1
00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,040
(piano note)

2
00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000
Downloaded from
YTS.MX

3
00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:06,520
- So much of the time it seems that...

4
00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:07,920
it seems that my task in a movie

5
00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000
Official YIFY movies site:
YTS.MX

6
00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,840
is to do something differently, you know,

7
00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:13,640
to walk through a door in
some sort of interesting fashion.

8
00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:17,480
The passion for art can take an actor to places

9
00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,640
they never thought possible.

10
00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,960
- And I'm trapped in this body
and I'm stuck with this face.

11
00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:24,720
And so I guess that

12
00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:27,798
can kinda be childish at some times, but...

13
00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:31,638
The world has seen the rise of many talented artists,

14
00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:34,920
many of whom taking the world by storm,

15
00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,480
donning a plethora of roles.

16
00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,000
There is one gentle soul that most will know,

17
00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:46,960
one whose acting range has
exceeded global expectations

18
00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,398
time and time again.

19
00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:53,560
From award-winning performances
to personal achievements-

20
00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,120
the man that wanders all around the world.

21
00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,800
He goes by many names, "America's Father,"

22
00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:03,520
"Hollywood's Nice Guy,"

23
00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,200
"The Everyman."

24
00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:10,960
(music) (crowd chatter)

25
00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,040
But we all know him as Tom Hanks.

26
00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,560
(typewriter clicks)

27
00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,200
(piano music) (wind blowing)

28
00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:37,638
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks,

29
00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:41,440
born 9th of July in Concord, California.

30
00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,080
His mother, Janet Marylyn Frager

31
00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,238
was from a Portuguese family whilst his father,

32
00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,960
Amos Mefford Hanks, had English heritage.

33
00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,678
The climate of his upbringing was not gentle.

34
00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:57,520
Though Tom's parents were never cruel,

35
00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:58,800
his father, Amos,

36
00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:02,838
displayed a hardened
demeanor throughout his years.

37
00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:04,000
As a child,

38
00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,518
Amos had witnessed the murder of his own father,

39
00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,680
Ernest Buel Hanks, on his family farm.

40
00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:16,120
Such a horrific incident
would take a toll on his life,

41
00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,998
clouding his judgment of
the world, and, unfortunately,

42
00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:24,080
resulted in a reserved, cold outlook:

43
00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:28,240
one without optimism or appreciation of the arts,

44
00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:29,718
and, subsequently,

45
00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,160
a lack of attention to his offspring.

46
00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,080
In 1960, Tom's parents divorced.

47
00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:38,520
His eldest siblings,

48
00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,078
Sandra and Larry joined him with his father.

49
00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,160
Whilst his youngest brother, Jim,

50
00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,278
remained with his mother in California.

51
00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:52,240
Tom was an exceptionally withdrawn and shy child

52
00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:56,320
moving from home to home
due to his father's working life.

53
00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:58,878
By the age of 10,

54
00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:03,920
Tom and his siblings had
lived in 10 different households.

55
00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,160
- My... my family situation

56
00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,560
and what my dad did for a living, yeah,

57
00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:12,080
we moved around quite a bit.

58
00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:13,400
Well with that... I mean I...

59
00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,438
I noticed a lot of actors, for instance,

60
00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,640
a lot of them came from military families
where they had to do the same thing.

61
00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:21,918
I mean you would think...

62
00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,278
that that wouldn't give you
stability, but in a way it does

63
00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,678
In an odd sort of way, it does
give you a center doesn't it?

64
00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:28,838
- Well, I think that what it gave me, well, you know,

65
00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,120
my brothers and sisters would
have something else to say

66
00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,198
but it gave me a small bag of needs.

67
00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:37,400
I think I could land in a brand new circumstance

68
00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:41,318
social circumstances, brand new
school, brand new house, brand new place,

69
00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,998
brand new city, brand new group of people around me-

70
00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,760
and be pretty confident that... that I was all right.

71
00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,678
You know, and that is, you know,

72
00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:51,040
excellent training for an actor.

73
00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:52,878
There was an air of loneliness

74
00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:56,758
as Tom would feel little
emotional support from his parents.

75
00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:02,640
In 1965, Amos would marry Tom's stepmother.

76
00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:07,000
Frances Wong, a native of San
Francisco with Chinese descent.

77
00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:12,760
Tom attended Brete Harte Middle School.

78
00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,078
He was known to be quite unpopular,

79
00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:17,478
quoting himself as a geek

80
00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,880
and terribly, painfully shy at the time.

81
00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:24,398
Though living an uncomfortable life,

82
00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,918
Tom ensured to remain a responsible student,

83
00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:30,798
rarely getting into trouble

84
00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:33,600
and keeping himself closed off.

85
00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,358
Did it take you a long time
to get confidence in yourself?

86
00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:38,880
- No, I think that I...

87
00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,118
for some reason I had it at a pretty early age.

88
00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:43,878
I remember being able to go into a school

89
00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,278
and not be really intimidated
by anything that went on there

90
00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:48,878
until some guy slugged me in the head.

91
00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:50,800
Then... then I'd be intimidated by something.

92
00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:53,040
I remember reading something about you once

93
00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:54,398
that you were like... a class...

94
00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,520
you went through a phase where you were a class cut-up

95
00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,720
Oh, I think all my life

96
00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,838
I've been some form of the class cut-up, yeah.

97
00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:02,520
Yeah, I was that in high school.

98
00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,240
But I never... I never pushed authority.

99
00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:06,400
I never got in trouble.

100
00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:08,198
I'd always played within the rules.

101
00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,400
And if I needed to get outside of the rules,

102
00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,080
I would only do it with the teachers who would let me.

103
00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,558
So I was never a... I was never a delinquent.

104
00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,040
His mother adopted Catholicism,

105
00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:19,238
though for a period of time,

106
00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:21,878
Tom would find his own religious view

107
00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,240
with an interest in pursuing
philosophical thought.

108
00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:30,600
He deeply immersed himself
in evangelical Christianity.

109
00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:32,800
Didn't you go through

110
00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:34,278
a super serious kind of stage, too?

111
00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,318
A religious stage? Or... - Uh, it was...

112
00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,438
it was a degree of seriousness that went along to it,

113
00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,998
but it was so directly
associated to the group of people,

114
00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,118
you know, and we had fun at that, so... Yeah.

115
00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:47,878
- I mean, it was something nice to hang onto.

116
00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:49,998
It was a lot better than, you know,

117
00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,078
smoking dope and listening to Led Zeppelin records,

118
00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:53,438
which is what other people did.

119
00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,158
I just didn't do that.

120
00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:56,278
After middle school,

121
00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:00,198
he attended Skyline High
School in Oakland, California,

122
00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:01,718
making very little money

123
00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:05,758
by selling popcorn and
peanuts outside the coliseum.

124
00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,558
Tom graduated from high school in 1974,

125
00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,238
leaving with relatively low SAT scores.

