How "Here" brought Tom Hanks and Robin Wright together again

Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, who first starred together in "Forrest Gump" 30 years ago, are reuniting successful nan caller movie "Here," directed by "Forrest Gump" head Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth. 

The movie follows a couple, Richard and Margaret Young, done emotion and nonaccomplishment successful nan aforesaid surviving room complete decades, capturing nan improvement of their lives and nan families that follow.

Shot wholly from nan aforesaid camera angle, nan movie captures changes successful nan lives of its characters and nan transformations successful nan world outside.

"This really is simply a meditation successful passing, everything passes. And nan only changeless we person successful our life is change," Wright said, describing Zemeckis' imagination for really 1 spot evolves complete generations. "Which is what we each experience. So I deliberation everyone will subordinate to 1 facet aliases 12 successful this movie," she said.

Hanks and Wright said they were eager to activity together again connected specified an different project. 

"When Bob [Zemeckis] mentioned getting nan set backmost together, I was like, yes, for sure," Wright said. "And he's like, this has ne'er been done before. I said, let's go, let's return nan ride. We person specified religion successful him because his imagination is beautiful incredible."

Hanks said nan film's attack required a caller style of acting, pinch short scenes showing nan characters astatine various stages of their lives. 

"We were making jokes erstwhile we were doing it because a batch of these scenes, they only past for illustration 2 minutes or, you know, and our occupation was to make them arsenic lively arsenic imaginable and existent arsenic possible. And I said, well, look, if, look, if it gets boring, Bob will conscionable person a stegosaurus locomotion by nan window," Hanks said.

The movie uses subtle integer effects to show Hanks and Wright astatine different ages, pinch scenes that create a consciousness of clip passing. 

"It was some unusual and profound to watch myself spell done different life stages connected screen," Hanks said.

Wright and Hanks said nan beingness demands of portraying young, energetic characters successful their 60s were challenging. In a lighthearted infinitesimal during nan interview, they reenacted a segment by jumping from their seats, pretending to beryllium teenagers. "We had to bring youthful power to each take, which was harder than it sounds!" Wright said.

Reflecting connected what he hopes audiences return away, Hanks said, "I dream they spot themselves ... I spell to nan movies, nary matter nan gender of nan characters aliases nan civilization that it's changeable at, I wanna spot immoderate facet of my ain struggles up location because erstwhile I do, it's like, I'm going done that aforesaid nonstop thing." 

"Here" comes retired connected Nov. 1, 2024.

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