Tom Hanks recently got candid about forgetting his lines in his new Off-Broadway play, This world of tomorrow.
In the Monday, November 3 episode of The Late 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 teammates in the room Kelli O’Hara and Ruben Santiago-Hudson were “all looking at me and saying, ‘Come on, man.’ I learned my lines, didn’t you learn yours? »
Colbert asked how the experience was different when he was writing the play, to which the two-time Oscar winner replied, “Yes, it is. No. 1 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 “as terrifying a situation as I have ever been in”.
“The big difference between cinema and the stage is that in cinema the director is the governor of the story. He can change it, not say it, not say this, say this instead. The scene, if it’s not on the page, it’s not on the stage. The screenwriters are the final arbiters of what is said,” he said. We must save Private Ryan explained the star.
