Tom Hanks paid for part of the filming of "Forrest Gump"

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Sometimes you have to get a little more involved than usual for a movie to be produced.

It might sound strange when it comes to one of the most popular movies of the last thirty years, but that's what happened to Tom Hanks with

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In an interview for In Depth with Graham Bensinger, the actor revealed that he had to pay out of pocket for a cult scene from the film ... cult: that of his character running across the country ("for no particular reason" ).

“Robert Zemeckis (the director) came to see me and said 'This race is going to cost us X dollars'.

And it was not cheap at all.

But I said "Ok".

And he replied "You and me, we are going to share the money and we are going to give it to Paramount", "explained Tom Hanks.

No less than $ 667 million at the box office

The duo do not regret their investment.

And for good reason: he negotiated part of the income from the feature film with the studio.

“We told Paramount 'we're going to give you the money for the scene, but you're going to have to share the film's profits a bit more with us.'

The studio said "Ok, fabulous".

And it was great for us too, ”added Tom Hanks.

We understand that, in retrospect, Tom Hanks is happy with his “shot”: the year of its release,

generated no less than $ 667 million at the box office.

Tom Hanks does not say how much the case earned him, but we imagine that the sum is not negligible, as the film was released in 1994 and continues to be shown regularly around the world.

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