Tom Hanks Didn’t Know If Anyone Would Watch Forrest Gump | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

you had a moment on Forest Gump of. course you're working with Robert zus. you're working with him on Forest Gump. and you said you're sitting there on the. bench and you just thought is anyone. going to watch that's exactly right what. did you say is anyone going to watch. this is anyone going to care about this. guy we had already we had worked so hard. so much and we were only about 40%. through with the movie we still had a. ton of stuff that we had to do we had. shot we had shot 27 straight. days uh in a row which included. helicopter rides to like places in.

America where uh Forest runs across the. country you know with a beard without a. beard you know we've been all over the. place and I'm. exhaust I'm fried and we've got like. we've got like 36 hours to shoot this. stuff in Cherokee Square in Savannah and. I'm you know I'm there dressed we have a. ton of act uh ton of actors that are. come in they're going to sit next to me. on on the bus bench and we were trying. to shoot so much that I said Bob there.

is no way my sad little brain can learn. this much dialogue because I I've got a. page and a page and a page and a page. and a page and that's just up to lunch I. I I you know if you think I'm going to. be Word Perfect on this you're out of. your mind and don't worry about it time. we'll just put it on cards like it's I. love. lucd and you know we'll slide the. cameras around so it's you don't want. have to. get Robert say tril dummy we've worked.

together a lot so I actually know I know. what that means now I know what it means. and so we were doing it and in all. honesty you know you do it twice and. then you get it down so it goes pretty. fast and we were we were Midway through. like a day we shot all that stuff in a. day all the stuff on the thing we're we. were this you on the Park Bench iconic. yeah we shot we shot it in the day and. at one point you know I'm just you know. I'm done what is this you trying to read. it it said guys can you make the print a. little bit better just for the first.

couple of takes but then I'll get it. down don't worry about it and the other. actors are coming in you want to run. this go like that and at one point you. know Bob is sitting there next to me and. I said I don't know Bob you know anybody. going to care about this guy dressed up. in like a this kooky ice cream suit. sitting on this. B saying saying stuff you know is it is. it going to cut together is it going to. matter is it going to make any sense and. and Mom well that's the thing about. making movies Tom it's a mindfield it's.

just a mindfield we don't know. if we're sewing the seeds of our own. destruction or. not and that I'm you know uh that is the. truth of every single moment that you're. standing in front look know I made this. movie and that was alter you know and I. I always say in in years to come we'll. be talking about a movie called Cloud. adlas I made it with the wowski and that.

was one of the most vibrant loving. hardworking magnificent thing and when. it came out it was just like oh oh hey. uh nice movie meanwhile The Incredibles. are all you know you're all we got lost. in in the horse space so all you can do. is show up and go there everybody says. how'd you do that scene oh I'll show you. I showed up that day and we all went. there is there any trick to it yeah. here's the trick go there.

and it if you if that means you got to. put yourself through some sort of. psychological hell in order to get there. go there now you might know this you. show up to work and you're going to do a. convivial happy hilarious scene right. the everything works great and you know. you know what happened the day before. that uh your dog got hit by you know. every tragedy has happened to you eight. hours prior show up and just be corre. isn't it fun to be in love and shoot a. Montage where we're licking ice cream.

and we're holding hands and we're. skipping stones and playing a beach ball. and it's and then we're dancing in a. gazebo and it's on with the worst days. of your freaking life right and then. other days where you got to go and you. have to like go to a place that's. incredibly dark and stormy and crazy and. all you did last night was laugh like. crazy at the karaoke bar with the rest. of the guys in the the crew guys it's.

it's 2:00 in the morning I love to sing. another Elvis song but I have to weep. and cry at 8:00 in the morning so I. think I'm going to think I'm going to go. reti all you can do is go there no. matter what because guess what you don't. know where you're stepping it's it's a. mindfield conent it's a. mindfield.