Tom Hanks - Letterman - 2015.05.18

well I'm gonna bet it does first guest is a two-time Academy Award winner and one of the biggest movie stars on the planet please welcome the extremely talented the always entertaining America's Sweetheart Tom Hanks thank you thank you thank you very much nice ride there has been a line of two-time Oscar winners outside this theater for the last month and a half we've been hoping that there'll be room on these two very very lucky and thank or you guys I know you're busy right now working on a film yet another time flew in from time zone so far away Dave it has a money that I can't pronounce yes now yeah I happen to know that you're working with your good friend or Ron huh Ron Howard we're he's a pivotal part as the director in giving stage instructs yesterday do the film this is miles a lot of it will be a CGI and edit heater generator I this the fifth time I've worked with Ron it's another Robert Langdon in DaVinci Code and ruler called inferno or I'd give us at a safe and cool yeah I'm not but I'm not I'm not I'm not bugging my future film no we'll leave that to those other lesser shows off you know you can do anything you like anything you like but Ron the Rhonda this is the third one and Ron is a genius I love working with this guy he's I'm inspired by him he's also a peer he was Opie he was Richie he he told the world to eat my dust in a movie a long time ago and we had a very very competent Felicity Jones who was a wonderful actress and we had a very I call them hairy scenes scenes that have a lot going on right before we shoot them in the story and a lot going on afterwards and for about five hours you have to be very focused very intense and very on every moment of these things that's about it last about two minutes the dialogue is important the story's one more point the emotionality of it is very important and it's not easy to sustain but luckily with Ron Howard he keeps us going in crisis and it's got to be there on the screen if it's not you've wasted everybody's time and which you might know a couple of things so I don't know we just go back to the piling on he'll get herself good so so we had we have a first ad on Bill Conner who I call bull based on a historical guy but and Bill Conner was calling out the important cues because we are chased by malevolent helicopter drones in this in this bit of the movie and they had to fly around and they threatened us and they they go and they come back and they hover and then they go away and then they come back we always have to know when that was going because we were we had to look and bill who announces everything with the same exact cadence alright we're ready to go thank you please first team thank you alright let's do that again everybody first team again thank you it doesn't matter what's going on he speaks in the same kind of monotonous airport voice you know right before I said bill bill look I love you but Ron could could you give us a little juice on this because the helicopter had to hover and go away and then come back and threaten us you're reacting and something that's not believable Lissy and I need some yeah we need some we need some Joe Joe there you know so so Ron God okay okay okay okay okay all right so say ready rolling in action and we run in and we start doing our dialog and it's very intense and then from off-camera here drone hovering hovering and he's looking at the monitor right this so we're right there and so hovering round they came back it's gone that was bad hovering and we did this visit this we were we were suited in we were shooting in Florence which according to my talking points that have been provided to me by the marketing departments Florence Italy is the birthplace of the Renaissance so we were shooting there they give us these we were shooting at a very famous place the the Palazzo Vecchio which the Medicis lived in and so and they still open to the tourists so tourists from all over the world are hearing this echo throughout this ancient Palace robbery drugs you see them they're gone so we did this for like we did it for like a tree with it but this would be really something exciting and see this is without dog sucking such a jerk day because this will be a great moment in the movie yes provided no one has seen this bit on your feet on it'll be even because I'm actually according to the talking points at the marketing department gave me rule number one is do not ridicule the movie URM so and I here I'm arguing all ready to go there back there back there back oh my god ring let me right back you know 84 you and I you and I got to know each other about the seventh time I did your show cuz we bumped into each other in the makeup room so he actually said something to me that wasn't on a blue card which I really appreciate that we can go back a lose it there's a great story and I don't know if I've heard it from you before but I but I know that this story your uh your nascent part of your career you're in Los Angeles like so many others yes you're working but yet you don't have money because you just started work I we had I left New York City in my apartment and we were staying in the-- i'd made the pilot for Bosom Buddies we were staying in a fabulous if you know LA thank you we were living in the Oakwood Garden