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A Metaphor for Life
Hanks is no novice at playing a captain, most notably in 2013’s
Captain Phillips, about the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship
Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates, and his role as astronaut Jim Lovell in 1995’s Apollo 13.
He’s most drawn, he says, to roles about professionals who choose to go into a line of work not able to imagine doing anything else, and then at one point have all of their experience and expertise tested.
“That’s a metaphor for life, you know? It’s not that fate put them in this place that made them heroes. It’s actually all of their experience, their particular persona and drive that got them to the place where they know what to do when the time comes,” Hanks says. “It’s the guy who will say, ‘No, unable—can’t land at LaGuardia or Teterboro. Follow me. Listen to what I’m saying. Brace, brace, brace.’
“Sully would say, ‘You know who the heroes are? The guys who dropped everything and drove their boats to save people from falling in the water and hypothermia.’ But Sully did almost a superhuman thing—calm, easy, confident, no assurance that it was going to be successful. That is something else.”