![]() ![]() And we would head out, and for 50 minutes the sun would be rising behind us on the open sea, and we would be heading towards the island of Monuriki, which is where we shot. And then I would swim out to the special fishing boat … get on with the pilot and the mate and one of the guys from the crew. The sky wasn’t even yet to turn blue, in the East, and I would make a cup of coffee then I would stroll down the gravel road to where the pier was. The house would be quiet - everybody would be in bed. “The sun was not yet up in the East, and I would get up wearing nothing but a Speedo and a T-shirt. Hanks then shared a funny story about how he started his days while working on the film. We were off in Fiji on two different occasions… There was nothing but adventures every single day, every single night.” “I mean we were out in the middle of the ocean just - you know - trying to grab shots. “We had just bold adventures when we were making that movie,” Hanks explained. “Cast Away,” which earned Wilson the volleyball a page in popular culture history, came in at number two. “We lived in a house in the middle of cornfields… It was a great summer, and my entire family still speaks about it.” Robert Zemeckis' Cast Away has a very simple premise: Chuck Noland ( Tom Hanks) survives a plane crash and gets stranded on a deserted island and must survive living on his own in a harsh new reality. “I had all my kids with me, I had all my family with me,” Hanks continued. Published Only Tom Hanks has the talent to make a volleyball a beloved character like he did with Wilson in Cast Away. His job for Federal Express has him traveling the world on a moments notice, exhorting the companys employees. ![]() I played baseball all summer long in Evansville, Indiana, and in Wrigley Field.” Tom Hanks is Chuck Noland, a man in a hurry. I took infield with Robin Knight and a ton of other people. “All I did all summer was play baseball,” he began. Hanks started with number one, “A League of Their Own.” ![]() “I would do it by way of the personal experience that I had when I was doing them, which is very different.” Today, Tom and Rita are happier than ever, and Wilson the volleyball was just auctioned off for a whopping £230,000 (about $308,565) in the U.K.“I would not do it according to the way the movies came out,” Hanks said. So, little did viewers know that he was actually keeping Rita close to him, even on set. He came up with the idea of a volleyball and he named it Wilson in honor of my beautiful bride.” Bill Broyles and I started talking about it and we didn’t shoot it until six years later. “ was written by Bill Broyles and that movie took about six years to figure out. “Was that by design because it could have been called Spalding?” Now, you’re married to the wonderful Rita Wilson, who I love, I adore, we all do,” Sean said on the podcast. “In Cast Away, the volleyball is named Wilson. That is, until Chuck loses Wilson in the ocean. But after drawing a face on it and naming it Wilson, the ball becomes his inanimate companion for the next four years. After he’s called away from Christmas dinner to resolve a matter in Malaysia, the FedEx cargo plane he’s on crashes on to a deserted island, and he must figure out how to get back home to his girlfriend Kelly ( Helen Hunt) in Memphis.įollowing several failed attempts to get off the island and a hand injury, Chuck lets out his frustration by tossing objects around from FedEx packages, including a Wilson Sporting Goods volleyball. After sharing stories about Bosom Buddies, Happy Days, Big and Saving Private Ryan, Tom opened up about the backstory of his sidekick in Cast Away.Īs fans may know, the drama follows the story of a FedEx systems analyst executive named Chuck who troubleshoots issues all over the world for the carrier. Over the hour-long episode, which premiered on November 3, Tom went down memory lane about his 40-year career working on TV projects and movies. Recently, Tom joined fellow actors Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett for an episode of their SmartLess podcast. After 33 years of marriage, the actor is still revealing ways that she has been a part of his different projects, including his 2000 drama film Cast Away. The love Tom Hanks has for his wife, actress and singer Rita Wilson, is truly one of a kind. ![]()
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