We tend to forget it, but Tom Hanks first stepped behind the camera in 1996, after winning two Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. It was for the comedy That Thing You Do!, a feel-good movie starring Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler and a very young Charlize Theron.
Released in French cinemas in 1997, That Thing You Do! It tells how the arrival of a new drummer in a rock band pushes him to fame. In this highly engaging film, Tom Hanks plays the role of a manager who leads a prodigy to the top.
It was during the very intense promotion of Forrest Gump, a film he had struggled with, that Tom Hanks, a little bored, began writing That Thing You Do!. And if the American hates some of his work, he is especially proud of it, even if it is not immediately successful.
“I loved making The Thing You Do. I loved writing it, I loved acting in it, and I love the cast.”Tom Hanks said recently at the microphone of the New Yorker. “When the movie came out, it was completely scrapped. It didn’t work. It was considered kind of a rip-off, a mash-up of nine different movies, just a nice little trip down memory lane.”
“Today, the same publications that dismissed it in their original reviews are calling it a ‘Tom Hanks cult classic.’continues the 67-year-old actor. “So now That Thing You Do! has become a cult classic. What’s changed? The answer is time.”
Incidentally, Charlize Theron was the first person to be cast in That Thing You Do!, encouraged to audition for the film after an agent noticed her courting a banker. He would really reveal himself to the general public shortly after playing in The Devil’s Partner alongside Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves.
We’ll end by remembering that Tom Hanks doesn’t have just one achievement. The Hollywood star also filmed It’s Never Too Late, a comedy in which he starred alongside Julia Roberts, which was released in theaters in 2011.
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