Tom Hanks Does His Steven Spielberg Impression | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

the big question would. be you talked earlier about how you're. hesitant to watch your own work this. sitting and watching this movie for you. is watching you yeah at 17 67 and. everything in between how's have you had. that experience yet are you prepared for. that experience I've seen just enough of. it and seeing me at that age it has. finally answered the question for me is.

uh which is no wonder I never got. laid the original title of the. film well I mean I had a lot of energy. and I was and I was loud and uh you know. uh I could uh I could I could make it. laugh uh well you just describe. anything I've occasionally been forced. to look at myself in 19 from 199 every.

day of my life was televised from 1993. up until about and um I'm not happy with. any of it and I always watch it and I. look at my wife and I go. why well so what what we did actually. have to examine this probably more than. you ever do on a movie because we had to. literally go right and we had. technicians that were looking at our. skin and stuff like that but we also had. to look at the timing and the Cadence of. what it is because there is I don't know. what the ACT name of it but there is.

there is a um there is a factor I can't. remember what it's called um we thought. that we were speaking in a very. realistic Cadence and then we would go. watch a playback and it was as. slow as. molasses being poured it just took. forever but would say it's like the. Cinematic time slip.

it seems like it's fast but it plays in. real time so that's one of the things we. discovered about it that didn't make it. any more fun to sit there and look at. ourselves uh in you know dressed up as. as as we were it just occurred to me I. know that I've talked to you and you've. several times where you've slipped into. a a Ron Howard impression you've you've. just uh you've you've destroyed Robert. Zac's career uh uh and yet he comes back. for more.

do you uh is this happened as is anyone. who directs you uh you know is liable to. be uh impersonated by you uh some some. are a little you know some I guess are I. don't even know what a what a Spielberg. impression would be I don't even I don't. get a sense this this would be oh I. don't care what you. say we on every on every movie I've done.

I've I think I've worked with Stephen. five times uh let's see Ryan and the. terminal and uh Catch Me If You Can um. Bridge of spies Bridge of spies is there. another one in there I I can't. recall is there another one in there my. IMDb um and he always does this thing I. I wake up and I see you know Stephen. uses the screen plays of Steven's movies. are the most basic blueprints they are. not uh they are not the result set of.

stones they are not like set down so. it'll come and there'll be a lot of. dialogue and you know you do this and. explain this and you get there and uh um. I'll go they said man there's an awful. lot of stuff in there I think I'd like. to cut that and I'd like to cut that and. I'd like to cut that and then I get to. work and Steph will say okay here's the. shot we're going to start here and the. camera's going to be right here we're. going to be following you and you guys. will be saying all your stuff right. there I said well I was thinking that. maybe we don't need all this oh I don't. care what you say.

I I doubt the LA the last couple of. gigs the LA the last couple of gigs that. I've had I said I said when everybody is. in town we did this on bridge of spies. and also but mostly just on bridge of. spies I said look I'll get we'll get. together with all the guy oh we did and. the post we did the post together did. the same thing with the post get. everybody together and we'll read. through some of the scenes and I'll just. explain said listen everybody there are. some days that we will come to work and.

we will have all of this stuff memorized. and we'll be hot we will have read. through it we'll be prepared and we will. get to this uh to the stage and Stephen. will have done all that work for us we. don't have to do anything except inhabit. the space because Stephen is telling the. story from the Cinematic perspective. where the camera is and what he's doing. it's not going to not even going to. matter but then there'll be other times. my. friends when we will show up and we'll. know it all and we need know it cuz we.

have to get there when we uh when we. shot the stuff on the glan bridge on. bridge of spies which was the real place. where the spies were exchanged crazy we. we were we were freezing to death was. very very cold and Stephen came up to. hey I hope you guys know all your lines. because I haven't the slightest idea how. we're going to shoot. this and I and I just turned to all the. guys and said what did I tell. you and then then he's the most. malleable guy well what if we stand here. stepen what if we come out here what if.

he comes out great great great great oh. that's a great idea because I'm not. going to come and then he's very excited. about all that kind of.