Hey there, it's Shemita here. I am still out on maternity leave, but here's a special episode

for you from our archives. A guest who needs no introduction. Hope you enjoy.

Hi, Tom. It's really nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you over the glories of Zoom.

I'm looking forward to talking about your book, which I read.

I want you to know.

I read and really enjoy it.

Isn't funny how that you have to make that announcement sometimes. Hey listen I'm going to talk about your movie which I saw. This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Shemeeth Abasu. Today, Tom Hanks on what it movies for almost 50 years, but if you ask him he's not the star or at least not the only star of the show

The making of the movie is not about some individual vision. It's not even about the

laser-like attention of the director or the screenwriter or anybody in it. That movie

is made by an awful lot of people who, using their expertise and their taste and their, you know, their practice

talents, solve one problem after another.

This is the foundational idea behind Tom Hanks' debut novel called The Making of Another Major Motion Picture

masterpiece.

It tells the fictional but based on some truth story of how a multi-million dollar

superhero movie gets made. Literally every part of it. The comic book that

inspires the movie, the casting of its stars, the grueling days on set.

I caught up with Tom before SAG Aftera, the union that represents actors, decided to strike,

joining the Writers Union.

And although we didn't talk about the strikes

in our conversation, his book is a good reminder

in this moment when Hollywood is in such a state of crisis

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