Tom Hanks
Appearances
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Tom Hanks Returns
And there was a period of time a German Bund. The Bund was essentially, hey, we're all Germans. We all live America. Let's form a fraternal organizations like other nationalities. Yeah. You know, and I'm going to hope that before that. Before they found out just how bad Hitler was, you know, but they're there.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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I swear I have seen photographs of like a 4th of July in the 1930s up there with a fireworks thing. And they would have no lie, a picture of the founding fathers and a picture of Adolf Hitler, an American flag and a Nazi flag. the German Nazi flag. And they were saying, our country is coming back, et cetera, et cetera.
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And I just hope that maybe you can get away with that in 1930, you know, but it continued along. And in fact, it is now a scout camp, or it had been for a while. I have gone there to scout a location. And there was like the main lodge, you know, there's tents and stuff like that. But there is a main lodge that honestly looks like, you know, a German Alpine chalet. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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that all you have to do is paint it red, put a couple of Hawken cruisers on there, and you are right back in Nazi-ville, USA.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Jesus, Matt. We are making light of a very, very dark period, without a doubt. Yes. So, yeah, I mean, you don't want to say, how do you get to Conan's house? Oh, well, you've gone too far if you hit the Hitler tent. Right. Make a U-turn at the Hitler camp.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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What year did we, the first year I was on SNL and you were back in, we called you, I called you the boiler room boys. Yes. It was you and Odenkirk and Smigel in the back.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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I'd always heard that that was the that was a great power of the hang that you got there and all night Monday and all night Tuesday. You're going from now they kind of like take the hosts around. But, you know, I want to get in there and get in there and mix it up, because here's one thing I learned about maybe the third time I did the show. You say, hey, you're the host.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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I say, hey, I have some ideas for some sketches. And every writer goes, well, that's just great.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Tom Hanks Returns
You have ideas that will rob us of the opportunity to get our ideas read. How wonderful. Wonderful. And I would like to say, I don't think you then learn that. Look, you're the host. Concentrate on the monologue and then walk away. But it's a great hang, man. Everybody's everybody's carrying on.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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There was a period of time where to watch TV, you needed an $8,000 video deck that had more moving parts than the cars we drove to Conan Land. Conan Land. Conan Land today. But, you know, I went to the Joni Mitchell jam at Hollywood. My wife Rita was singing along with everybody. And I sat next to Fred Ormison, you know, and Fred compared notes on how many.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Listen, I'm a guy who grew up in a house without any women. I know four Joni Mitchell songs. They're going to sing 32 of them tonight. I'm going to love it. It's like going to the opera. It's great. But I asked him, you know, because, no, I mean, no, I completely appreciate it. I'm an absolute fan.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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But I asked him that question that you're trying to say, like, anytime somebody has retired, you know, I said, when you left the show. Mm-hmm. Did you know that it was time to leave the show? Or, you know, five months later, do you start getting cold sweats at the same time you got cold sweats? Do you start writing things? And God bless anybody who is a really great thing. They said, no, no, no.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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You know, after all my time there, it was time to move along. Because I come from that school of You do not walk away from a gig. If they are inviting you to come and be funny, make sandwiches, sharpen pencils, have an idea. I don't walk away from that gig. But I guess after a while it devours you and you got to go along. Or did you get fired, Conan?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Conan, thank you for all your service. We're not going to...
