Tom Hanks on Paying for Portions of 'Forrest Gump' Production | THR News - video Dailymotion

Tom Hanks recently opened up about some of the issues the production faced while making the 1994 classic 'Forrest Gump.'

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00:00Well, the studio just said, we can't afford it, you're not going to do it.

00:04Tom Hanks is saying he paid for part of the production on Forrest Gump out of his own pocket.

00:08Speaking on In Depth with Graham Bensinger for an interview posted Wednesday,

00:12Hanks opened up about some of the issues the production faced while making the 1994 classic

00:17Forrest Gump, revealing that he and director Robert Zemeckis both paid for scenes to be shot

00:21in the movie when Paramount tightened the purse strings. One of the scenes was the classic run

00:25across the country that Gump does in the middle of the film. Paramount said it was too expensive

00:30and could not be shot, even though Zemeckis argued it was crucial. When the studio did not budge,

00:35Zemeckis went to Hanks and told him he needed Hanks to trust him and back him.

00:39This run is going to cost X amount of dollars, and it wasn't cheap.

00:45Hanks said he agreed and the two went to Paramount explaining they could provide the money,

00:48but that the studio would have to share the profits a little bit more, to which the studio agreed.

00:52But the actor said he had to front money again in another instance during the film

00:56when they needed insurance coverage due to the weather while shooting a particular scene.

01:01Bob and I said, well, we'll cover the insurance, and we did.

01:05Ultimately, those decisions earned Hanks an estimated $65 million when the film became a

01:09blockbuster. To watch the full interview, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News,

01:14I'm Neha Joy.