Tom Hanks, 69, sat down with the hosts of The Rest Is Entertainment podcast and admitted that one scene in Cast Away sends him out of the room.
Hanks said he generally does not re-watch his films once he has seen them the first time, since they “never change.” The exception he singled out is in the 2000 film directed by Robert Zemeckis, who also made Forrest Gump with him.
In the movie, Hanks plays Chuck Noland, a FedEx employee. Before he boards the plane, his girlfriend Kelly gives him a pocket watch with her photograph inside. The plane goes down in the Pacific, and Chuck spends years stranded with a volleyball named Wilson as his only company. LADbible reports that when he is finally rescued and gets home, he learns Kelly has since married.
The scene Hanks cannot take comes after that. Chuck goes to Kelly’s house to give the watch back.
“There is a moment that is painful for me in Cast Away,” Hanks said. “I do this gesture that I just think is false, and is me and is not Chuck.” His fix is simple. “If the movie is on, I will get up and leave the room before that scene comes on.”
Asked whether he knew at the time that he was missing it, he said no. He only realized when he saw the finished film. The crew had been moving on, he said, and he “wasn’t there.”
The film itself did fine. It earned two Oscar nominations, including best actor for Hanks, and he won the best actor Golden Globe for the role and was nominated for a BAFTA. LADbible puts its box office at 429 million, the third biggest movie of its year.
Hanks is currently promoting the fifth Toy Story film, which opened in UK cinemas on Friday, June 19. He has voiced Woody since the first film in 1995. The new one, he told the BBC, takes on the “terror” of children’s screen time, with Woody, Buzz Lightyear and Jessie up against a frog-shaped tablet called Lilypad, voiced by Greta Lee.
“There’s a moment in the movie where we look out on the cityscape and we see that blue glow of a phone in bedrooms and whatnot, and it does strike terror into the heart,” he said.
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