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Tom Hanks Returns
And I think the creative atmosphere of that is the writer is on the floor producing the piece. And that's not standard stuff. A guy who wrote it with great passion is over there in between sweating bullets and vomiting out of anxiety. He's he's telling Sting how to do a comedy bit, you know, you know, or, you know, say, could you make, you know, but that's I think that's a great power of it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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You get to produce the thing that you wrote then and there.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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You do have to learn how to survive physically when you do the show. And the last time I did it, I told everybody who was in charge of me, particularly our wardrobe and stage manager people, I said, I want you to understand that my goal on this week's hosting duties is to take as few steps as possible. Right. So I am going to come here and I will get dressed.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And where can we get dressed next time? Because I don't have to walk all the way back here. I'm going to take as few steps.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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I'm going to do that. I've got to do that as much as possible. Because look, you know, it's a young man's game. And there was a time, there was a time that you just, you know, it's just balls to the walls and you just fill up every minute with activity. No, no, no. Take it easy, Tom.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Well, let me just, I printed up my IMDB. Okay. Now you notice I'm almost to a hundred films here, right? Yeah. I'm getting up there, but I'm going to say. Really crinkly paper. I'm going to say, well, you know, coming out of the printer. I'm going to say, see it out all these. I'm going to say six of these are pretty damn good. The rest of them are checkered. It's all a checkered career.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Oh, okay. First of all, everybody wakes up at 3 o'clock in the morning sometimes, splashes cold water on their face, and asks this question of the zeitgeist, what is happening to me? Why can't I rest? Right. Why am I tormented and haunted? Yet again. That's your mattress, I think. Okay.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Look, without a doubt, I really dig my job, and I go into everything with an insane amount of enthusiasm and faith in the collaborative process. And I don't want to overuse sports analogy, but it really is the baseball analogy that Um, Ted Williams hit 400 for one season of his baseball career. And that's about the best you can do.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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If you're somewhere between two 82 and, you know, three, something that they, they will, they will put you in the hall of fame. And the thing that there is nobody, nobody starts a movie and says one of these two things, this ain't going to work. No one says that on the third day of shooting. We have made a terrible mistake. None of this is actually a thing.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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All these peoples that are getting paid are liars. No one says this. Nor does anybody say on the third day of shooting, we're in Clover, boys.
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No one says this. Okay, Roger Spottiswood, who is about as facile a filmmaker as I am. We were shooting Turner and Hooch. And this was back when I really put an import on... The reports, you know, you wanted like, how's it going? Great. Oh, we saw this and it was great. And that was great. And everything's great. How about that scene and how that was it?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And that's all you can shoot for. How was it? Well, I don't know. You know, I hope it'll cut. That's all you can hope for. And so at the end of the day, the thing that is now an advantage of is I talk about this sometimes with people who are as old as I am. We got into this. Let me tell you a story about technology.
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Speaking of one-inch VHS cassettes, in between the two years of the bosom buds, the VHS machine was invented. And the first season was in 1980. And in 1981, you could go to Mad Bad Munces or, you know, something, and for $4,000 buy a videocassette machine, right? And that altered absolutely everything.
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So as of episode, you know, 22 of Kip and Henry's adventures in Bosom Buddies, everything has since been rentalable and it sits there forever. So I have had countless. And now, of course, you can watch them any damn time you want to. I can't tell you how often I've been somewhere and someone will come up to me and say... Excuse me, Mr. Hanks? Yeah. Oh, hi. How are you?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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I just want to say your films have always been a great... salvaged for me. Uh, I've really, uh, enjoyed many, many times I've turned to you and, uh, I was home at one point and, uh, came across and, uh, saw a film that you made in 1993, uh, that really, really spoke to me. Uh, you played a, um, uh, uh, Air Force pilot in World War II, uh, in, uh, Israel.
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And, uh, I had never heard of the film before. I didn't know it existed, but I really, really, really enjoyed it. And I said, oh, that movie was called Every Time We Say Goodbye. It was directed by Moshe Mizrahi. And I made it for about eight weeks in Jerusalem long before the intifada began. Very good, sir. And I also enjoyed Toy Story very, very much. So all of this stuff lives.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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All of this stuff lives. And now what happened is that time has become one of the metrics for how these things matter, right? In the day, I mean, it was just a fist fight. It was every movie that came out, are you going to make the playoffs or not? Guess what? No, kid, you're 2-12 and you ain't going nowhere. Or you got a shot.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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You used to be, you had these, these had these Rubicons that you crossed when you came down. First of all, do you love it or not? That's the first thing. Hey, I read this thing. I love it. I can't get it in my head. Yes. Okay. You have crossed the Rubicon, right?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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The next Rubicon you cross is when the movie is completely done a year and a half later and you see it for the first time and you might like it or it might, it doesn't matter if it works or not. You look at it and say, okay, Hey, I think we acquitted ourselves pretty good. That's Rubicon number two. Then the critics weigh in Rubicon number three. And that's always up down. We hate it. We like it.
