Tom Hanks revealed that he didn't initially think his Oscar-winning role in 1994’s "Forrest Gump" would resonate with audiences. "I say, 'Hey [director] Bob [Zemeckis], I've got a question for you.
Is anybody going to care about this movie?'" the "A Man Called Otto" star told the New Yorker at New York’s Symphony Space on Tuesday night of what he was thinking while making the movie, according to People magazine. "'This guy sitting on a thing in these goofy shoes and this cuckoo suit with a suitcase full of ‘Curious George’ books and stuff like that.
Are we doing anything here that is going to make any sense to anybody?'" Hanks said he wondered. Hanks said Zemeckis called the movie a "minefield." "'We may be sowing the seeds of our own destruction,’" he said Zemeckis told him "’Any footstep we take can be a Bouncing Betty that'll blow our n--- right off.'" At the time, Zemeckis had already directed "Back to the Future," "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Romancing the Stone" before making "Forrest Gump." He would later direct Hanks again in "Cast Away," "The Polar Express," last year’s "Pinocchio" and the upcoming "Here." Hanks added that Zemeckis taught him to have "faith" in what they’re shooting and worry about the rest later. "Bob Zemeckis – God bless him, I've worked with him more than once – landed on the absolute truth of anybody who has gone forward and said, ‘We are going to commit something to film today, and eventually we'll cut this into something.’ You do not know if it is going to work out.
You can only have faith." In 1994, "Forrest Gump" producer Wendy Finerman told the New York Times the movie took nearly a decade to get done and at first no one was interested.
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