Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson, who are the trustee and governor of the Academy, discuss their involvement in the creation of the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, which has become a significant cultural hub for movie lovers.
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00:00You guys are heavily involved in the museum, right?
00:03Yeah, she is a current trustee.
00:05I'm a governor of the academy.
00:09I'm the governor of the Actors Branch,
00:11along with Marlee Matlin and Lou Diamond Phillips.
00:14I was a governor when this was not even on the drawing board
00:19yet.
00:20I was involved at the saying, this
00:22must happen because it's going to be
00:25a natural resource for the city of Los Angeles.
00:28And any visitor who loves movies,
00:30who comes to Los Angeles because of movies they've seen,
00:33will come to this building and see what we got.
00:36And now a couple years in, I mean,
00:37what have you kind of seen the value of it?
00:39How many years in are we?
00:40It's so incredible.
00:41This is the fourth.
00:42Wow, really?
00:44The museum's incredible.
00:45I mean, it's really been a success in so many ways.
00:50And I just think there's so many more exciting things that
00:54are coming down the road for it.
00:56So yeah, it's a great addition to our city.
01:00When the metro station is finished,
01:04this area is going to be unlike any other part of the city
01:09as well.
01:10There's the new LACMAs coming in.
01:12There's museums galore.
01:13There's the academy.
01:15There's the Peterson.
01:16It's really going to be a place you'll
01:18be able to come here and stay all day long.
01:21And it's a museum.
01:22You don't have to buy, you know, you
01:23don't have to buy parking or a general admission ticket.
01:27You just come.
01:29And you've got here coming out.
01:32Not if you take the metro.
01:35Oh, if you take the metro.
01:37You've got here coming out.
01:39What did you think when Robert Zemeckis came to you
01:41with that idea?
01:43We sit around and talk all the time.
01:45So we're always trying to figure out,
01:52how can we bust this thing really wide open?
01:55And I asked a question about a particular type
02:01of cinematic narrative.
02:03And he said, funny you should ask that question, Tom.
02:06And he had the graphic novel that it
02:08was based on written in 1986, which
02:11I couldn't understand the first three times I read it.
02:14But then he also had the screenplay
02:16that he and Eric Roth had written on.
02:19So it wasn't so much of, hey, Tom, would you do this thing?
02:23It's like, as Bob said, so what do you think?
02:26Think we should try this?
02:28And we threw ourselves in.
02:30And then after that, it was just, it's a great hang.
02:34It is a very challenging working environment.
02:38Bob can't do anything that's been done before.
02:40So we're throwing deep, baby.
02:42What did you think when you saw the de-aging?
02:45The de-aging.
02:46Well, there's been versions of that.
02:49The technology and the tool that's used here,
02:52the difference is we see it in literally real time.
02:56That's what I thought was pretty incredible.
02:58When you're on set, you have a monitor,
03:00which is what they're filming and capturing in that moment.
03:04But right next to that monitor is another monitor.
03:07And that is the de-aging monitor that you
03:09see happening in real time.
03:11So you see Tom in his makeup or whatever.
03:16But then immediately next to it, it's already he's younger.
03:19You don't have to wait for six months of pre-production.
03:23But don't think that we didn't go through prolonged hair
03:27and makeup in order to get there.
03:28We went through.
03:30They have to move our ears.
03:32They have to do stuff to our skin.
03:34We have to have a very, very particular camera-ready
03:38everything because the expense comes in the skin
03:42because you have a tool that literally
03:44reads the pores of your skin and matches that up to 1,000.
03:49So what it is is it's just a great tool.
03:53That's it.
03:53That same sort of tool is spirit gum and crepe hair
03:57and putty noses that utilizes that but then takes it
04:01to a next kind of level.
04:03Yeah, it's pretty cool.
04:04Thank you so much.
04:05Thank you, Hollywood Report.