Tom Hanks

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Tom Hanks (Pinocchio, Forrest Gump, Cast Away) is an actor and filmmaker. Tom joins the Armchair Expert to discuss what his approach was playing a beloved Disney character, what he loves most about making movies, and how he tries to remember everyone he meets. Tom and Dax talk about the effect Tom's films have had on pop culture, what working with Robert Zemeckis is like, and what it's like to see your own billboards. Tom explains how he used to tell time by what was on television, how amazed he is with what technology can create on screen, and what it's like to be at a dinner party with him. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert, I'm to act shepherd and I'm looking across from me and there's nothing but a sad empty seat as miniature mouse luxuriates in Europe. God bless her. We applaud her. Today we have a guest, Tom Hanks.
0:16.5	Tom Hanks owns a string of muffler shops around the Midwest. We thought we'd have them in as an expert
0:22.4	because a lot of people
0:23.4	end up replacing their exhaust systems and we thought why not have an expert right Rob?
0:28.0	Yeah yeah that's what people are home from?
0:30.0	Yeah that's primarily what Tom Hanks is known from.
0:32.7	And also whatever, he was in Forrest Gump and Cast Away and Saving Private Ryan and Big and stuff.
0:37.2	But at any rate, he has a new movie out, Pinocchio. And not only is he in Pinocchio. He plays Jepeto in Pinocchio.
0:47.6	And almost as exciting as him being in it is that it's directed by Robert Zumekis who's just one of the all-time greatest
0:56.2	Forrest Gump. These two pair together well.
0:58.7	All that to say, we got to talk to Tom Hanks. Improvable, impossible, and incredibly fun.
1:05.2	What a nice sweet guy.
1:07.1	Rob, were you shocked with how gregarious he was?
1:10.5	He was very nice.
1:12.1	Yeah, and he called you Rob many times. Yeah.
1:14.5	Robby I think maybe. Yeah. Yeah I was in the attic by myself while you both were gone. Oh right. And he was
1:20.9	talking directly to you saying Robbie.
1:22.6	Yeah, that doesn't happen a lot.
1:24.0	What a gentleman.
1:25.2	Please enjoy Tom Hanks.
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