Apartments on Barham Boulevard right buildings only doesn't you know would that be and the actors went on strike in the summer of 1980 so I made the pilot and I had this job but we we were not working the town was was shut down and it hadn't been for Peter Scolari god blessing left me with his car because he'd gone back to New York so I had his car I had paid up my furnished apartment for a while my son Colin was about three but eventually got down to like our last hundred and eighty bucks and there's still no into the strike ins insight and one day just for the sake of getting out of the friggin house we went to the carousel in Griffith Park which happened to be boarded up because it was out of season so fate is conspiring again you know I got a kid we don't have any money the carousel was boarded up so for fun we rolled down the grass Hill one just find for a kid yes alright and I you know two or three times a little nausea were pretty much done there's not much else to do so we start heading back to the car and a guy had gone into a public restroom and changed out of his work clothes and was in his running outfit and he had his clothes on a hanger his pants in a jacket and we're I'm following the path back to the parking lot I see that unmistakable wad of green you know the green talking about money you see that little bit that's a agree not found anywhere in nature except by the US Treasury yeah so I scoop up what is a wad of bills and I have no idea it was 60 bucks it was three $20 bills and I said to the guy excuse me but I think you dropped something from your pants and he looked at me he said I didn't drop nothing from my pants and I said no no no I just found something and I'm pretty sure it fell out of your pants and there on that hanger right now well and he said no I don't think anything fell on my pants and I finally said look guy these this is 60 bucks and it came obviously out of your pass because you just changed now he looked at he looked at us and we had been rolling down a hill of grass I'm wearing more or less the same clothes I bought when I went to junior college and we look like we live in the park not that we're just staying there and so he said to me man I couldn't sleep tonight if I took that money so I'll only think so we took the $60 this was in this was in September we had about another four weeks of the strike left it was in September and I took that $60 winter Ralph's bought about a week's worth of groceries and two copies of the TV Guide that had my picture in it along with Peter Scolari Wow as the stars of the new hit ABC sitcom that's delight boys and buddies absolutely but you remember those days yeah rounding for jokes yes I remember that was when you were you had just been fired from the morning show that was a dead song right now yeah like 80 yeah under gravity 988 but yours where yours was the only 90 minutes or an hour that we had during those bleak bleak days as you must have known from watching that it was gonna be short-lived that it was gonna be a short run I just I just didn't see the housewives begging at 9:00 and I just I just didn't see that acerbic prank you know if you had if you would if you never yell to get it just held up a box of Calgon bath oil beads and said that's very funny thank you so much share you know mom when you've had a tough game you know what breaks the tension or has a nice hot bath with Calgon bath oil beans we'll be right back out and then you might even know what is good you could have stayed on ice to be on now you could and then you can move right from that into hosting concentration now you know I heard this and then I heard it wasn't true and now at apparently history that the landmark iconic toy store in Manhattan FAO in a week this is going to is gone is it going this my understanding fao schwarz on Fifth Avenue is is now the rent is too expensive and so they're moving this is where we shot the piano dance in big yeah uh I gotta tell you how there I'm miss rattling off on my credits tonight just like they I don't know another but these are these this is the stuff of our lives we spend a whole day in there and I can how is that place going out of business I have not walked in on fao schwarz in my life and not walked out with 280 bucks worth of merchandise that's right just you just keep buying backup I remember buying Jar Jar Binks merchandise in there for my pin I mean that that's what a sucker you are sometimes when you walk in there but now it's it's closing up and I just pray pray that the new tenant is an old Navy don't you I will it's fashionable fashion affordable fashion that lasts and lasts yeah either that or just by the for space alone Manhattan's largest Chipotle this would be this would be about like an about is great because look I'm going to tell you right I've been down to the village with my wife Greenwich Village they have all the great stores down there that they don't need Midtown they've got the Pottery Barn and the village they've got Whole Foods you know we were just down there winter this really great jazz coffeehouse with a nautical theme my wife and I had some hippy beatnik coffee was called Starbucks it was just it was just so fraught with New York atmosphere and I just did I just hope huh happy jazz club you know you haven't bought