The one role Tom Hanks said "no way" will he ever take on | 60 Minutes Australia

now I'm no expert on these things but Tom Hanks is hardly a sex symbol he's no Brad Pitt you never hear about him getting drunk making a fool of himself or having lurid love affairs you never see him at all in the gossip Max even he admits he's a bit of a nerd yet somehow he's made an extraordinary career out of being very ordinary his movies have made billions just the name Tom Hanks in big letters on the Billboards can guarantee success in fact he's the biggest earner of them all add a couple of oscars and other assorted accolades and who said nice guys don't come first it's a big night for Tom Hanks we're in Tokyo at the premiere of his latest Blockbuster and Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy is working the line I'm going to talk to the number one show he sticks to the script do I remember this man polite and Charming until he reaches me Liam you're on the road again on the red carpet pretty glamorous isn't it I don't know how you do it really you know your face is everywhere people are looking at you every movie photographers all around you've got a fake sincerity up and down the line I really I don't know how you do it the fake sincerity thing well I'm a professional Liam I I think I've faced my sincerity very well and he's been thinking you like me I know you're a very pleasant guy I got nothing against you I don't know you that well you haven't pissed me off yet so you know yeah we'll wait we'll wait we got years to go you get the impression it'll be pretty hard to irritate Tom Hanks he might be the biggest movie star on the planet but there are no heirs or Graces he's a very very rare star funny intelligent and absolutely squeaky clean now there's got to be some dirt somewhere no I I wish it was an image I wish it was something I could I could drop but you asked me I'll tell you the truth I don't lie well help me out here all right okay what do you need let's dig some dirt eat some dirt okay I floss my teeth I have lost my teeth every day for like the last seven years can you believe that yeah that's not sounding scandalous well no it's not a scandal but when that what that means is I never floss my teeth once for the previous uh uh you know 43 years or whatever it is um I uh you've got nothing I can't I got nothing this is my dad his name's Sam Scandal or no Scandal the fact is he's been extraordinarily successful my mom always said life was like a box of chocolates his movies have pulled in more than four billion dollars at the box office and made him one of Hollywood's wealthiest actors put it away they're too close together you don't have a clear shot yes I do look this room at a rest if you will one way or the other but the word is that from your new movie Angels and Demons yeah you will be the highest paid actor Ever some 50 million us which translates to what about 70 million Australian is that true is it true I it could be I'm not saying an ace well I suppose it's the same question I'd ask a Wall Street Banker I mean is anyone worth that much no no they're not I'm not uh but at the same time it's a frivolous business at the end of the day because it's all supply and demand if if it does well then I I make a I make a nice tasty piece of cake it's true can't lie whether or not I anybody deserves it look cops deserve that money School teachers deserve that money um people who you know you know run food banks they deserve that money and I'd like to think what I wake up in the morning and and uh and do my part in order to make the world a better place Tom's World these days is very different to where he began his parents divorced when he was just four years old Tom and his five siblings had a chaotic childhood traveling from place to place as his dad and stepmother chased work so with all those brothers and sisters and stepbrothers and stepsisters you still had a fairly lonely childhood to do I discovered in a good way my my preoccupation with sort of like stories and art or whatever creativity you can call it when you're eight or nine or ten years old was a good combat for for loneliness you know I developed a real great attachment for going to school I like school other kids will cut school I thought school was kind of a great place there was action there but I knew something was going down there that would generate some sort of a laugh or some sort of a routine or I would belong to something bigger than myself how long have YouTube dressing up like women The Loner had found his talent making people laugh his early work was mostly forgettable but then came a guest spot on Happy Days starring Ron Howard now one of Hollywood's top directors [Applause] when you first met Tom you were still Richie Cunningham well I was as a matter of fact you're next and uh Tom had done this very flashy uh guest shot on the show and uh and and everybody fell in love with him and invited him to come on the uh to this one softball game I remember sitting next to him and just saying hello and um it wasn't more than I think an 18 months or two years later that I was casting him in in splash got him his first Big Break yeah he was he was going places uh because he's really a unique talent [Music] it was the start of a long and productive partnership for Hanks and Howard the unlikely looking Duo went on to make Apollo 13. Houston we have a problem and the second biggest grossing movie of all time The Da Vinci Code it is and have just teamed up for a fourth time for its sequel Angels and Demons Tom says she admits he was a bit of a geek bit of a nerd you had a reputation at one stage for being a bit of a nerd you've got together over the years huge number of awards and millions and millions of dollars the Nerds really have had their Revenge haven't they well we found projects that uh that uh that we could uh that we could do and I think that look that sort of fascination with detail is what makes a nerd and that Obsession for detail runs deep oh there we are hello we know you have a very unusual Hobby collection of all types oh be careful now all right so we've we've found something reasonably rare in Australia that we'd like to add a typewriter that's right the world's most bankable star has a collection of more than 80 antique typewriters this is just you know somebody's junky old portable that was taking up space in their closet that's one thing but this is if this is an actual heirloom an object of art a piece of historical importance you're going to intimidate you're going to intimidate man let me let me here we go are we ready I hope you haven't done did it oh dear lord now here