. While she was a talented team player during production, director David S. Ward claims Russo needed a little help.

The only problem we had with her was, shes Italian, he said on Wednesdays episode of the Hollywood Gold podcast . And when she gets going, theres a lot of the hands, a lot of the talking with the hands, you know? And they would be flying across her face.

I said, Rene, youve got to keep your hands down, he added.

Russo told Variety in 2021 that shes kind of a street girl who can get angry really fast, and called this the Italian side of her personality. And this week, Ward recalled that side emerging through Russos hands during her very first scene in Major League.

Finally what I did is, I tied them down, he said on Hollywood Gold. I tied them down for the first take, and she said, OK, I think I got it. And then I untied them and she was fine. Every once in a while, Id have to remind her again: Hands in the frame, across your face.

A representative for Russo did not immediately respond to HuffPosts request for comment.