Tom Hanks has been in some of cinema’s most popular films, but he isn’t a fan of them all.
Among many others, the 66-year-old has appeared in Cast Away, The Green Mile, Elvis, the Terminal, and A Man Called Otto.
He’s also won two Oscars for best actor for his roles in Forrest Gump and Philadelphia, as well as a slew of other honours over his lengthy career, despite having ‘difficult days’ on certain sets.
However, he was challenged about prior statements he made implying he takes offence at the thought of somebody ‘disliking’ a movie in an interview with the New Yorker.
‘Okay, let’s admit this: We all have seen movies that we hate,’ the Hollywood icon said. ‘I have been in some movies that I hate. You have seen some of my movies and you hate them.’
While he did not specify the specific projects he was unhappy with, Tom noted that there are five ‘Rubicon’ milestones in each project, including the choice to take on the position, visiting to see it after it is finished, and how successful it is.
He announced that the fifth Rubicon is ‘time,’ referring to the 1946 film It’s A Wonderful Life, which became a cult classic years after its debut.
‘For me, it happened on a movie that I wrote and directed called “That Thing You Do!” I loved making that movie,’ the actor recalled. ‘I loved writing it, I loved being with it. I love all the people in it. When it came out, it was completely dismissed by the first wave of vox populi.
‘It didn’t do great business. It hung around for a while, was viewed as being some sort of odd, quasi-ripoff of nine other different movies and a nice little stroll down memory lane.
‘Now the same exact publications that dismissed it in their initial review called it “Tom Hanks’s cult classic, That Thing You Do!” So now it’s a cult classic. What was the difference between those two things? The answer is time.’
When asked if he knows a movie is going to be excellent while filming, Tom said, ‘No. Because the procedure is so sluggish, there is no way to tell. And so precise. There is just faith and hope – and what is more important than faith and hope? You have to entrust the entire process to colleagues who you hope will be at the top of their game later on.’
Despite his numerous cinematic appearances throughout the years, the actor recently expressed his displeasure that one of his major ventures is barely recognised.
Tom played Michael Sullivan in the 2002 thriller Road To Perdition, which follows an assassin on the run after his kid witnesses his boss’s death, and finds his character divided between being faithful to his work and rescuing his own child.
Appearing on the Reelblend podcast, he said: ‘For one reason or another, no one references Road to Perdition, and that was an incredibly important movie for me to go through.
‘It was shot by Conrad Hall, and you have me in it, Don Moustache with a hat on it, but you also have two guys who turned out to be two of the biggest motion picture presences in the history of the industry with Jude [Law] and Daniel [Craig]. And I killed both of them…
‘People always say, “What movies will they be talking about years from now?”
‘As a guy who watches Turner Classic Movies a lot, the more obscure and unknown a movie from 1940s or 1950s the better, because I have no preconceived notions about it; I don’t know anything about it.
‘When you watch those movies and it’s crackerjack and it’s incredibly moving, all I can think of is, “I’m so glad this movie lasts forever, so I got a chance to revisit it now.” That might be the case with Road To Perdition.’
Source My Celebrity Life.
