Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson Discuss Real-Time De-Aging Technology for 'Here' | Academy Museum Gala 2024 - video Dailymotion

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Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson, who are the trustee and governor of the Academy, discuss their involvement in the creation of the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, which has become a significant cultural hub for movie lovers. They also discuss the groundbreaking de-aging technology used in Hank's upcoming film, 'Here,' which would allow the actors to see younger versions of themselves immediately on set through a special monitor.

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00:00You guys are heavily involved in the museum, right?

00:03Yeah, she is a current trustee.

00:06I'm a governor of the Academy.

00:09I'm the governor of the Actors Branch along with Marlee Matlin and Lou Diamond Phillips.

00:14I was a governor when this was not even on the drawing board yet.

00:19I was involved in the saying this must happen because it's going to be a natural resource for the city of Los Angeles.

00:28And any visitor who loves movies, who comes to Los Angeles because of movies they've seen, will come to this building and see what we've got.

00:36And now a couple years in, I mean, what have you kind of seen the value of it?

00:39It's so incredible.

00:41This is the fourth.

00:42Wow, really?

00:44The museum is incredible.

00:45I mean, it's really been a success in so many ways.

00:51And I just think there's so many more exciting things that are coming down the road for it.

00:56So, yeah, it's a great addition to our city.

01:00When the metro station is finished, this area is going to be unlike any other part of the city as well.

01:10There's the new Lackawas coming in.

01:12There's museums galore.

01:13There's the Academy.

01:15There's the Peterson.

01:16It's really going to be a place you'll be able to come here and stay all day long.

01:21And it's a museum.

01:22You don't have to buy, you know, you don't have to buy parking or, you know, a general admission ticket.

01:27You just come.

01:29And you've got here coming out.

01:32Not if you take the metro.

01:35Oh, if you take the metro.

01:36Yeah, yeah.

01:37You've got here coming out.

01:38What did you think when Robert Zemeckis came to you with that idea?

01:43We sit around and talk all the time.

01:46So that he, we were, we're always trying to figure out how can we bust this thing really wide open.

01:54And I asked a question about a particular type of cinematic narrative.

02:03And he said, funny you should ask that question, Tom.

02:06And he had the graphic novel that it was based on, written in 1986, which I couldn't understand the first three times I read it.

02:14But then he also had the screenplay that he and Eric Roth had written on.

02:18So it wasn't so much of, hey, Tom, would you do this thing?

02:23It's like, as Bob said, so what do you think?

02:26I think we should try this?

02:28And we throw ourselves in.

02:30And then after that, it was just, so it's a, it's a great, it's a great hang.

02:34And it's a very challenging working environment.

02:37Bob, Bob can't do anything that's been done before.

02:40So we're throwing deep, baby.

02:42What did you think when you saw the de-aging?

02:45The de-aging.

02:46Well, there's been versions of that.

02:48The technology and the tool that's used here, the difference is we see it in literally real time.

02:56That's what I thought was pretty incredible.

02:58When you're on set, you have a monitor, which is what they're filming and capturing in that moment.

03:03But right next to that monitor is another monitor, and that is the de-aging monitor that you see happening in real time.

03:11So you see Tom in his makeup or whatever, but then immediately next to it, it's already, he's younger.

03:19You don't have to wait for six months of, you know, pre-production.

03:23But don't think that we didn't go through prolonged hair and makeup in order to get there.

03:28We, we went through, you, they have to move our ears.

03:32They have to do stuff to our skin.

03:34We have to have a very, very particular camera ready everything because the expense comes in the skin.

03:42Because you have a tool that literally reads the pores of your skin and matches that up to a thousand.

03:48So what it is, is it's just a great tool.

03:53That's it.

03:53That same sort of tool as spirit gum and crepe hair and, you know, putty noses that utilizes that,

04:00but then takes it to a next kind of level.

04:03Yeah, it's pretty cool.

04:04Thank you so much.

04:05Thank you, Hollywood Report.

Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson Discuss Real-Time De-Aging Technology for 'Here' | Academy Museum Gala 2024

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