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This is the worst thing. Oh, hey. Oh, hi, Tom. I saw you in a movie. Oh, did you? Yeah. It was it was cute. Yeah. That's when you ask the wife, hey, honey, could you take the revolver out of the glove box? And hide it somewhere because I think... This is saving private land. And so then, but then this other thing is how it does at the BO, how it does at the box office.
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Then a ton of time goes by when none of that stuff matters anymore. And the movie just exists exactly as it is now. outside of loser-winner status. Thumbs up, thumbs down. And that's when this stuff comes around, where it's like this thing that didn't work back then kind of does work now. Or just the opposite, a thing that was huge back then is a museum piece and doesn't really speak to anything.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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But that's an example of... Let me tell you something about these cocksuckers who write about movies. Can I say that?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Somebody, somebody, somebody who, somebody who wrote about it is, is that this is just, you know, Tom Hanks has to stop hanging around with veterans of TV because this is just like the shot on TV and it's not much of anything, you know. That same person then wrote about The cult classic, that thing you do. Same exact person.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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It's all you need is 20 years between now and then, and it ends up speaking somewhere else. But, you know, that's the thing we all signed up for. That's, you know, that's the carnival. That's the contest.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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We had worked so hard, so much, and we were only about 40% through with the movie. We still had a ton of stuff that we had to do. We had shot... We had shot 27 straight days in a row, which included helicopter rides to, like, places in America where Forrest runs across the country, you know, with a beard, without a beard. You know, we'd been all over the place. And I'm exhausted. I'm fried.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And we've got like 36 hours to shoot this stuff in Cherokee Square in Savannah. You know, I'm there dressed and we have a ton of actors that are coming. They're going to sit next to me on the bus bench. And we are trying to shoot so much. that I said, Bob, there is no way my sad little brain can learn this much dialogue because I've got a page and a page and a page and a page and a page.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And that's just up to lunch. I, you know, if you think I'm going to be word perfect on this, you're out of your mind. And don't worry about it, Tom. We'll just put it on cards like it's I Love Lucy.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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We've worked together a lot, so I actually know what that means now. I know what it means. And so we were doing it, and in all honesty, you know, you do it twice, and then you get it down, so it goes pretty fast. And we were midway through, like, a day. We shot all that stuff in a day, all the stuff on the thing. This is you on the park bench, iconic.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Yeah, we shot it in a day, and at one point, you know, I'm just, you know, I'm doing all this, you know. We're trying to read it. I said, guys, can you make the print a little bit better just for these first couple of takes? But then I'll get it down. Don't worry about it. The other actors are coming in. You want to run this? Go like that.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And at one point, you know, Bob is sitting there next to me. And I said, I don't know, Bob, you know, anybody going to care about this guy dressed up in like this kooky ice cream suit sitting on this bench? Saying stuff, you know. Is it going to cut together? Is it going to matter? Is it going to make any sense? And Bob goes, well, that's the thing about making movies, Tom.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And that, you know, that is the truth of every single moment that you're standing in front of. Look, you know, I made this movie that was altered, you know, and I always say in years to come, we'll be talking about a movie called Cloud Atlas. I made it with the Wachowskis. And that was one of the most vibrant, loving, hardworking, magnificent thing.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And when it came out, it was just like, oh, oh, hey, nice movie. Meanwhile, the Incredibles are, you know, you're all, we got lost in, So all you can do is show up and go there. Everybody says, how'd you do that scene? Oh, I'll show you. I showed up that day and we all went there. Is there any trick to it? Yeah. Here's the trick. Go there.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And if that means you got to put yourself through some sort of psychological hell in order to get there, go there. Now, you might know this. You show up to work and you're going to do a convivial, happy, hilarious scene, right? Everything works great. And you know what happened the day before that? Your dog got hit by it. Every tragedy has happened to you.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Eight hours prior, show up and just be, is it fun to be in love and shoot a montage where we're licking ice cream and we're holding hands and we're skipping stones and playing a beach ball and then we're dancing in a gazebo. And it's on one of the worst days of your frigging life, right?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And then other days where you got to go and you have to like go to a place that's incredibly dark and stormy and crazy. And all you did last night was laugh like crazy at the karaoke bar with the rest of the guys in the crew. Guys, it's 2 o'clock in the morning. I'd love to sing another Elvis song, but I have to weep and cry at 8 o'clock in the morning. So I think I'm going to go return.
