Important detail
ACCORDING to Tom Hanks (pic), he’ll be removing his beard – which he’s sported for some time now – following the conclusion of a role. But, as evidenced on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last week, some may not be able to recognise him without it.
After Hanks and Kimmel discussed the Sully actor’s recent stint shooting in New Mexico, Kimmel played a clip of three Jeopardy! contestants, in which one woman selected “Biopics” for US$200.
“In A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, beloved children’s TV show host Mr Rogers is played by this beloved actor,” Alex Trebek intoned while a clip of a clean-shaven Hanks as Fred Rogers played. Trebek was met with blank stares and silence.
“... that’s Tom Hanks,” he said.
“You are kidding me!” Hanks exclaimed on Kimmel, shocked. “You are kidding me! They didn’t even have any wrong suggestions?”
Hanks joked that they could have gone with Woody Harrelson or Mahershala Ali.
“What was the name of the category? Washed-up career choices for US$800? Bad casting for US$1,000, Alex?”
Kimmel had a different take, however. “I look at it as you’ve inhabited that character so beautifully that even they were absorbed instantaneously!”
“I’ll take that, I’ll take that, thank you,” Hanks responded. “I think actually they were blinded by the red sweater, couldn’t make anything out.”
Hanks also recounted a story from filming A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A man who joined Hanks in an elevator recognised the actor and asked him about filming the movie. As he was getting off the elevator, he looked back at Hanks while the doors closed and said, “We take Mr Rogers very seriously here in Pittsburgh.”
“His eyes went snake-like for a second and I’m thinking, ‘I believe I’ve been threatened in the City Of Three Rivers,” Hanks said. – Reuters