Hanks added, “At the end of the 47th day of shooting, in the 14th hour of the day, you still have to capture an emotional bit of lightning in a bottle that is going to last forever, whether you do it well or not. There remains forever a terrifying moment of, ‘Am I going to be escorted off the set and off the lot because the authenticity police have dubbed me a crook?’”
Hanks then singled out Cast Away as a specific film he can’t fully rewatch. “There is a moment in that it was painful for me in Cast Away in which I am back, and Chuck is back in Kelly’s house and he gives her watch back. And there is a moment where I just think, ‘I am not there.’ All it is is a turnaround on me, but I do this gesture that I just think is false and is me and is not Chuck. And if the movie is on, I will get up and leave the room before that scene comes on.”
The Toy Story 5 and Saving Private Ryan actor says he didn’t notice the Cast Away moment in question until he finally saw the movie, but it seems to have bugged him ever since. He also won’t really give himself credit for the great moments he did ace.
“I don’t sit there and say, ‘Oh, watch this movie. Watch this move that comes up, we really nailed that.’ I look at it, and all I can say is, ‘I was cold. It looks like I’m warm. I was really freezing that day, or that beard was sticky’. I can say things like that.”
