Tom Hanks recently got candid and talked about forgetting his lines during his new Off-Broadway play. This world of tomorrow.
In the episode of Monday, November 3, The last show with Stephen Colbert, The 69-year-old American actor and filmmaker appeared to promote his show. This world of tomorrow, which he also co-wrote with James Glossman.
While talking about his Off-Broadway show, Hanks told the host that he forgot his lines during previews of the show.
He explained, “I actually disappeared the other night,” and joked that his co-stars in the play Kelli O’Hara and Ruben Santiago-Hudson “just look at me and say, ‘Come on, man. I learned my lines, haven’t you learned yours?'”
Colbert asked him how the experience felt different while writing the play, to which the two-time Oscar-winning actor responded, “Yes, it is. Number one because they’re going to have a really hard time firing me if I’m wrong.”
Hanks went on to say that co-writing the play with Glossman has been “a pleasure and a joy,” but it is also “the scariest situation I’ve ever been in.”
“The big difference between film and the stage is that in film the director is the governor of the story. He can change it, not say it, not say that, say this. The stage, if it’s not on the page, it’s not on the stage. Writers are the definitive arbiters of what is said,” he said. Saving Private Ryan the star explained.