126
00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:16,198
Without the finances to attend college,

127
00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,998
he decided to enroll in Chabot, a community college

128
00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,680
which presented Tom with a multitude of courses.

129
00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,680
It was fate that led Tom to taking up theater,

130
00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:31,680
and soon his talents began to flourish.

131
00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,678
Tom immersed himself in theater for two years.

132
00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:39,760
During this time, he met Vincent Dowling,

133
00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:44,080
head of the Great Lakes Theater
Festival in Cleveland, Ohio.

134
00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:45,760
It was thanks to Vincent

135
00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:48,960
that Tom attended an internship at the festival

136
00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:52,520
before being given the
offer to remain for three years

137
00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,960
as a production assistant, tending to lighting,

138
00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,720
set design, and costumes.

139
00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:00,400
Though Tom had transferred

140
00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,800
to California State University in Sacramento,

141
00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:08,400
this opportunity gave him a
reason to drop out of college,

142
00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:13,040
as his desires to be immersed
into the world of theater

143
00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,518
overcame his care for education.

144
00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,960
This isn't to say he left everything behind.

145
00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:21,360
At Sacramento,

146
00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,440
Tom formed a friendship with Samantha Lewes,

147
00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,200
who he met during acting classes.

148
00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:32,440
Tom, 21 at the time, found that 25-year-old Samantha

149
00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,080
helped battle his loneliness.

150
00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:38,120
Being an aspiring actress herself,

151
00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,200
the two formed a romantic relationship.

152
00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,440
And not long after, Samantha became pregnant.

153
00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:51,840
In 1977, Tom's first son, Colin Hanks, was born.

154
00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,600
Though Tom loved working on set,

155
00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,520
he began to realize his true calling

156
00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,920
was performing on stage as one of the actors.

157
00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,040
Tom would win his first award,

158
00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:07,998
the Cleveland Critics Circle "Best Actor" in 1978.

159
00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,838
Such an award was presented for Tom's role as Proteus

160
00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:15,318
in Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona..."

161
00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:19,920
one of the very few times Tom would play a villain.

162
00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:25,240
In 1978, the young couple, Tom and Samantha,

163
00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:26,320
were married.

164
00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:30,080
Hanks moved to New York City

165
00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,000
to debut in his very first low-budget slasher film,

166
00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,040
"He Knows You're Alone."

167
00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,560
He would go on to work on more projects

168
00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,160
starring in "Mazes and Monsters,"

169
00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,560
a television movie inspired
by the role-playing game,

170
00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:46,560
"Dungeons and Dragons."

171
00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:48,520
Well, when I was in school,

172
00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:50,478
I ended up going to the theater

173
00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,240
around the San Francisco Bay area alone,

174
00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,038
because I couldn't get anybody to go with me.

175
00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,638
Uh... and seeing the, you know,

176
00:08:57,680 --> 00:08:59,360
great plays and, you know, great theaters,

177
00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,080
I had wanted to... to work in that arena.

178
00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:03,400
I wanted to...

179
00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,560
I liked the energy that was
focused in a theater on stage,

180
00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:09,000
but I had originally started as a... a stage manager,

181
00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:10,878
or a stage carpenter, lighting designer,

182
00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:11,958
things like that.

183
00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:13,798
And through osmosis of and...

184
00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,120
and exploration in... in college and whatnot,

185
00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:19,238
realized that if you're going to be in the theater,

186
00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,998
the... the most energy, the focal point of it all,

187
00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:23,798
is really on stage as an actor

188
00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:24,920
underneath those lights in,

189
00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,998
in front of that stage manager.

190
00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:28,880
So, eventually I just kind of, through osmosis,

191
00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:29,918
drifted off into that.

192
00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:31,158
In the same year,

193
00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,158
Tom and Samantha's daughter, Elizabeth Hanks,

194
00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:35,598
was born.

195
00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,638
Remaining faithful to his theatrical roots,

196
00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:42,238
Tom would return to the
stage in Nicolo Machiavelli's,

197
00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:43,398
"The Mandrake"

198
00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,120
with the Riverside Shakespeare Company.

199
00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,038
Soon after in 1981,

200
00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,318
Hanks would land one of his first lead roles

201
00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:52,760
in "Bosom Buddies,"

202
00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,400
a television series running for two short seasons,

203
00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:00,400
featuring Tom and Peter Scolari as advertising men

204
00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:01,920
donning women's clothing

205
00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,960
in order to remain residents in an all-woman's hotel.

206
00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:07,800
Though the show was short-lived,

207
00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:11,920
the co-producers noticed
Tom's natural onscreen ability.

208
00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,438
A quote from Ian Praiser on Rolling Stone stated,

209
00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,318
"too bad he won't be on television for long...

210
00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,280
he'll be a movie star in two years."

211
00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:21,880
- And so when the...

212
00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:23,478
when the opportunity came up to do TV,

213
00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:25,838
I wasn't about to pass it up 'cause this was...

214
00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,240
bold, new territory in order to, you know,

215
00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:29,398
to strike out and try

216
00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:31,560
and see if you could learn anything and be good at it.

217
00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:34,438
On the set of "Bosom Buddies,"

218
00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:36,320
Tom would meet Rita Wilson.

219
00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:40,360
The two hit it off and became
close friends in a heartbeat.

220
00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:42,680
As the early eighties swept in,

221
00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:46,520
Tom met writers, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mendel,

222
00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:48,840
from a guest appearance on "Happy Days."

223
00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:50,680
The two were developing a script

224
00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:52,638
for the feature film "Splash,"

225
00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:54,360
a romantic comedy depicting

226
00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,558
a mermaid falling in love with a human.

227
00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,920
Director Ron Howard was informed by the writers

228
00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,640
of Hank's suitability for the bizarre premise.

229
00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,360
Though Howard initially considered Hanks

230
00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,520
for the role of Freddie, Allen's brother,

231
00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,480
Hanks landed the role of lead protagonist.

232
00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:18,720
The film would go on to being
a sudden box office success

233
00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,280
catapulting Hanks into new roles

234
00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,080
such as "Bachelor Party,"

235
00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,838
signifying the start of Tom's close relationship

236
00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:28,560
with director Ron Howard.

237
00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,478
Unfortunately, in 1984,

238
00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:36,198
Tom and Samantha would start to live separate lives

239
00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:37,880
due to misunderstandings

240
00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,360
and rising complications between the couple.

241
00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:46,200
Soon the two would drift
apart and plan to file for divorce.

242
00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:50,880
Following Tom's three guest
appearances on "Family Ties"

243
00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:55,080
in 1986, he was presented with the opportunity

244
00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,160
to step out of the realm of comedy

245
00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:01,200
and dip his toes into more dramatic roles.

246
00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:03,160
He would play David Basner,

247
00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,480
a successful advertising executive

248
00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:08,600
who deals with the repercussions
of his parents' divorce

249
00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:10,998
after 36 years.

250
00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:13,758
"Nothing in Common" allowed Tom

251
00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:17,680
to find common ground with his father, in a way.

