The TV show Tom Hanks refused to star in: “I’d just as soon not”
“What are you talking about?”
Tom Hanks
How a movie that swept the board at the Razzies won Tom Hanks an Oscar: “I was fascinated”
No, really, it makes sense.
The Tom Hanks role Morgan Freeman wished he’d played: “Any of us would have jumped at it”
Freeman would’ve jumped at the chance.
Tom Hanks’ favourite Elvis song arrived late in life: “What the heck is that song?”
Better late than never!
The single moment that Tom Hanks knew he wanted to be an actor: “I knew I’d do anything”
“Determined my career”.
The movie that allowed Tom Hanks to become the artist he had always wanted to be
“My sense of self and artistic thirst grew at the same time…”
How an angry film scene inspired Tom Hanks’ most lucrative role: “Thus it began”
It became a sensation.
The one movie that changed Tom Hanks’ “entire consciousness” but flopped at the box office
“The only movie I’ve been in that I’ve seen more than twice.”
“Cultural phenomenon”: the only TV show Tom Hanks called “truly as big as The Beatles”
That’s a lofty claim.