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All you can do is go there no matter what. Because guess what? You don't know where you're stepping. It's a minefield, Conan. It's a fucking minefield.
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The first three days are three days of terror because it's a combination of everybody else who is there. And also just on the third day, you realize no matter what the movie is, you realize I should have said no. There just should have been something wrong with it. I don't know. Because here we are. Here we are. The intimidate. I will look. I've done this long enough.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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So I now am aware that I intimidate other people, you know, because, you know, because you show up and then somebody said, OK, I'll tell you this story. OK, here's a show business story. We are shooting perhaps the most scary, intense, truly scary, intense, real life scene in Captain Phillips.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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We are, honestly, we're overweight, old, middle-aged guys who are going to be taken over by these pirates. And we have never met the guys who play the pirates. We don't know who they are. All we know is that they are coming because the way Paul Greengrass shot that, he had cameras on us and cameras on the four guys, Barkov and Abdul and Big B, Little B, all the guys. And we have never met them.
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And they are firing automatic blanks, you know, machine guns. We hear all this stuff that's going on. And we don't see anything until the camera outside the bridge of the Maersk, Alabama. We see the camera backing up with the guys pulling the cable. And then four of the scariest human beings I have ever met come in, and they are screaming at us. They are slapping us. They are hitting us.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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They are pushing it down. And they're holding— They're real guns. You know, they're holding them in our faces, screaming at us. And it was honestly, we are all bug eyed with some form of terror, even though we know it's a movie that is removed because guess what? We all went there. All right. So we're all there.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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This initial scene went on for about 20 minutes because Paul does this thing where he has a secondary and third cameras that don't start shooting until later on. So film is always rolling. And then one camera will go quickly reload and then join back in the scene. So this is this is going to stay in that space. We are right there because the camera's on us and it's working.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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So four of the skinniest, scariest looking guys, their eyes were all bloodshot. They all had this teeth. They were all built like wires. They had muscles like rope. They're dressed in rags and they're holding AK-47s on us and they're screaming at us. And it went on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. Relatively unrehearsed. When it was finally done, Paul says, all right, all right.
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Okay. All right. All right. That went well. That went well. Why don't we... I like this. And we said, if we can, what I'd like to do is just take it back and come back in. I said, okay, yeah, all right. Okay, good. And then one of the actors, Mahat was his name. Mahat says, I can't believe I'm working with Forrest Gump.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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So a countenance, right, comes along with the whole bit. And, you know, once we got that done, we were just guys making a movie. It was fantastic. But that's an example of, you know, there was a moment where you have to do all this suspension of the reality of, you know, what it is. And all you can do is go there.
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This is why so many of us go stark raving nuts. Yeah. Because that surrealistic divide between why you are there and what are you creating begins... It's too malleable after a while. And yet it starts... And it finishes within the wink of an eye. You know, it's that type of thing where the massacre is over and cut.
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And all the dead guys start getting up and moving around, you know, and you move on and you get the other shot. I wish we could just keep it all secret, like the Coca-Cola formula. I wish we didn't have to. But I don't watch movies that I'm in because they haven't changed since I saw them. So I know how they end.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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But every now and again, like you're blowing through the grid or something like that, and a minute comes on or a scene comes on. And what I remember is what happened just before we shot that scene. That's all I can recall. I look at it. I don't remember doing the scene per se, but I said, oh, it was cloudy that day. And, you know, I dropped a script in a mud puddle. And then I had some flan. Yeah.