252
00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,878
Though his father was not outspoken of his past,

253
00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,320
the film served as a way of

254
00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,320
reconnecting and understanding each other

255
00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,478
through the means of art and performance.

256
00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,360
It was in this same year

257
00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,120
Tom would go public with his
relationship with Rita Wilson.

258
00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,560
Though dealing with emotional hardships,

259
00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:43,640
it was in 1987 that Tom's credibility as an actor rose.

260
00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,920
He signed a deal with Walt Disney Studios,

261
00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,240
where he remained in a pool of talent

262
00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:50,680
for potential selection.

263
00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:55,200
Sadly, Tom and Samantha would divorce,

264
00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,078
going their separate ways.

265
00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:58,960
Tom would admit the relationship

266
00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,160
was primarily caused from his own loneliness

267
00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,480
and irresponsibility at a young age.

268
00:13:05,560 --> 00:13:08,320
Just a few days after the divorce,

269
00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,920
Samantha would slowly fall ill.

270
00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,240
(carnival music)

271
00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,720
For Josh Baskin, life was a little unfair.

272
00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,158
I told you to take out the garbage!

273
00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:23,278
You're gonna miss the bus!

274
00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:24,918
I'm not gonna tell you again, Josh!

275
00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:25,878
Joshua Baskin!

276
00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:26,998
Josh!

277
00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:29,440
Until he made a little wish.

278
00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:31,400
Tom Hanks' appearance in "Big"

279
00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,720
solidified him as a major Hollywood star.

280
00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,998
A fantasy comedy about a pre-adolescent boy

281
00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:42,120
whose wish to become an adult becomes reality.

282
00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,120
No stranger to absurdism,

283
00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,998
Tom embraced the man-child persona

284
00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:49,720
and was nominated for the Academy Award

285
00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,320
following his incredible performance.

286
00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,280
- You... you had to start off with a character,

287
00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:57,160
and in acting blah-blah terms, you know,

288
00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:00,078
Finding a center for the way your character moves.

289
00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:01,518
And it... it all...

290
00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:03,040
it all, you know, comes out like that.

291
00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,358
In... in... in the case of "Big,"

292
00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:08,718
what I remember about being, you know,

293
00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:09,640
12 and 13 years old,

294
00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,320
is being all elbows and knees, you know?

295
00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,278
It's like your body is growing too fast for... for...

296
00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:16,280
for your muscles or something like that.

297
00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:17,560
And so you're kind of...

298
00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:18,958
you're kind of out of control

299
00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,838
and there's a... there's a lack of discipline.

300
00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:24,600
But there's also a lack... I honestly don't know

301
00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,880
how I move as a regular human being

302
00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,918
because it... it changes
depending on what you're wearing,

303
00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:32,760
and this is another aspect of... of...

304
00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:35,478
you know, acting technique, blah-blah,

305
00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:39,118
finding a character, is because once you discover

306
00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:41,000
the clothes that the guy's gonna wear,

307
00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,720
that makes a very, very big difference.

308
00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,998
In the same year, both Tom and Sally Fields

309
00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:50,680
co-starred as struggling comedians in "Punchline."

310
00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:54,198
Just a year after his divorce with Samantha,

311
00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:58,200
Tom would marry Rita Wilson
at the St. Sophia Cathedral

312
00:14:58,280 --> 00:14:59,478
in London.

313
00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:03,318
After the ceremony, Tom
would convert to Greek Orthodox

314
00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:07,920
in respect of Rita's ancestry
and open-mindedness to faith.

315
00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,600
On the 4th of August, 1990,

316
00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,840
Tom's second son, Chet Hanks, was born

317
00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,320
five years before his third son, Truman Hanks,

318
00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,880
on the 26th of December.

319
00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:24,280
Tom would discover the myth of
being a so-called "perfect parent"

320
00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,160
opting to try the best he
could at raising his children

321
00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,118
despite his massive public image.

322
00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:33,480
On many occasions,

323
00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,880
his sons and wife are seen
with him at Red Carpet Awards

324
00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,320
as they celebrate as a family.

325
00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,558
Tom's career took a slight
decline during the late eighties,

326
00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,318
starring in a few underperforming films

327
00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:51,040
which received lukewarm receptions,

328
00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,958
especially in "Bonfire of the Vanities"

329
00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,440
where it was apparent

330
00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,800
Tom was seemingly miscast for the role.

331
00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,560
With his rising image as Hollywood's "Mr. Nice Guy,"

332
00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:05,480
playing sadistic characters

333
00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:07,360
pulled many out of the film.

334
00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:12,440
Tom then starred in "A League of Their Own" in 1992.

335
00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,720
Such early performances were considered by Tom

336
00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,078
as "pretentious and over-the-top."

337
00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:22,680
- The... the odds, I always, felt were... were 50/50.

338
00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:27,078
I always felt that I was as good as 50% who were there.

339
00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:28,160
So, you know, if they...

340
00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:31,120
if I'm what they're looking for, I have a 50/50 shot.

341
00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,120
I always felt that I was better than the other 50%

342
00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:35,560
just because...

343
00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:38,118
because I'm a selfish actor with a swelled head.

344
00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:39,198
But I think you have to...

345
00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,280
and you have to have that as you're sitting there.

346
00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:47,240
And it's not a false ego-bolstering,
confidence-building kind of move

347
00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,278
I always just viewed that as... as the facts.

348
00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,960
That on a good day in which I'm prepared, that I can...

349
00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:54,680
I can deliver the goods.

350
00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:57,080
It wasn't until 1993

351
00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:58,320
where Hanks had reached

352
00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:02,320
what he considered his modern era of filmmaking.

353
00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,880
He decided to adopt a new perspective

354
00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:08,720
on acting outside of his theatrical range.

355
00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,880
He starred in Nora Ephron's, "Sleepless in Seattle,"

356
00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,480
a massive blockbuster success

357
00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:19,080
and one which granted Tom incredible reviews.

358
00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:24,198
Tom Hanks' next film would act as a tonal change,

359
00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:27,480
both in his acting ability and career recognition.

360
00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:30,600
So are you big...

361
00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:32,478
tell me, are you big Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan fans?

362
00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:33,640
- Yeah - Definitely!

363
00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,080
- We love 'em both. - You bet. Yeah!

364
00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:36,080
- They're both great!

365
00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:37,878
And together, it's gonna be really great.

366
00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,360
- But I am intrigued as an actor

367
00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,038
by the situation that that creates,

368
00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:48,438
to be the average guy in
an extraordinary situation is...

369
00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,798
I mean, that's where you explore emotion and ideas

370
00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:52,838
and themes.

371
00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:55,878
Tom adopted method acting

372
00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,280
losing 35 pounds of weight and bleaching his hair

373
00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:01,438
to play as Andrew Beckett,

374
00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:06,438
a homosexual lawyer suffering
with AIDS in Philadelphia.

375
00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:08,278
- I was heavy to begin with

376
00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:11,400
because of a bunch of residual
weight from another movie.