Dylan on tomorrow right and I bet you anything probably this is a jet this is the Starbucks coffee house where Bob Dylan sang that amazing song ferocity animator hooter planet I'm gonna blow the scene with a mega car huh you know I saw my wife and I saw Bob Dylan at the El Rey in LA a long time ago and it was fabulous we had no idea what he's saying we had to read we had to read the setlist the next morning in the paper we had no idea I searched really that was all along the watchtower who knew that's a show I did not know and you mentioned you mentioned your wife I know she's here do you mind if we just say hi to my lovely look at that you'll want to join us tomorrow de Morgan's Bill Murray I have a bad feeling about the move I don't think my home iguana will get along with my office iguana now day much like much like your audience much like your audience app on Thursday I'm pulling the plug I'm going cutting the choreo TV going off the grid no reason for that idiot box in the seven rooms in my house any longer I could get any seven-minute bit on the under YouTube I could get that on my tits the end of cheap night olicity the NFL is filled with a bunch of cheaters anyway I'm not even I'm not even gonna bond on you-know-what all what I'm taking away from your visit here is the image of that I become cranky no no the image of Ron Howard at his home and he believes there are flying saucers there bad back okay they're gone no not bad hehe staged this one great stunt can I can I okay first of all let me tell you right now um I do my own stunts no you know I do oh come on it's calm here a billion-dollar guy if you get hurt everybody tell you something right now if you if you find a stunt man that says I do Tom Hanks's stunt two things number one he's a liar mm-hm and number two he's fired because anything if you don't think I actually do that I do Raja my own running and I do some of my own driving but it's a dangerous enterprise a car steady cuz they hook you up to other thing you don't like we can we show the clip of this might you have a clip of the new movie I'm let me see how I'm supposed to introduce this it's darn nice for me to do on the back streets of Florence Italy the birthplace of the Renaissance our second and first units blocked off traffic in order to get precious valuable production sequences in an action thriller which we could if we can just show that I love by the way I love the interns that type these talking points up suddenly great where's Gump reading man let's just flesh the forest government's way in now look okay good this is actually our stunt doubles this is the stunt double bouquet all right well now what we have here is something you don't see how this is the INA see not done this is a movie that will be released win in the spring me yeah look look you look at your cell let me find out hold on I got it I got it look for oh look for it sometime in the third quarter of 2016 there you go so here it's a little taste out this wets your appetite that's right yeah Tom Hanks inferno when you see when you're standing when you're standing close enough to see what the doubles are doing huh huh which is about 120 feet yeah those carabiniere EES roar by all those mortar sighs let me tell you something I saw no drones oh that that wasn't the drone see we'll see that again you want to see y'all do all of me add some Ron Howard to it okay okay here you go and okay okay all right let's go back to number one wow that's fantastic oh hey can I get a selfie ya know you know Renee de boletos then we just said read announced when these first came out that we will never ever get a have a selfie stick in the house but you're no way to tell them to oh of course they they sell these selfies all over Florence which was the birthplace of the Renaissance and look I realize that a huge amount of computer space is taken up with such things selfies of ourselves and I think by and large they can be pretty goofy but you got it oh shoot hold on stop tape stop tape stop turn your back I got it but look Dave just I'm going to say you can't see it you in the audience but look at the throw on this baby come on look at that and look I'm going to press this button there we are Dave now can I give you we get it up above the chin above the chair yeah you press it you press a button and out it comes oh wait a minute oh there there it is there it is fantastic that's a beauty so when you in a couple weeks when you head down to I'm just going to guess what you're going to be up to two words Space Camp take one of these bad boys with you know what that is Tom it gives the impression it's almost like someone else has just taken the picture for you which will work for you Dave because it will mean you've been on vacation with a friend I don't need to do that with the screen persona alright ladies and gentlemen I will never be able to repay this man's kindness his generosity and his talent for the world it's our friend Tom Hanks Oh

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Keywords: Tom Hanks, David Letterman, Letterman, Hanks, Rita Wilson, Ron Howard, 2015, May 18, May, Late Show With David Letterman, Late Show

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Length: 21min 24sec (1284 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 08 2015