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And then it was time to go. Yeah, what did we have? Oh, you know what? Somebody made Reuben sandwiches that day. That was really great. Oh, I remember craft service made Reuben sandwiches that day. Yeah. And I think it was Annie in the accounting department's birthday. And so we all sang happy birthday in the catering tent tour.
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It has a cinematic technique to it that is very unique. Is that what you could say?
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I'm sorry. I apologize. We'll cut this part out. Based on your question, I'd like to say, will you shut the fuck up?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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That's true. Harrison Ford said the same thing. Hey, I'm a good company. I'm trying to talk to Conan. What the hell, Clay? Oh, you read the comic book, did you? Guess what? No, I got a question. How did you drive? Did you come down Beverly? Did you come down Beverly and make a right on Larchmont?
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My name is Tom Hanks. And I feel blank about being Conan O'Brien. You feel blank. I love it. You don't even like give hint words. Could you just put adjective in there in parentheses or something like that? What's wrong with that?
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Thanks, Blake. All right, there you go. Sorry about that. But you're talking to me because I was talking to Bob. Bob and I get together all the time.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Right. Yes. And I did Forrest Gump with Bob. I did The Polar Express with Bob. I did Castaway with Bob. And I did Pinocchio with Bob. I played Geppetto. Thank you. And while we were doing that, I would say, you know, we had seen this movie. He had talked about this movie a long time ago. We got time to talk about this stuff, right? We don't have to hurry through this. No.
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He had talked about this movie that he had seen, and he said, I guess the most amazing thing last night, I couldn't figure out how they got this shot.
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The name of the movie was The Truffle Hunters. It's a great documentary. Wow. I don't know it. It's fascinating. It's about essentially the relationship between the people who hunt out truffles and the dogs that find the truffles for them. And then it's examination of also the sociologic, the business of truffle and also the people that do it. And a lot of the movie was shot.
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From a standard, what we call static POV, the camera never moves. And yet the scene will go on for 8, 9, 12 minutes. And I was talking about it because I ended up saying, I said, God, there was some stuff in there that was the most evocative movie making I've ever seen. And it was a documentary. There was no music. There was no score. It was just people behaving. And I was fascinated.
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I wonder, Bob, I wonder if you could do that in a feature film. And he looks at me and he says, buddy, you should ask that, Tom. Then he has the screenplay that he wrote with Eric, Eric Roth, who did, he did Gumpo with us as well. And I said, you need to read this. And then he also handed me the graphic novel by Richard, I can't remember what his name is.
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Don't make me say it again. But then he gave me that. And honestly, I had to read the graphic novel about three times in order to figure out how it was going to translate to this thing. And then when I got it, I literally said, ow, my God, this is a deep throat, baby.
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The tool that we use, everybody, you know, everybody says, what's this mean? You use AI in order to make movies. AI is evil. What are you doing? What's it going to mean to movies?
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It's you. It's my countenance that I bring it. It's called deep fake. All it is is a movie-making tool. In the old days, and by old days I mean 2019, before it all changed, we still had hours in the makeup trailer because we had to have wigs and hair and do things like... I was wondering, Jennifer, Jennifer, I'm sitting down in the chair. She says, hello. She's a very lovely lady. I said, hello.
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Hello, Tom. Hello. How was your evening last night, Tom? And as she's asking me these questions, she's grabbing both of my ears, squeezing them, lifting them up on the side of my head and gluing them up higher on the top of my head as I'm going. And I said, is that going to hold? Oh, it has to, Tom. Because as you age, your ears grow larger and they fall down the side of your head.
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And today is the scene where you're only 22. So we have to raise your ears and glue them to the side of my head. And by the way, it works. It stays glued. It's like, I said, you might need a staple gun there. No, no, it all works.
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You go and you do a data scan, and then they match it with every photograph that exists of me, and they go back and find as many photographs of me at the age of 17, 19, 20, 20, for my entire life. Then they jam those in using, are you ready for the scary word? When I say it, can you guys like recoil like the word? And they use AI. Yeah! Right.