377
00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:13,800
And in order to take off everything that I could,

378
00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:17,200
I went on a very structured physical regimen,

379
00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,998
a diet and exercise that was every day,

380
00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:24,198
seven days a week, for... I don't know... 16 years.

381
00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:25,720
It seemed like 16 years;

382
00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:27,280
it was four or five months.

383
00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:29,000
His memorable performance

384
00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:32,200
shed light on the stigma of homosexuality

385
00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:34,160
during the time of release,

386
00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,960
combating the taboos of gay relations,

387
00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,680
and triggered the conversation of gay rights

388
00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,320
among the nineties mainstream viewers.

389
00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,238
- If this was 1962,

390
00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:49,000
and Rock Hudson had to pretend to be married to his,

391
00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:51,800
you know, his... his publicist's secretary and...

392
00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,640
and Louella Parsons was
still stabbing people in the back

393
00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:57,960
with her newspaper column, maybe it would be a...

394
00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,240
a tough role to take on, but believe me,

395
00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,280
in the United States and in the UK,

396
00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:06,480
there is stuff on free TV day-in and day-out

397
00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:10,080
that make me playing a homosexual small potatoes

398
00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:11,160
in comparison.

399
00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:13,400
Philadelphia would act as

400
00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,518
Tom's grand entrance into the limelight

401
00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,918
as his portrayal won him

402
00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:22,040
the 66th Academy Award for best actor.

403
00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,440
If things couldn't get better than winning one Oscar,

404
00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:28,800
Tom would play the titular character

405
00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,480
in one of Hollywood's most memorable productions.

406
00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,880
(orchestra music)

407
00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:54,240
In 1994, "Forrest Gump" was released,

408
00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:58,278
grossing over 600 million pounds at the box office

409
00:19:58,320 --> 00:19:59,958
and presented audiences

410
00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,278
with quotes that remain in use until this day.

411
00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:09,320
My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates-

412
00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:11,880
you never know what you're gonna get.

413
00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:12,720
- Delightful.

414
00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:14,080
This is wonderful.

415
00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:15,278
I was talking to Steve Tisch,

416
00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:16,360
and I understand that it...

417
00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:18,480
it took him like nine years to develop this project.

418
00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:20,238
How was it for you working on this project

419
00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,118
because you have so many different characters

420
00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:24,438
that you're playing all in one?

421
00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:26,478
- Well, I was... I was lucky that I came on

422
00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:27,998
right at the same time Eric Roth did,

423
00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:29,758
so we actually talked about it

424
00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:33,278
philosophically and
particularly for quite some time

425
00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,200
before, um... uh...

426
00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,758
uh, probably a year before the... the script was written.

427
00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:40,518
So when it came in and it was what it was,

428
00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,600
it was undeniably a thing that was worth shooting.

429
00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,880
Bob was involved and there we were instantaneously!

430
00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:47,918
How did it... how did it feel after you saw it

431
00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:49,960
when it was edited with all those famous figures,

432
00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,080
like over your shoulder

433
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,038
and in the scenes because of morphing and stuff?

434
00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:55,438
- Well, that's all... that's all a pretty goofy sensation.

435
00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,400
But you see it and you realize it's...

436
00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,238
the odds are against you making a good movie,

437
00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,320
so anytime that you think you've done that,

438
00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,760
you know, you break the Bank of Monte Carlo.

439
00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:06,718
Yeah, well the odds are not against you, Tom Hanks

440
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,638
of making a good movie or your wife, Rita Wilson!

441
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,440
You know, he's got Oscars on the on the...

442
00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:13,358
on the wall to prove it.

443
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,118
- I got one! Yeah, it's nice to have it too.

444
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:16,438
And a bunch of swimming trophies!

445
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,638
And many nominations!

446
00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,398
- So much of what, you know, movie goes in

447
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:23,600
is you gotta play someone who's tortured or racked

448
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:25,120
or going through something that is...

449
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,678
that is somehow driving him to distractions

450
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,318
and Forrest Gump just doesn't know what...

451
00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:32,478
doesn't know what that means.

452
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:34,718
And so there ends up being a much more kind of,

453
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:36,520
kind of pure reaction to the world

454
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,238
as opposed to interaction with the world.

455
00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:39,518
And that's... that was fun.

456
00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:41,000
You've gone from playing a very

457
00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:42,838
intelligent character in Philadelphia

458
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,358
to playing someone not so bright.

459
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,438
Is that really fun

460
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,318
for an actor to move that far across the mental-

461
00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:52,000
- Well, you know, I didn't really... it's funny,

462
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:52,798
I didn't really...

463
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:54,560
I've never really thought about it that way.

464
00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,198
The nature of the movies
are so incredibly different.

465
00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,040
He's not... he's not poisoned by...

466
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,158
by any sort of cynicism.

467
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:02,518
But because of that, he comes...

468
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,720
it can be taken as a great naivety.

469
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:05,480
He really only..

470
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,120
He only has... he only knows three things.

471
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,080
He knows he knows about God, he knows about his mama,

472
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:15,678
and he knows about the woman that he loves, Jenny.

473
00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:16,638
And after that he...

474
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,478
he needs nothing else in order to keep him...

475
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:19,638
keep him going.

476
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,758
Tom would win yet another Academy Award

477
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:25,160
being the second actor to do so back-to-back

478
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,158
after Spencer Tracy.

479
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,518
Before wanting to become an actor,

480
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:34,320
Tom Hank's greatest ambition was to be an astronaut.

481
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,360
It was in 1995

482
00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:38,840
that he reunited with Ron Howard

483
00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,838
and Tom's dreams became reality

484
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,880
with the release of "Apollo 13."

485
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,440
Tom's admiration and fascination with the galaxy

486
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,398
would later land him the NASA Public Service Award

487
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:53,640
for his commitment

488
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,360
to increasing the public's interest in space.

489
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:02,718
Furthermore, the asteroid 12818
Tomhanks was named after him

490
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,360
in respect of his achievements.

491
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:06,518
I didn't want to insult George.

492
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,158
I don't think I did, but you know,

493
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:10,918
we think that these fantastic machines

494
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,198
and these amazing senses of accomplishment are...

495
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,800
are relegated only to science fiction

496
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,800
and fantasy of motion pictures

497
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:19,998
and just the fact that we've

498
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,958
already had robots that have explored Jupiter

499
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,278
in some ways and in Mars, in other ways,

500
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:26,398
and we've had human beings

501
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,078
that have already traveled to
existing planets on voyages.

502
00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:32,278
Um... what is... what's the...

503
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:33,718
what's the line from "Star Trek..."

504
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,798
"boldly gone where no men have gone before."

505
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,678
- What kind of things could we do, as citizens,

506
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:39,998
to curb global warming?

507
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:41,038
- To curb global warming?

508
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,798
You can buy the right kind of refrigerator,

509
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:44,480
you can drive the right kind of car,

510
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,958
you can conserve the right
kind of energy and resources.

511
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,400
You can plant trees.

