Tom Hanks AGAIN defends ‘nepo babies’
Tom Hanks has insisted that nepo babies have to have “a drive” to succeed.
The 66-year-old actor is the father of Chet, 32, and Truman, 27, with wife Rita Wilson, as well as Colin, 45, and Elizabeth, 40, from his previous marriage to Samantha Lewes, all of whom work in the fields. of entertainment
And after recently stating that show business was the ‘family business,’ he explained to entertainment tonight on Monday that while it may have gotten them into the industry, they had to work to make things “stick.”
This comes after he posed with his son Truman on the red carpet while promoting his movie A Man Called Otto. Wife Rita produced and Truman has a part.
Nepo talk: Tom Hanks has insisted that nepo babies must have “a drive” to succeed. Seen with his wife Rita and his son Truman this week at the premiere of Man Called Otto
He said: ‘The shoe industry is a family business. The automobile industry is a family business. I think my kids are all like Renaissance artists, you know? [They] they are good at whatever they choose to be. But the question here is, can you make it stick?
And then he said that passion, drive, talent and luck are really the necessary ingredients.
‘You have to have a passion, you have to have a drive. And yes, our family has existed in the commercial city that is Los Angeles. Success is a combination of talent, perseverance, drive and not a little luck.’
The Cast Away star added that when it was suggested that one of his sons play the younger version of his character in a film, it “made sense”, but the decision was down to the little one.
A family effort: This comes after she posed with her son Truman on the red carpet while promoting their movie A Man Called Otto. Wife Rita produced and Truman has a part.
told ET : ‘Now, without a doubt, we had a director who said, ‘Well, why can’t your son play you at a young age?’ And that would make sense because we look a lot alike,” he noted.
“But the bottom line is that the person has to show up on the day and hit the mark and tell the truth. Only he can make that decision. It was totally up to him.
On Tuesday he said again Today that it wasn’t his idea to cast Truman in a role in his new movie.
His new movie: Hanks seen in A Man Called Otto with Mariana Treviano
‘Truman, who is either overwhelmed or blessed to look like me at the same age as him, and Marc Forster, our fabulous director, just goes, “You know what? It’s always so fake to have someone else come in and play you.” because they never look good. Maybe Truman could do this?” he told Savannah Guthrie on TODAY in an interview that aired on January 10.
He said he did not see his son in action.
“I have to be busy just with what I’m doing like old Otto, but young Otto was there,” he said. “But at the same time, I remember taking him in the carpool when he was 7 years old. So, you know, that crosses your mind.
Truman has a credit as a German cyclist in his father’s 2020 film News of the World.
His mother is Rita Wilson.
Another child: Tom and Rita are also parents to Chet, 32
Hanks said he was nervous about Truman taking the part, but knew he had to face the task alone.
He also talked about being known as Mr Nice Guy.
‘I wish I had lived a life where people really feared me. But I’ve tried to get in, like, mad. I don’t know, I just make everyone laugh,” he added.
He also said that he is now into meditation, which he learned from Jerry Seinfeld.
“He’s like, ‘No, you have to. I’ve been doing it since college,'” she said while doing her Seinfeld impression. “He put me together with his teacher, and it’s a strange, easy, life-changing thing. And should everyone? Sure why not?’