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In order to do all the work and make it happen faster. You used to have to put a dot on your face, glue it so the computer would read it and then match it later on. Now it uses the pores of your face just to match it like that. So we would have two monitors as we were shooting. One monitor was the way we really looked. And the other monitor with just about a nanosecond's lag time.
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was us in the deepfake technology. So on one monitor, I'm a 67-year-old man, you know, pretending he's in high school. Yeah. And on the other monitor, I'm 17 years old. That's unbelievable.
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Are you prepared for that experience? I've seen just enough of it. And seeing me at that age, it has finally answered the question for me, which is no wonder I never got laid.
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So what we did actually have to examine this probably more than you ever do on a movie because we had to literally go right. And we had technicians that were looking at our skin and stuff like that. But we also had to look at the timing and the cadence of what it is, because there is I don't know what the actual name of it, but there is there is a factor. I can't remember what it's called.
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We thought that we were speaking at a very realistic cadence and then we would go watch a playback. And it was as slow as molasses. It just took forever. Bob would say, it's like the cinematic time slip. It seems like it's fast, but it plays in real time. So that's one of the things we discovered about it that didn't make it any more fun to sit there and look at ourselves dressed up as we were.
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On every movie I've done, I think I've worked with Stephen five times. Let's see, Ryan and The Terminal and Catch Me If You Can. Bridge of Spies.
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Is there another one in there? I can't recall. Is there another one in there? Um, and he always does this thing. I, I wake up and I see, you know, uh, Steven uses the screenplays of Steven's movies are the most basic blueprints. They are not, uh, they're not the Rosetta stones. They are not like set down.
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So it'll come and there'll be a lot of dialogue and, you know, you do this and explain this and you get there. And, uh, um, And I'll go, man, there's an awful lot of stuff in there. I think I'd like to cut that. I'd like to cut that. And I'd like to cut that. And then I get to work and Steve will say, OK, here's the shot. We're going to start here and the camera's going to be right here.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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I doubt the last, the last couple of gigs, the last, the last couple of gigs that I've had, I said, I said, when everybody is in town, we did this on bridge of spies and also about mostly just on bridge of spies. I said, look, I'll get, we'll get together with all the guys. Oh, we did on the post.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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We did the post together, did the same thing with the post, get everybody together and we'll read through some of the scenes. And I'll just explain, said, listen, everybody, there are some days that,
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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that we will come to work and we will have all of this stuff memorized and we'll be hot, we will have read through it, we'll be prepared, and we will get to the stage, and Stephen will have done all that work for us. We don't have to do anything except inhabit the space, because Stephen is telling the story from the cinematic perspective, where the camera is and what he's doing.
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It's not even gonna matter yet. But then there'll be other times, my friends, When we will show up and we'll know it all. And we need to know it because we have to get there. When we shot the stuff on the Glamica Bridge, on Bridge of Spies, which was the real place where the spies were exchanged. Crazy. We were freezing to death. It was very, very cold.
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And Stephen came up to us and said, hey, I hope you guys know all your lines because I haven't the slightest idea how we're going to shoot this. And I just turned to all the guys and said, what did I tell you? And then he's the most malleable guy. Well, what if we stand here, Steven? What if we come out here? What if he comes out? Great, great, great, great.
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Oh, that's a great idea because they're not going to come. And then he's very excited about it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Trust me. Okay. Let me ask you a question. Outside of celebrities, what is the hardest amount of research you had to do before someone came in and talked for it? Where did you guys all have to get educated on what they're going to be talking about?
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I'm just going to guess Pacino was a bunt, I'm going to say, because, you know. Well, I read his book. You love the Pacino, right?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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But no, there are people who I'm not like somebody like coming to like an astrophysicist or something like that. Oh, no, I am an astrophysicist.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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She just had a, she had dropped a new, dropped a new record as the kids say, just last Friday, all the time.
