That's the actual ferry captain!
During the Q&A after the Writers' Guild screening of "Sully" on Saturday, screenwriter Todd Komarnicki told the audience that's the real captain of the NY Waterways ferryboat that was first on the scene playing himself, and got a huge laugh telling us his name is Vince Lombardi. There's a great interview with him on Youtube, and he seemed every bit as modestly professional as Captain Sullenberger. When the interviewer asked him how he felt getting his last passenger safely aboard, he just said, "I had to get these people to shore. They were cold."
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