Tom Hanks hates mustaches, cries every time he watches Forrest Gump
Here are some nice photos of Tom Hanks from last night’s LA premiere of Captain Phillips, a film that I want to see more and more every time I watch a TV ad for it. It looks really good, right? And what I like is that it doesn’t seem like “A Tom Hanks film where Tom Hanks is Tom Hanks and it’s all about Tom Hanks.” It seems like Tom is the star but the ensemble around him is very strong and everyone is being supported by a very compelling story. Anyway, I’ll totally see it in the theater.
To promote Captain Phillips, Tom did a Reddit AMA, which is like the new thing, I guess. All of these major stars are doing Reddit now. Tom was less Ethan Hawke and more like Madonna, which is to say he was direct and pithy. Madonna’s AMA was hilarious because she had no problems telling anonymous people to shove hydrangeas up their asses, but Hanks is a nice guy so basically his AMA was slightly boring and not all that revealing. You can read the whole thing here and here are some highlights:
Q: Whats your favorite movie you didn’t act in?
Hanks: Recently, Looper. And Das Boot the directors cut.
How many tries did it take to play heart and soul/chopsticks on that huge piano?
That took all afternoon…,
What classic movie would you have loved to have worked on?
2001: A space odyssey
What’s your favorite genre of music?
Give me three guitars, a piano, and a good drummer and I’m done.
Mustache tips. Go.
Shave it off.
Please tell me your favorite piece of trivia from a movie shoot, preferably something we probably didn’t know.
“I had a terrible case of the flu shooting the football scenes in ‘Gump.'”
How is Hooch doing?
Hanks: “All the dogs who played hooch — all four of them — went to dog heaven.”
Do you have the real Wilson from ‘Cast Away’ or was it lost?
Hanks: “I have the old, ratty wilson and sign new ones for charities.”
[In ‘Forrest Gump’], do you ever get emotional about yours or others’ performances, or the script? And I’m not talking about fake crying or anything.
Hanks: “When LT. Dan introduced Forrest to his wife, with his titanium legs, I burst into tears …”
Tom also confirmed that he’s going to do another WWII miniseries for HBO and that they had come to him, asking him for yet another Band of Brothers-type miniseries. I wish he had gotten more questions about Band of Brothers. I wish he had gotten more questions about some his romantic comedies too, but my guess is that there were mostly dudes asking the questions. But whatever – Tom Hanks reaffirms something we already knew: Tom Hanks is a lovely guy who is lovely to fans.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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