512
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,320
You can not destroy trees.

513
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,478
You can not pave over something
that shouldn't be paved over.

514
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,638
You can write your congressman and make sure that...

515
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,558
that more wildlife refuges are saved, preserved,

516
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:58,318
and even created.

517
00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:00,040
- Is the Bush administration doing enough

518
00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:01,038
to curb global warming?

519
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,278
- I think, by and large, you'd have to say no.

520
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,478
I think the... I think almost at any time,

521
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,440
whatever administration that is in the White House

522
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:08,280
could do more.

523
00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:09,638
I think in the case of the...

524
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,238
of our present administration,

525
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:13,598
he's got a lot of things on his plate,

526
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,120
no doubt about it.

527
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,240
We have the greatest
respect for our elected officials.

528
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:18,320
But you know what?

529
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,518
Part of the elected officials
that serve every four years

530
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,960
have to think about the next 40 years at the same time.

531
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,598
So that's... when they...

532
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,080
they have plenty of time to get on that bandwagon,

533
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:28,118
if you you ask me.

534
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:29,200
I gotta go!

535
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:29,998
Jim Lovell,

536
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,160
tell us what it was like when
you met him the first time,

537
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,078
you actually... playing this role, playing him.

538
00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:36,798
So, you know about the... you knew about the incident-

539
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,238
- Oh, yes. Yeah, I knew all about it.

540
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,598
So I was... I was meeting... not somebody...

541
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:42,918
A very accomplished hero from my point of view,

542
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:43,638
and I think what every...

543
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:44,847
I think I thought what everybody thinks of

544
00:24:44,889 --> 00:24:47,078
when they first meet Jim, they think,

545
00:24:47,120 --> 00:24:48,960
"boy, you know, astronauts are not that tall...

546
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:50,600
they're just not that tall."

547
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,320
I think that irony is what sets it above

548
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,158
any of the other stories that... that...

549
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:56,958
that actually occurred.

550
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,320
They're all fascinating stories

551
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,720
of how we got to the moon and... and back.

552
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:05,238
But here that the triumph actually comes out of...

553
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,880
out of this... this failure to to...

554
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,200
to achieve the, flight's goals,

555
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,960
I think actually makes it much
more accessible to everybody.

556
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,600
(laughs)

557
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:18,280
- And I could say that, honestly,

558
00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:19,280
I don't think we really...

559
00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:20,158
I don't think we ever got mad at each other at all,

560
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:20,960
which is really kind of.

561
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:22,760
- I think actually kind of looked forward

562
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,360
to being able to go into the set.

563
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:25,558
Yeah.

564
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,600
- because it was a much... it was a much tighter unit.

565
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,120
We could just mumble to each other very quietly

566
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,760
and maybe talk to Ron over the... over the headsets

567
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:33,920
when we got to clear out.

568
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,880
Although there's usually one special effects guy

569
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,158
down at our feet

570
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,640
holding some kind of thing up there for us.

571
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:41,598
How you doing down there?

572
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:42,598
Good to see you!

573
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:43,598
You all right?

574
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:44,598
You have some good lunch?

575
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:45,600
Kind of like that.

576
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:46,600
Later that year,

577
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,520
Tom would try his hand at something completely new,

578
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,880
setting his sights on voice acting

579
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,800
for the much loved "Toy Story" franchise.

580
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,320
Not only was this Tom's first role

581
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,920
acting in an animated film,

582
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,478
it was also the first film to be computer-animated.

583
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,960
Not only did Tom portray Woody,

584
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,520
a loved character by millions,

585
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,800
he also took part in a historical achievement,

586
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,320
which would later branch into the world

587
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,040
of modern 3D animation.

588
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:20,800
Yes, I am.

589
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:21,640
I am the cowboy.

590
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,280
I see the tall, lanky, brooding loner of a cowboy.

591
00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:27,078
So how does this differ

592
00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:29,080
from all your other movies that you have done before?

593
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:30,318
- Jeepers!

594
00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:31,398
I've never played a cartoon character

595
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,160
who was a tall, lanky cowboy before.

596
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,520
So this must be really exciting and different!

597
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:36,400
A whole new world, right?

598
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:37,600
- It's, uh, yeah...

599
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,040
it's a relatively... not too much...

600
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:41,920
not a lot of is expected of me.

601
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,560
Tim!

602
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,920
Hey, look, everybody, it's Tim Allen!

603
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,040
You're so cute in real life!

604
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,600
(crowd chatter)

605
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:53,520
It's Tim Allen.

606
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:54,358
- No, not... not me.

607
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:55,398
I'm an adult now.

608
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:56,680
I'm very big now.

609
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:57,640
I'm big.

610
00:26:57,718 --> 00:26:58,518
I'm powerful and I'm... I'm an adult.

611
00:26:58,560 --> 00:26:59,318
I have no child left.

612
00:26:59,360 --> 00:27:01,320
- You know, in fact, he is really big.

613
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,038
He tried to crush everybody
who was in the recording studio.

614
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:04,278
- Yeah.

615
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:05,280
- He kind of came in and said,

616
00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:06,294
"hello, I'm Tim Allen, I will crush you."

617
00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:07,227
- "I'm Tim Allen. Where's my masseuse?"

618
00:27:07,269 --> 00:27:07,958
- "I will crush you now."

619
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,358
- "Where's my masseuse?"

620
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:10,920
I constantly had massages going.

621
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,960
In 1996, Hanks makes his directing debut

622
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:16,720
with "That Thing You Do"

623
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,520
and co-produced and co-directed the docu-drama,

624
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,600
"From Earth to the Moon,"

625
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,038
a costly and ambitious project,

626
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,160
which proceeded to win an Emmy.

627
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,560
Columbia, this is Houston reading you loud and clear.

628
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:32,840
The EVA is progressing beautifully.

629
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,320
- Just when Tom had seemingly reached

630
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,240
the height of his career,

631
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:41,560
he decided to team up with Steven Spielberg in 1998

632
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,760
on "Saving Private Ryan."

633
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,920
The depiction of World War II

634
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,398
achieved another best actor
award nomination for Hanks,

635
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,720
alongside being a technical marvel

636
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,840
to rival Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now."

637
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,520
The journey into the two thousands

638
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,640
proved equally successful.

639
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,680
Tom would star in timeless Blockbuster hits,

640
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,600
"The Green Mile" and "Toy Story 2"

641
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:12,680
before tying the knot with "Cast Away" in the year 2000.

642
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,240
- I'm gonna talk to this lady! Hello, how are you?

643
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:16,440
- I'm fine.

644
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:17,798
- Do you have questions for me?

645
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:18,758
- Yes.

646
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,598
Um, what's it like working on an animated film

647
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,758
instead of just like a non-animated?

648
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,798
- Well, when you're in an animated movie,

649
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:26,640
all you're doing is going inside this dark room

650
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,200
and standing in front of a music stand

651
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:29,278
with a microphone above it

652
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:30,438
and that's all you get to do.

