Life is like a box of chocolates… and perhaps like red-orange fireballs streaking across the sky.
Tom Hanksbelieves the success ofForrest Gumpwas written in the stars.
The moment just might’ve foreshadowed the film’s success, said Hanks.
Tom Hanks in ‘Forrest Gump’.Paramount Pictures/ Courtesy: Everett
“Were down in Beaufort.
Were staying on Fripp Island, very historic kind of place,” recalled Hanks.
“We had like 10 days before we started shooting this cuckoo movie.”
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At the time, the actor had “never seen a meteor in my life,” he said.
So I don’t think were going to see anything."
But then: “Oh my god!”
“It looked like the head of a match that you had just struck.
We just saw something that was otherworldly.”
Hanks stars opposite Wright in the film directed by Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Roth.
“We get together,” said the actor.
“We talk all the time.
Sometimes we talk about movies, sometimes we talk about dreams and hopes and our fears.”
Watch Hanks' chat with Meyers in full above.
