Movie Economics 101 With "Here" Star Tom Hanks

He doesn't know. You don't listen to him. Hey everybody. I was pretending to tip things off. No, no, no. We were actually having a deep conversation. Don't you dare. Peas and carrots with the peas and the carrots. And I was going red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather. We're back with the star of here, Tom Hanks. Tom, I just found out that there was a famous section of Forrest Gump that was going to get cut. For budgetary reasons. Oh, yeah. And it was like everybody knows this section of it. It was just going to be gone. Some studio executive always comes up and says, It's not going to work. You can't do it. It's not going to work. We don't see the point. Why shoot that? And we, it was essentially, it was Forrest's run across the country. And they said, you're going to have to cut that. Those are all real locations you're at? It was either me or my brother, Jim. We resemble each other quite a bit. He would go to the places with a mini unit. He'd go to North Dakota and stuff like that. And we would go off every weekend. Bob is willing to work this way. We once shot 27 days straight, including getting up and flying in a helicopter and going to Maine or going to a famous lighthouse in North Carolina. And we would just put the whole thing and run all weekend long. But the studio, before we started it, the studio guy said, You're going to have to cut that. And when they found out, they were going to have to cut it. I felt bad. I got this call from my agent. The director, Bob Zemeckis, wants to talk to you. And I thought, I am so fired now. Because when you get that, the director is coming to your house to talk to you, that means you're out, baby. Turns out, you know, somebody else is available. And they didn't want you in the first place. And you're too tall and, you know, all things could go wrong. But Bob came out and he said, Tom, Tom, I cannot, I cannot, I cannot, I cannot make a movie without the star of the movie as my soul mate. So you and I have to be joined at the hip to all of this. So we worked out this thing. We said, Okay, this is actually a movie, Movie Economics 101. We said, we, I said, Well, what do you want to do, Bob? He said, I think we should pay for this sequence ourselves. Let's knock money out of our salary and we will pay for it ourselves. And it was a lot of money. So we split it right down the middle. And we said, Well, we'll take it out of our salary, but we'll make them give it back to us in points on the back end. Can you guys just sample a ka-ching sound over there somehow? That would be it. But that's, you know, that's the way Bob thinks. You sacrifice everything for a thematic truth that you're going. We've got to take another little break here. But if you'll stay and you'll stay, we'll be right back with more Tom Hanks. I'm not going anywhere.