let me tell you about this typewriter now you'll notice the it's a Corona Corona three but this is no ordinary Corona typewriter it was owned by the legendary actor Richard Harris and dates back to 1912. get out yeah yeah and when he died I don't deserve that he went to his wife his wife sold it as it turned out to a fellow in Australia and now we've we've brought it back here for you you guys should never have done this you're wasting your time I don't deserve to own Richard Harris's except you've got a coffee mug much less is it and I can almost get the I can almost get the paper in well let's try it out anyway let's see let's see then all right not all right I probably screwed it up somehow but this is a treasure and I will treasure it for you I hope you like it so thank you very much his sedite hobby is a world away from his on-screen heroics you called me in his latest religious whodunit hanks's character Robert Langdon has just four hours to save the Vatican from destruction kind of annihilation how violent event it's very far pitched but typically he doesn't take it too seriously Vatican City will be consumed by light it's wild yeah but it's not accurate is it the the Robert Langdon series oh they're they're a bunch of hooey there's no amount of antimatter is going to blow up Rome you know it's as simple as that there's a scene of you in the movie in a pair of Speedos now I want to know was that a body double no that was absolutely me I volunteered for my non-american swimming apparel I wanted to look like one of those Australian uh uh lifeguards you know what are they called Sluggers Sluggers okay all right has Daniel Craig seen that yet and is he worried man oh man you know I made I worked with Danny Craig back when he was just Danny Craig and uh I don't want to embarrass him but you know the workout regimen once you take on that gig your life becomes the workout you realize that don't you you like if there's another Langdon movie I only have between now and the moment we're happy to that to avoid exercise because as soon as I go on the clock guess where I am I'm back in the pool I'm back in that Speedo trying to look like a slugger yeah unlike so many Hollywood stars Toms never really enjoyed the spotlight when the camera stops rolling he spends every minute with his family his four kids and wife of 22 years it's like a movie actress Rita Wilson who is starred alongside in Sleepless in Seattle that's a chick's movie Rita Wilson is the most fantastic creature on the planet simple as that we've made most of the you know mistakes that anybody can make but at the same time we've we're always in it for the writer there's no secret to this other than marrying the right person that's it that's the only thing that is required you once said that Rita saved your life what do you mean by that well she gave me a brand a type of social Grace I didn't understand my family um is a fractured one you know Rita it comes from she is a she's she's Greek she comes from a family that has a lot of Heritage a family that that is used to seeing each other all the time that really can't live without siding up to each other every now and and saying how to do it and I didn't realize that was an option I didn't realize that that was something that you could like make happen until I married Rita Wilson that's a love story in itself better than any of your scripts oh it is it is and that's why you know it's why are there not why are no they're not movies about 21 year old marriages you know it's always about it's the same old thing it's always about fall in love Fallen it's always like Boy Meets Girl boy loses girl you know boy gets girl but you it the happily ever after is always Ever After ladies and gentlemen Tom Hanks [Music] there's something very decent and proper about Tom Hanks he's an actor with a social conscience fellow citizens we cannot Escape history he was one of President Obama's most high-profile supporters and looked so at ease at the inauguration ceremony many wondered if a political career was beckoning that this nation under God shall have a new birth of Freedom you'll run eventually won't you no it's the ultimate Trifecta Reagan Schwarzenegger Hanks see here's the thing Ronald Reagan they stopped giving him jobs but I'm not a I'm not a political animal but I am a I am I pay attention to the cultural Zeitgeist that's going on and politics is a big part of it particularly when hey man your country is at War you know and it is for eight years and there's so much important stuff that's going on I pay attention to it but I don't try to influence any more than my own opinions fans will be relieved to hear that Tom is sticking to acting but his days are playing the fresh-faced big kid are firmly behind it next thing you know you're 52. get in a good way you know wink of an eye all right and you know you don't even I'm not even you're not even reminded of how old you are until you see those clips from a long time ago they say who's that kid oh that's me son of a gun there is of course one role where Tom never ages where any imperfection can be erased in a second and there seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere hello Tom's back for the third part of the Toy Story Juggernaut next year sorry how my name that's what you've been doing for the past 10 years well professional responsibility tells me that I should keep it as cryptic as possible so I would say that I let's just say come on let's say that there's a are the toys going to be sent to the attic or not let's leave it at that oh that's a how about that but you like kids movies don't you well I like movies that everybody can relate to you know when the young when the dad and the mom can appreciate it on one level and everybody else can see it on their own level as well I think that's what the great all the great films have been able to do so Mr nosco we've come full circle I can't help it so you leave me with no dirt there's no Scandal nothing but wait till you get my the typewritten letter that I'm going to send to you it's going to be it's going to have foul language and it's going to have the confessions on paper that I will not give you on uh on on video but you'll get it all you'll get it all I can help you win hello I'm Tara Brown thanks for watching 60 Minutes Australia subscribe to our Channel now for brand new stories and exclusive Clips every week and don't miss out on our extra minute segments and full episodes of 60 Minutes on nine now.com and the nine Now app

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Length: 14min 41sec (881 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 05 2023