00:00Just stepping right back, no time had passed.
00:02None.
00:02Remember that conversation we almost finished 25 years ago?
00:06Yeah.
00:06So anyway, the end of it is.
00:07Yeah.
00:08It was just so luxurious, the luxury of ease.
00:13Does that make sense of saying?
00:15Yeah.
00:15No getting to know you, you know.
00:19No, I don't like that person I have to work with for the new format, right?
00:23You're going to say it like that?
00:24OK, all right.
00:26You could spend the rest of the night here.
00:34I could spend the rest of my life here.
00:36Tom Hanks and Robin Wright are reuniting on screen three decades
00:40after Forrest Gump, alongside director Robert Zemeckis for the film Here.
00:45It just happened.
00:46I mean, Bob came to you.
00:48Yeah.
00:48I just love working with Tom, and we've worked together so many times.
00:53And we have a shorthand of working.
00:55We know how each other thinks.
00:56Then how about Robin?
00:58She immediately said she'd love to do it, so it was great.
01:01I mean, my first two choices.
01:03Eric Roth.
01:04Eric Roth.
01:05He wrote Forrest Gump.
01:06And Eric Roth wrote it.
01:08Let's get the whole band.
01:09It was sublime.
01:10Here shows life over generations, framed through the living room
01:13of a home, the entire film taking place within that single space.
01:17Based on the graphic novel of the same name, Here took on the role
01:20Based on the graphic novel of the same name, Here took on the unique
01:24challenges demanded for cinematic craft of a single frame film.
01:27We were talking about how to tell a story in essentially
01:31a tableau cinematic style.
01:34It turned out to be, we think, the hardest movie that I ever made.
01:37Everything, every single scene had to work perfectly and flawlessly
01:43within this one single view.
01:48And so that view had to be designed to accommodate absolutely everything.
01:53No coverage.
01:54That was the most fun.
01:56You had to nail it in one take.
01:58No matter how many times.
01:59No matter how many times we had to do the take.
02:01We had to get it right.
02:03And then there's stuff.
02:03You've got to hit marks.
02:04You've got to be in a very specific place and all that.
02:08But I think that became the luxury that we got to do,
02:11because we knew that we were it.
02:13So we just had to make it live right there
02:16and have it be real enough in order to make the scene work.
02:20I saw it as very cinematic.
02:24It was a movie that I knew would be very compelling to watch
02:31if my vision of it were able to be realized.
02:34In the middle of shooting the movie, I realized
02:38I probably could not have made this movie as a novice director.
02:42I think I needed to have so many movies under my belt
02:45before I could understand what all the possible pitfalls might
02:50have been in making this movie.
02:52The film shows one space over thousands of years,
02:54but spends most of its time in the 20th and 21st centuries,
02:58following Tom Hanks and Robin Wright's characters,
03:00capturing a wide range of relatable life experiences.
03:04Hey, Dad.
03:05I came to meet Margaret.
03:07Nice to meet you, Margaret.
03:08It was hilarious when I, as I was reading the script,
03:13I'm figuring out, oh, I'm Tom Hanks's dad.
03:17It's sort of amazing to be able to do that now with technology
03:24and really believe it.
03:26And we were doing our first scene together,
03:29and it was me chewing him out, and he's 18 years old.
03:33And boy, it was just feeling weird to chew out Tom Hanks.
03:38And then we went back, and we looked at the playback.
03:41And it's young 18-year-old Tom Hanks.
03:44I have to jump up off the couch like a 19-year-old kid.
03:49There's a lot of jumping up off the couches on this thing.
03:52And you've got to have energy, and you've
03:54got to have some degree of flexibility.
03:57That's one of the things.
03:58The physical part of it is right there, and it's undeniable.
04:02But then comes the more interesting stuff,
04:04like when we're middle-aged, when we're 35, and we're burdened,
04:07and we're tired, and we've got to put the kids to bed.
04:10That's a whole different thing.
04:12Because the look was the look.
04:14I mean, you know, it was wow.
04:16Every time we go, Tom Hanks' news is captured.
04:25Here opens today, exclusively in theaters.
04:28This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
04:30We lived here.
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