Tom Hanks.Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty
While speaking withBBC Newsabout his debut novelThe Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece— which features an actor character who disrupts filming for a production — Hanks, 66, said he has “pulled every single one of those moments of behavior myself on a set.”
“Not everybody is at their best every single day on a motion picture set,” Hanks said. “I’ve had tough days trying to be a professional when my life has been falling apart in more ways than one and the requirement for me that day is to be funny, charming and loving — and it’s the last way I feel.”
Though Hanks admitted to not always behaving well during a film shoot, theForrest Gumpactor noted that the one “cardinal sin” in filmmaking is wasting a production’s time.
“What cannot occur on a motion picture is that someone cannot monkey around with the timing or the length of the shoot or the budget,” he said. “That is a cardinal sin in the motion picture business.”
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Hanks added that the public would be “amazed at how many people know that they can get away with it, and are told they can get away with it, because they are carrying the movie on their shoulders.”
The actor’s novel features characters who are described as “cry-babies” and “psychological train wrecks” within its story, which revolves around the production of a major superhero movie, according to BBC News.
Hanks laughed off questions regarding specific film industry figures who may have inspired the novel’s story, according to the outlet.
According to aPenguin Random Housesynopsis of the book,Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiecetakes place in three distinct parts and follows a comic book’s development from its inception in the late 1940s to publication in the ’70s before a major Hollywood director “decides to turn it into a contemporary superhero movie.”
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Hanks' new book comes after he appeared in three movies over 2022, includingElvis, Disney’s live-action adaptation ofPinocchio, andA Man Called Otto.
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpieceis now available wherever books are sold.
source: people.com
