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.
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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.