Spencer Stone

So when the filmmaker cast Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler as themselves in his new film, “The 15:17 to Paris,” which dramatizes how the three friends foiled a terrorist attack on a France-bound train in 2015, he wouldn't allow the nonprofessionals to take acting lessons. “He said, 'You don't want to do  ...

(CNN) The three friends from the United States traveled in Europe as vacationers . Now the world knows them as heroes. Anthony Sadler, Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos were aboard a high-speed train en route to Paris from Amsterdam on Friday when a gunman opened fire. Along with two others -- a French national ...

Those heroes-turned-actors are Spencer Stone, a former U.S. Air Force Airman, Alek Skarlatos, a former Oregon National Guardsman, and Anthony Sadler, a senior at California State University at the time of the incident. On that August day , the trio was riding on a Thalys train headed towards the French capital when a man ...