653
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,238
When you make a real movie, you're outdoors,

654
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:33,838
you're in a costume.

655
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:35,198
There's other people to talk to.

656
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:36,478
So it's a very different thing.

657
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,358
This is like doing a... a radio play in your room

658
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,758
all by yourself into a tape recorder

659
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,518
and people are on the other side of the door

660
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:44,998
listening to everything you say.

661
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,878
- Did you have fun working on this movie?

662
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,078
- I think I had a lot of fun.

663
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:49,318
I think the people are great

664
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,158
and I think they took very good care of us

665
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:52,758
and they think they made a nice movie.

666
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:54,798
Tom, you've had a pretty illustrious career.

667
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,358
You see all these kids out here,

668
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:57,958
you see a whole new generation of people

669
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,198
coming to see your film, how does that make you feel?

670
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,518
Well, I... it's... film this forever, thank goodness.

671
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,598
And, uh, it's always intimidating because you don't...

672
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,598
I don't think anybody who makes movies

673
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:08,518
wants to let them down.

674
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,078
You always hope that they're gonna get... you know,

675
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,798
they're gonna come out and they're saying,

676
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,800
well that was 90 minutes, it was very well spent.

677
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,200
What about the binging and dieting?

678
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:17,998
- The what?

679
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:18,998
The binging and dieting.

680
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:20,360
- I did not binge, but I did diet.

681
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,238
No purging, no binging, no purging.

682
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,520
Just a lot of... just be careful what you eat

683
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:25,598
and get a lot of exercise.

684
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,718
I think I had somehow, you know,

685
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:28,718
considered every conceivable

686
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:33,160
solitary confinement POW
castaway story in my own head

687
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,520
and tried to pare it down to literally how...

688
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:36,318
how do you fight that?

689
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:37,880
How do you... how do you get past...

690
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,240
get taking care of your day and, you know,

691
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:41,358
nothing's coming over that horizon to...

692
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,918
not even just rescue you, but to distract you from...

693
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:46,440
from everything that you're surrounded...

694
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:47,600
I... I... it was...

695
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,318
it was... I'm glad I had seven years to prepare for it.

696
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,958
The, I mean, the faith that you have to have is that

697
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,360
Bob as a filmmaker and Bill as a... a writer,

698
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,680
are constantly gonna be testing the material

699
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,958
so that what I'm doing up there,

700
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,160
up alone on a screen however long it is,

701
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,358
is actually reflective of the audience's struggle

702
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:06,600
in their own daily lives.

703
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:07,558
Even though it hasn't...

704
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,318
It would seem as though to have nothing to do with it.

705
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,518
If you can do that, that's the great power of the cinema.

706
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,878
Hanks returned to the filmmakers' chair in 2001,

707
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,918
directing and producing HBO's "Band of Brothers."

708
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,838
Whilst scouting locations, Tom would accidentally

709
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,158
fall through the rotting floor
of a building in Germany;

710
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,000
the incident resulted in a dislocated shoulder.

711
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,560
Though injured, Tom would fight on

712
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,160
and continue with the production of the show.

713
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,360
(piano music)

714
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:43,360
- Peter, I can't come to your concert tonight. I'm working.

715
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:44,440
- Working at what?

716
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,400
Though a slightly lesser known project,

717
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,278
one of Hank's personal favorite endeavors

718
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,240
was "Road to Perdition"

719
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:01,638
directed by the legendary director, Sam Mendes.

720
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,160
- You'd fall into his clutches, so to speak,

721
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:05,000
and make the film.

722
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,158
I... he's the finest director I've ever worked with

723
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,040
and I've worked with good directors.

724
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:11,838
Well, I think it's always a...

725
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,880
the relationship between father and son

726
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,998
is a very, very, very complex thing

727
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,718
with all sorts of layers

728
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,080
that just seem to go on and on forever.

729
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:21,920
So anytime you can do anything

730
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,360
that can tap into those kinds of universal feelings

731
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,678
that even in the confines of a big gangster movie,

732
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,760
it always... it can touch anybody.

733
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,760
In 2002, Hanks and his wife Rita,

734
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,720
would co-produce "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."

735
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,560
Establishing a close relationship
with his fellow directors,

736
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,400
Tom would remain busy

737
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,758
also starring in the Spielberg classic,

738
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:58,720
"Catch Me If You Can."

739
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,800
Spielberg would go on to present

740
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,800
the American Film Institute's
Life Achievement Award,

741
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,840
and Tom would be the youngest ever

742
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,720
to receive such a prestigious accolade.

743
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,360
Sadly, on March 12th,

744
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,600
Samantha Lewes passed away from bone cancer

745
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,480
at the age of 49.

746
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,678
Upon confirmation, Tom was deeply hurt from the news,

747
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,760
as Samantha had provided him

748
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:31,640
with an unfathomable amount
of support in his younger years,

749
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,920
her burial would take place at Sacramento

750
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,080
and her legacy as an actress

751
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:41,000
would live on with both the public and Tom.

752
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:48,960
Tom's filmography had seemingly no end in sight.

753
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,440
Participating in giant projects every year,

754
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:56,640
Tom was established as a man
who could embody any character

755
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,198
that was thrown at him.

756
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,160
(crowd applause)

757
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:02,880
- Thank you.

758
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:04,520
Thank you. Thank you very much.

759
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:10,120
Bob raise... wave, Bob, I can't see where you are.

760
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:10,960
All right, okay.

761
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:12,720
Hey, you... you visual effects geeks,

762
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,160
you... you clean up really good, I must say.

763
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:17,840
Usually I see you in...

764
00:33:18,871 --> 00:33:19,838
in some cramped production office

765
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,000
or one of those industrial parks out in the valley,

766
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:26,720
and you're wearing year-old running shoes

767
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,120
and you're wearing cargo shorts

768
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:32,598
and you're exhausted eating pizza and diet Cokes

769
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:36,640
for months on end looking at me

770
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,520
on a little, little tiny computer monitor somewhere.

771
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:41,718
And you always say the same thing to me,

772
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,278
"boy, you're much taller in real life, Mr. Hanks"

773
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:45,960
(laughs)

774
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:47,880
and I say, "hey, you just keep working hard,

775
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,240
making me look so good or so strong or so fast,

776
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,680
or so whatever it is you're make me look."

777
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:54,558
So it's real pleasure to be here.

778
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,478
Raking in great success with the Coen Brothers' film,

779
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:58,880
"The Ladykillers,"

780
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,038
Spielberg's "The Terminal,"

781
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,918
and Robert Zemeckis' "Polar Express,"

782
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,440
where Tom played five
different on-screen characters,

783
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:08,720
a huge statement

784
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,120
for the incoming age of motion-capture technology.

785
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:17,118
In 2005, Hanks was voted as Vice President

786
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,720
of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

787
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,800
thanks to his outstanding contribution to the arts.

