Robin Wright not too long ago revealed that she and Tom Hanks by no means actually acquired to know one another whereas engaged on “Forrest Gump” — however that’s not all she has to say about that.
On Monday, she defined to “Today” that the rationale the 2 actors didn’t bond on set was as a result of Hanks — who performed Forrest — was simply too busy, effectively, Forresting.
“We were racing around shooting that movie and every lunch period, Tom was out running, just running wherever they could grab him running, so we didn’t really get to hang out,” she advised the outlet.
Within the 1994 Oscar-winning movie, operating is a big side of Hank’s titular character. As a child, Forrest turns into a runner out of the need to outrun his bullies. As an grownup, he embarks on an epic three-year dash throughout america for “for no particular reason.”
The movie options Hanks operating by oodles of scenic places all through the nation, just like the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina and Monument Valley in Utah and Arizona, per Smithsonian Journal.
And though Hanks and Wright had been distant throughout filming, Wright advised “Today” that they did “get to know each other as adults” after they reunited with “Forrest Gump” director Robert Zemeckis for his or her upcoming film, “Here.”
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“It was literally like getting the band back together,” she mentioned of engaged on the sweeping drama about generations of individuals dwelling on the identical plot of land.
She added of Zemeckis and Hanks: “I would do anything with Bob and Tom.”