Tom Hankshas had his fair share of unforgettable fan encounters — both good and bad.
“WhenBigcame out, my dad and my stepmom were in New York and we went to a really fancy restaurant,” said Hanks, 63. “There was a pianist, a harpist and a violinist playing a little bit of music. Suddenly a piano and a harp and a violin started playing ‘Heart and Soul.’ I said, ‘I think this is because of the movie.’ ”
WhenKelly Clarksonasked the acclaimed actor if he gets embarrassed when recognized, he admitted that he’s had much worse fan encounters.
“It’s better than the other stuff they yell at you!” he said. ” ‘Wilson!’ I get a lot of that. ‘Brace for impact!’ Anything that landed in a movie.”
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An amused Clarkson, 37, then admitted to Hanks that she calls the sports balls in her home Wilson, a reference to his 2000 filmCast Away.
“We’re like, ‘Grab Wilson, put it in the car,’ ” Clarkson said.
Hanks added that he gets “a little bit of everything” — including fans citing lines from his numerous films, like “Houston we have a problem!” from his award-winning 1995 movieApollo 13.
“There’s no such thing as an easy role to do,”he toldCBS Morning News. “The moment I said ‘yes,’ I began to have the night sweats.”
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The Oscar winner also admitted that taking on the role was “terrifying,” and that he turned it down “a couple of times” before director Marielle Heller was able to convince him to do it.
“He came in and immediately called me ‘boss,’ ” shetold PEOPLElast week. “He knows I’m setting the tone and he’s respectful of letting that be the case even though he’s Tom Hanks, which is just amazing.”
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“I’ve said in a soundbite kind of way that ‘America’s dad is playing America’s dad’ and Hanks and Rogers emanate the same feeling from people,” his costar Matthew Rhys told PEOPLE. “But they are two very different people. Tom is incredibly fast, sharp-witted, humorous in that lightning-quick way and he moves and talks very differently from Fred Rogers.”
“It was an embodiment and an essence,” added Rhys. “And when you see the transformation, you realize that wily old fox, Hanks, has gone and done it again.”
source: people.com