788
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,120
From acting in "The Da Vinci Code"

789
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,558
and producing the animated film, "The Ant Bully,"

790
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,438
Tom would be approached by many executives

791
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,440
to maintain his creative trajectory,

792
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,600
producing "Starter for 10,"

793
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,240
and acting in "Charlie Wilson's War,"

794
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,200
and "The Great Buck Howard"

795
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:47,158
all before dipping his toes
into the much loved musical,

796
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:48,240
"Mama Mia!"

797
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,840
♪ Mamma Mia! Here I go again! ♪

798
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,760
♪ My, my, how can I resist you? ♪

799
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,638
And how could you possibly resist this?

800
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,238
Stars, super troupers, and dancing queens galore!

801
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,600
Mamma Mia! is the ultimate
celebration of everything Abba.

802
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:15,000
In 2010, "Toy Story 3" grossed over 1 billion,

803
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:19,200
making it the highest grossing
animated film at the time.

804
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,320
Hanks had become synonymous,

805
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,560
not just with the adult population,

806
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:24,960
but with children too.

807
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,000
On one encounter, a child in an elevator

808
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:33,240
refused to believe Tom played
as Woody from the franchise.

809
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,198
- And then the mother tries to explain,

810
00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:37,600
"no, the voice is recorded

811
00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:40,758
and the actor who is the voice, this is the actor!"

812
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,240
They... the kids just don't get it at all.

813
00:35:44,240 --> 00:35:45,198
They say, "where's the vest?

814
00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:46,000
Where's the cowboy hat?

815
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:46,998
You're not very tall."

816
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,720
And so I say, "all right, close your eyes."

817
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:50,558
And they go, "what?"

818
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:51,720
I say, "just close your eyes."

819
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:52,800
So the kid goes...

820
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:55,200
and then I say,

821
00:35:55,251 --> 00:35:56,518
"we gotta get back to Andy's room right away, guys!"

822
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:57,760
and then they go...

823
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,680
(audience laughs)

824
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,560
- In 2013,

825
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,800
Hanks opened up about his type 2 diabetes diagnosis,

826
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,318
a causation from, as he stated,

827
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:13,000
"unhealthy eating habits and poor genes."

828
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,160
Tom, however,

829
00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:17,120
would not let his diagnosis hinder his work rate

830
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:18,920
or performances,

831
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,398
and instead chose to find a healthy medium,

832
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,438
opting for daily exercises

833
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,640
and finding healthier eating habits

834
00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:29,080
to ensure his own longevity.

835
00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:35,238
Continuing his journey, Tom would take the role

836
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,520
of James Donovan in "Bridge of Spies,"

837
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,318
releasing his own book, "Alan Bean Plus Four,"

838
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:43,360
along the way.

839
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,000
Tom had developed a unique style

840
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,638
in how he approached his many characters.

841
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,240
- If we don't get this right, we're doomed, you know?

842
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,280
If we don't get some aspect of life in 1961 in Berlin

843
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,760
down correct, we're really quite, uh...

844
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:01,480
we're fools.

845
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,160
Though all unique, he would excel

846
00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:08,000
and subsequently be
praised for his ability to perform

847
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:12,760
as ordinary characters
in extraordinary situations.

848
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:16,398
Being a man of the people, in 2016,

849
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:20,478
he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom,

850
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,440
the nation's highest civilian award

851
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,640
by President Barack Obama.

852
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:28,960
- Hitler's armies would not
have stopped their killing

853
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,760
had we not fought them on the beaches

854
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,960
and on the landing routes...

855
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,600
in the fields and on the streets.

856
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:40,080
We must never forget

857
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,680
that there was nothing
inevitable about our victory

858
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:43,920
in that terrible war.

859
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,720
It was won through the courage
and character of our people.

860
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,680
- Tom Hanks was shown some big love in the Big Apple

861
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,558
at Lincoln Center's
star-studded tribute to the actor.

862
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,040
Stepping out for the gala were Tom's wife, Rita Wilson,

863
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,078
and son, Colin, plus a slew of a-list friends

864
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:09,198
from actresses Julia Roberts, Charlize Theron,

865
00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:11,200
and Sally Field, to directors Steven Spielberg,

866
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,718
Ron Howard, and Robert Zemeckis.

867
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:14,520
- I loved it.

868
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,038
It's effortless with a person like that.

869
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,840
He's so kind and lovely and just great.

870
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,240
- He's been so consistently good for so long

871
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,040
that it's very exciting to be here

872
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,280
to honor somebody like him because it's so deserved.

873
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:26,600
- He's just an amazing guy.

874
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:27,680
He really is.

875
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,640
Wonderful talent and just incredible.

876
00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:31,960
- He's an everyman.

877
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:33,640
He's eminently watchable

878
00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:36,558
and he's a really nice guy, which is fantastic.

879
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:37,998
- His ambition has driven him

880
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:39,680
not to necessarily be more commercial,

881
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,080
although he has been, but to be creatively ambitious.

882
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:44,598
- There's that scene in...

883
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,400
in Forest Gump where he is talking to Jenny's grave,

884
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:48,318
and I turned around

885
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,880
and the entire crew was
like crying behind the camera.

886
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,360
So it's there... it's there, and it's really real.

887
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,360
♪ It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood. ♪

888
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,640
♪ A beautiful day for a neighbor. ♪

889
00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:02,720
♪ Would you be mine? ♪

890
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,800
♪ Could you be mine? ♪

891
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:09,160
♪ Please won't you be ♪

892
00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:11,120
A perfect coincidence arose

893
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,440
when Tom portrayed the role of Fred Rogers in

894
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,120
"A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood."

895
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,320
The role had Tom apprehensive at first,

896
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,560
as Mr. Rogers was a very public figure

897
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:25,998
and would need a strong performance

898
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,240
to bring his gentle persona back to the screen.

899
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,480
As it happened, this came naturally to Tom,

900
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,760
who later found out he was related to Fred,

901
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,798
the two men being sixth cousins,

902
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,518
sharing the same five-times distant grandfather

903
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:48,400
who immigrated to America
from Germany in the 18th century.

904
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:53,120
- There's a thing that has just never changed for me...

905
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:59,800
when I was, uh, in... in university

906
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:01,680
and I didn't know that there was such a thing

907
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,238
as being an actor for a living, I just thought,

908
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,920
you know, "that's only for like movie stars"

909
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:07,760
or something like that.

910
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:09,800
But then when I started going to the theater,

911
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:11,920
I'd be watching anything from Shakespeare

912
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,600
to Eugene O'Neill, to... to any of the great plays

913
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,000
and I just thought...

914
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,040
I had this great yearning just to be a part of it,

915
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,198
just to be part of being somebody else

916
00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:26,358
and saying this very specific dialogue

917
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,200
and being part of this great... this great story.

918
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:35,320
And when I started studying the theater, you know,

919
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:36,440
by accident I guess,

920
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,158
there was just no life like it.

921
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:44,280
Surprisingly, this wasn't, Tom's only known ancestor.

