Tom Hanks Says U.S. Obligated to Care for Vets and Service Members
December 05, 2012 - ABC News
War and the U.S. military were staples in Tom Hanks' life long before he starred in "Saving Private Ryan" 14 years ago. The actor grew up in Alameda, Calif., where the Naval Air Station is located. Almost all of his friends had fathers serving overseas in the Air Force so...
Read moreTom Hanks Reveals the Pressures of Playing Disney: "I Don't Want to Piss Anybody Off!"
November 14, 2012 - E! Online
One of Hollywood's most beloved actors, Tom Hanks, playing one of the world's most beloved legends, Walt Disney? Seems like Saving Mr. Banks should be the perfect fit! But that doesn't mean there isn't a certain amount of pressure in taking on the man who created Mickey...
Read more'Cloud Atlas' is cinematic literature: Tom Hanks
October 28, 2012 - Yahoo! India
New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) Hollywood's versatile actor Tom Hanks, who plays six different characters in "Cloud Altas", terms the film "cinematic literature". He also admits that making the transition from one character to another was a challenge for him. The story of...
Read more'Cloud Atlas': Hanks and Berry to the 6th degree
October 25, 2012 - USA Today
TORONTO -- Somehow, Tom Hanks and Halle Berry have never crossed paths on screen. "Although we have talked to each other as if we had," he says. "When you go to the Golden Globes, you yell, 'Halle!' 'Tom!' We all pretend we know each other." They...
Read moreThe faces in 'Cloud': Who's who, and when
October 24, 2012 - USA Today
One of the pleasures of Cloud Atlasis watching Tom Hanks and Halle Berry being given the freedom to attempt roles that are the opposite of typecasting. They both spoke to USA TODAY's Susan Wloszczyna about the challenges of their multiple parts spread over six eras. 1849 Setting: A...
Read moreI believe that everything is connected: Tom Hanks
October 24, 2012 - DNA India
Oscar-winning Hollywood actor-filmmaker Tom Hanks is easily one of the most versatile stars. Ask about his biggest strength through all his ups and downs in the industry and he says, “I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is.” In an email...
Read moreTom Hanks and Halle Berry Talk Cloud Atlas, Moving Between Directors and Time Periods...
October 23, 2012 - Collider
From acclaimed filmmakers Andy & Lana Wachowski (The Matrix trilogy, Speed Racer) and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) comes the stunning, epic and powerful Cloud Atlas, based on the best-selling novel by David Mitchell. Through various genres and time periods, spanning 500 years, and with the...
Read moreHalle Berry and Tom Hanks on Playing Six Parts
October 22, 2012 - Movie Fanatic
Hanks and Berry sat down with Movie Fanatic at the Beverly Hilton recently and talked to us about the effort it took to bring David Mitchell’s epic bestselling novel to the big screen. Was there a character amongst your six that was more challenging than the others? Tom Hanks: I...
Read moreComplex ‘Cloud Atlas’ a multi-role challenge for Hanks
October 22, 2012 - New York Times
The latest movie starring Tom Hanks, the incredibly ambitious Cloud Atlas, is a film that requires some explanation — and the 56-year-old actor happily obliges. “I think it’s as risky as Inception (2010),” he said recently. “You saw that one the first time and...
Read moreTom Hanks: Still exploring human behavior
October 21, 2012 - The Star Ledger
Tom Hanks has played a quietly heroic astronaut and a mentally disabled jogger, a shy lawyer dying of AIDS and a guy in love with a mermaid, a solitary castaway and a cowboy action figure. He has even played a crook or two. And yet he's almost always playing a man reaching toward the...
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