The Hanks family.Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty
Tom Hanksis giving his two cents on the Hollywood nepotism debate.
“This iswhat we’ve been doing forever,” said Tom, 66. “It’s what all of our kids grew up in. We have four kids — they’re all very creative, they’re all involved in some brand of storytelling.”
“And if we were a plumbing-supply business or if we ran the florist shop down the street, the whole family would be putting in time at some point, even if it was just inventory at the end of the year,” the actor added.
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Tom Hanks and son Truman Hanks.Karwai Tang/WireImage
“The thing that doesn’t change no matter what happens, no matter what your last name is, is whether it works or not,” he said, referring to his family’s respective projects.
“That’s the issue anytime any of us go off and try to tell a fresh story, or create something that has a beginning, middle and end,” theForrest Gumpstar said. “Doesn’t matter what our last names are. We have to do the work in order to make that a true and authentic experience for the audience.”
“And that’s a much bigger task than worrying about whether anybody’s going to try to scathe us or not,” he concluded.
Truman, Tom’s youngest child, plays the younger version of his dad’s crotchety character inA Man Called Otto, based on Fredrik Backman’s 2012 novelA Man Called Ove.
“Italked [to Truman] a little bitabout some physical gestures and the way to walk when you’re pissed off,” Tom said last month during a screening and Q&A for the film at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
“The good news is that I looked like him when I was 26. The bad newsis he’s gonna look like mein another 40 years,” Tom joked in addition. “He is just gonna have to deal with that.”
A Man Called Ottois in theaters now.
source: people.com
