Tom Hanks popped into David Letterman’s late-night television show on Monday. After a bit of diabetes II chatter (Hanks now has it, but he’ll be all right), Tom and Dave wound up discussing Paul Greengrass’s Captain Phillips. “They were so free-form when we were shooting — I didn’t even meet the guys, my good friends Barkhad, Barkhad, Mahat, and Faysal, until they stormed the bridge,” Hanks says of his co-stars, who play Somali pirates. The point was for the bridge-stormery to feel authentically terrifying, which, for Hanks, was a home run: “We all immediately felt like out-of-shape, middle-aged doofuses next to these guys.” The vibe stuck for about a half-hour, until break time, when the Forrest Gump fanboys came out of the woodwork, just like they always do.
Tom Hanks Will Have You Starstruck No Matter What Kind of Badass You’re Playing
