Solène Delinger 9:08 a.m., September 29, 2022
After 40 years of career, 120 films and series, two Oscars and multiple masterpieces, Tom Hanks is not really satisfied with his work… This is what he revealed in the columns of the magazine "People on the occasion of the release of his first novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece.
Forty career, 120 films and series, two Oscars for
Philadelphia
in 1994 and
Forrest Gump
in 1995, but also several masterpieces on the counter such as
The Green Line, Apollo 13, Alone in the world,
or even
Saving the soldier Ryan
...Tom Hanks' incredible career would make more than one actor green with envy...
Tom Hanks very hard on himself
And yet the Hollywood star, now 66, isn't so proud of his CV.
On the occasion of the promotion of his book
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece,
Tom Hanks returned to his career in an interview with the American magazine
People,
and was not very tender towards himself.
"I make a ton of movies out of it and only four of them are good I think. I'm following The book will be published by Penguin Random House in the UK and US on May 9, 2023. For now , no French release date has been announced. I'm always impressed by the way a film is made. The way a simple idea becomes an image on the screen… This whole process is a miracle
",
explains - he.
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A novel about the making of a film
Tom Hanks has not revealed the titles of the four films he considers the best of his career.
Little hint: in November 2021, the actor had confided during an appearance in the podcast The Bill Simmons Podcast hosted by journalist Bill Simmons, that the films
An extraordinary team, Cloud Atlas
and
Alone in the world
were among his hits of heart.
Tom Hanks' novel, his very first book, retraces the creation of a film over 80 years through the story of several characters: a soldier, his five-year-old nephew and finally a director.
The book will be published by Penguin Random House in the UK and the US on May 9, 2023. No French release date has yet been announced.