Tom Hanks and Robin Wright are reuniting onscreen three decades after 'Forrest Gump' alongside director Robert Zemeckis with their new film 'Here.' Hanks and Wright dish on working together once again, plus Zemeckis reveals with THR why this was the "hardest movie" he's ever made.
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.
00:11The luxury of ease.
00:13Does that make sense of saying?
00:15Yeah.
00:15No getting to know you.
00:18You know?
00:19No, I don't like that person I have to work with.
00:22No, not that.
00:23You're going to say it like that?
00:24Okay.
00:25All right.
00:26You could spend the rest of the night here.
00:37I could spend the rest of my life here.
00:39Tom Hanks and Robin Wright are reuniting on screen three decades after Forrest Gump, alongside
00:44director Robert Zemeckis for the film Here.
00:47It just happened.
00:49I mean, Bob came to you.
00:51Yeah.
00:51I just love working with Tom and we've worked together so many times.
00:56And we have a shorthand of working.
00:58We know how each other thinks.
00:59Then how about Robin?
01:01She immediately said she'd love to do it.
01:03So it was great.
01:04I mean, my first two choices.
01:06Eric Roth.
01:07Eric Roth.
01:08Wrote Forrest Gump.
01:09Eric Roth wrote it.
01:11Let's get the whole band.
01:12It was sublime.
01:13Here shows life over generations framed through the living room of a home.
01:17The entire film taking place within that single space.
01:20Based on the graphic novel of the same name, Here took on the unique challenges demanded
01:25for cinematic craft of a single frame film.
01:27We were talking about how to tell a story in essentially a 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 within 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.
02:02You know, and then there's stuff.
02:03You've got to hit marks and you've got to be in a very specific place and all that.
02:07So, but I think that became the luxury that we got to do because we knew that we were it.
02:13So we just had to make it live right there and have it be real enough in order to make the scene work.
02:19I saw it as very cinematic.
02:23It was a movie that I knew would be very compelling to watch if my vision of it were able to be realized.
02:34In the middle of shooting the movie, I realized I probably could not have made this movie as a novice director.
02:42I think I needed to have so many movies under my belt before I could understand what all the possible pitfalls might have been in making this movie.
02:52The film shows one space over thousands of years, but spends most of its time in the 20th and 21st centuries following Tom Hanks and Robin Wright's characters capturing a wide range of relatable life experiences.
03:03Hey, Dad, I could have met Margaret.
03:07Nice to meet you, Margaret.
03:08It was hilarious when I, as I was reading the script and figuring out, oh, I'm Tom Hanks' dad.
03:17It's sort of amazing to be able to do that now with technology and really believe it.
03:26And we were doing our first scene together and 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 and it's young 18-year-old Tom Hanks.
03:44I have to jump up off the couch like a 19-year-old kid.
03:48You know, there's a lot of jumping up off the couches on this thing.
03:52It's like, and you've got to have energy and you've got to have some degree of flexibility.
03:57That's one of the, I mean, the physical part of it is right there and it's undeniable.
04:01But then comes the more interesting stuff, like when we're middle-aged, you know, when we're 35 and we're burdened and we're tired and we, you know, got to put the kids to bed.
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