922
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,520
Hanks had known from a young age

923
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,918
that he was also a distant cousin

924
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:52,200
of not only the former President Abraham Lincoln,

925
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,640
but also Walt Disney,

926
00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:59,080
who Tom depicted in the film, "Saving Mr. Banks" in 2013.

927
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:01,680
- Never ever just marry.

928
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:02,640
Now where is Mr. Disney?

929
00:41:02,720 --> 00:41:04,038
- She's here!

930
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,600
- Well, Pamela Travers,

931
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:10,278
you can't imagine how excited I am to finally meet you.

932
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:13,640
- Would you mind? My name is Mrs. Travers, Mr. Disney.

933
00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:15,318
Chris with GMA Philippines, my question to you is,

934
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:17,678
you, Keanu Reeves,

935
00:41:17,720 --> 00:41:19,158
there's a handful of Hollywood actors and actresses

936
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:20,240
that everybody seems to love.

937
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,720
How have you weaved through all these years

938
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:24,798
in a career in Hollywood

939
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,560
and not gotten many people pissed off at you?

940
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:28,840
And no scandals, all that?

941
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,918
- Well, you know, I... I... I don't know.

942
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,198
It's not a... it's not a...

943
00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:35,080
it's not a... it's not an agenda.

944
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:36,280
There's no strategy to it.

945
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:37,240
I will just say this

946
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,680
and I... I have worked briefly with Keanu,

947
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,200
he has a wonderful answer to those questions.

948
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:43,800
Why... what is it like being...

949
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,560
how is it to be so well-regarded, well-liked?

950
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:47,960
And he always says,

951
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:49,140
"well, it's preferable to the alternative,"

952
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:50,120
which is true.

953
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,160
I'd rather be, you know, appreciated than loathed.

954
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:55,318
That's just me.

955
00:41:55,360 --> 00:42:00,000
But I will say that years and years ago... when I...

956
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,438
when I realized that being an actor was a thing,

957
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:07,158
a job, a craft, a pursuit you could have,

958
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,318
I didn't think there was be anything

959
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,640
that could possibly be more fun.

960
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:18,200
Unfortunately,

961
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,720
Tom and his wife Rita were
struck with the coronavirus

962
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,798
during the 2020 pandemic.

963
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,880
Though many worried for his health,

964
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:30,160
he would reassure the public of his wellbeing.

965
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:32,640
Opting to make good of the situation,

966
00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:34,878
he and his wife donated their blood

967
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,120
for the research against the virus.

968
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:39,318
- Take your theraflu.

969
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,760
Don't... don't get what I have.

970
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:46,080
I had two... half my household had the other flu.

971
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,040
You know, that comes out both ways.

972
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,838
I got lucky. I just had a horrible cold.

973
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,560
Making a hasty comeback,

974
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,400
Tom appeared on Saturday Night Live,

975
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,640
finding his footing once more

976
00:42:57,720 --> 00:43:00,440
in the world of stage performance.

977
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,478
Thank you so much!

978
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:06,280
Though he has aged,

979
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:10,998
not once has Tom Hanks taken a break from acting.

980
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:11,958
Instead,

981
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,960
taking on as much work as
possible to entertain the public

982
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,280
and experience new characters.

983
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:19,958
Um, and how was Tom?

984
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:21,520
How did Tom fair next to you in the cockpit?

985
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:22,600
- He did okay.

986
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:25,480
(laughs)

987
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:26,560
He did badly?

988
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:27,598
- No, I'm kidding.

989
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:28,598
He's awesome.

990
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:29,440
Tom's one of our big boys.

991
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,520
He's given us such great performances.

992
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,318
He's an awesome person.

993
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,160
It was a pleasure and a privilege to be next to him

994
00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:37,478
in this movie.

995
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,520
I think he gives a great performance.

996
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:41,080
I was in awe of him.

997
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:42,240
And same thing with Clint.

998
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,238
I mean, we're working with really good people here.

999
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,958
People that I've admired my whole life.

1000
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,078
What are we gonna do?

1001
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,280
- We'll bring hell down from on high.

1002
00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:55,760
From "Greyhound" to "Finch,"

1003
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,640
Tom would find himself
starring in Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis"

1004
00:43:59,720 --> 00:44:01,320
in 2022.

1005
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,120
Shortly after, he made an appearance as Geppetto

1006
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:11,560
in Disney's live-action iteration of "Pinocchio."

1007
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:17,440
In 2023, Tom has made a statement

1008
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,320
starring in "A Man Called Otto,"

1009
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,080
a very rare occasion,

1010
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:25,640
he would play a grumpy, downtrodden character

1011
00:44:25,720 --> 00:44:28,878
in order to break his own conventions.

1012
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,680
Following this, Tom would
collaborate with Wes Anderson

1013
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,280
for the first time in his career,

1014
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,560
starring in "Asteroid City,"

1015
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,320
a casting Tom would no doubt suit

1016
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,960
thanks to his ongoing
advocation for space research.

1017
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,998
So you played in so many movies,

1018
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:48,800
which one of them is your favorite?

1019
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:50,598
- Oh, that's impossible to say.

1020
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:54,120
They... all of them were... all of them were magical.

1021
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:55,080
You have to...

1022
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:58,518
you have to separate out the
experience of making the movie

1023
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,398
and the way it is taken in by the marketplace.

1024
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:03,680
They do not... they do not correlate.

1025
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,560
I've made... I've made movies that were uncomfortable

1026
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,200
and just fun enough and they've done well,

1027
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,720
and I've made movies that I've loved every second of it,

1028
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:13,120
and they come out and our...

1029
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:16,560
the audience seems to be perhaps confused by them.

1030
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,240
I will say this though, however,

1031
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,960
I have never ever regretted
being part of an ensemble

1032
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,320
or the adventure that a... that
a movie movie comes along.

1033
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,040
I... I must say one of the great things

1034
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,640
is you can always, you can always say, well, you know,

1035
00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:33,560
they didn't get it in the United States, but man,

1036
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,160
are we crushing it in eastern Europe?

1037
00:45:36,240 --> 00:45:38,800
They love our movie in Eastern Europe!

1038
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:39,640
It's playing great.

1039
00:45:39,720 --> 00:45:42,240
So that's a good... that's a good thing to know.

1040
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:43,920
To travel from one place to another,

1041
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,638
from one personality to the next.

1042
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,240
The life of an actor is a hardship.

1043
00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:55,038
From pure consistency, versatility, and durability.

1044
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,360
Tom Hanks has faced hardship head-on

1045
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,200
and not once has stopped for a break.

1046
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:03,480
He has brought warmth

1047
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,078
to the hearts of millions around the world

1048
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,280
with his dynamic powerhouse performances

1049
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,880
known by adults and children alike.

1050
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:14,600
From humble beginnings

1051
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:18,758
to becoming one of the
greatest actors of the modern day,

1052
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:23,160
What makes the world love
this gentle nomad of the arts

1053
00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:27,560
isn't just his ability to
accommodate the extraordinary,

1054
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:32,120
but also to be completely and utterly ordinary.

1055
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:38,000
(orchestra music)