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She did a, she did a bunch of duets from the seventies with Eric, uh, excuse me, uh, with Elvis Costello and Tim McGraw and, and, uh, Jackson Brown and Smokey Robinson. No, she blows me away. What I love is that I love going on stuff with her jobs, you know, because I don't work, man. The most that is expected of me is to carry her lip gloss. You know, I'm not working.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Just, honey, do you need your lip gloss? You know, that's about all I have to do. Then I get free tickets to the show. It's pretty great.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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OK, so this this is a problem. This is like striking terror in the in the hearts of anybody connected with marketing, you know, with the studio or even my crack publicity teams. Essentially, the the ladies who work for me part time that are outside right now. The idea that this is playing only in theaters.
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And you really do need, it's best to watch it on the biggest screen possible because there is so much stuff going on screen. It's like, oh my God, this is the worst thing. How are we going to do that? I believe people understand how movies work. No, but you don't understand. The whole zeitgeist has changed. We don't have what social significance and motion pictures have anymore.
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Do they go to, I hope they go to Alamo Drafthouse. I hope this place is Alamo Drafthouse. You know, it's like... All you have to do is put out there that you're playing only in theaters and let's see what happens. We'll go on from there. But this is what we do down at the office. Literally, we should do, this is all we do.
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I mean, every show business atmosphere I'm in, we sit around like we're on a podcast and say this story, that story, what's the name, how that happened, do that. That's essentially how we work in show business. And it's been that way since I was in high school.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And it's rare. Oh, well, it was best said to me by Darlene Love, right? Darlene Love. We all know Darlene Love from all the other records. I was on the Letterman show. Mm-hmm. For the Christmas, the Christmas show. Every year she would come on and sing It's Christmas, that fabulous, fabulous, fabulous song.
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And I was there and it's like, oh, you can go into hair and makeup as soon as Darlene Love is on. Darlene Love is here? You know, it's like, oh my God.
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What am I going to say? I got to go meet darling love. And so I went in and she was sitting there and said, oh, hi. Hi, Miss Love. Well, hello, Tom. So nice to meet you. My goodness. It's just so fantastic. And thank you for your records from the get-go, all the stuff that you have done. And I reeled off some of her stuff that she appreciated.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And just the fact that you are still here sharing your voice and your gift with us, your spot on this show singing this song is one of the highlights of my year. So I'm just so glad that you're here. And she said, oh honey, I'm just here for the hang. And ain't that a thing? Yeah, yeah. You know? I get that. Yeah, yeah. It's here for the hang. So thanks for hanging, guys. That was great.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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You know what? You're welcome, Tom. You really owe us one. So here, I'll say, okay, so hi, my name is Tom Hanks, and I feel cuckoo about being Conan O'Brien. No, no. My name is Tom Hanks, and I feel joyful about being Conan O'Brien's friend. Is that good? Yeah. Okay, one more time. Hi. Hi, my name is Tom Hanks, and I feel competitive about being Conan O'Brien's friend.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Remember this, this, this thing, this thing in show business happened. The thing of ours. The thing of ours. When you didn't have to drive to a studio and work with the segment producer and put you, have your hair, have your bald spot covered and, you know, wear free clothes that, you know, Zinnia is giving you. And then you had to go.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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And then you didn't have to do that anymore because you do a podcast from your house with a decent microphone. And now we're back on TV.
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out of band I said you fuckers we're right back and listen we're going to need a warm up comic it's going on NBC yeah it's going to be on NBC at 1235 it is alright I want to make sure I get you out of here because we have a lot to oh I don't I've got plenty of time I'll give you a ride home
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
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Hey, bud. Yeah. By the way, have you been to Conan's house? Yes. We have competitions in the neighborhood. Who has the longest house? You mean as you're driving up the street, which house takes the longest to drive past the start of the property line and the end of the property line?
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I think you've got like two and a half miles of property. I do.
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Now, it used to be, you know, Jerry Lewis used to live on the block. Did he really? Yes, yeah. Are we on yet? So I won't say what the address is. But at one point, because I saw this old thing and I ran, you meet Jerry Lewis and you think, first of all, that's a surreal experience. Yeah. All into it. It's a hang time. You know, my God, Jerry knows my name. Isn't that crazy?
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And I said, is it true or not? Did you live in our neighborhood? And he said, the number of the of the number of the house. And it's a it's a brick, a white red brick, white house. And it is almost as long as yours is. And I just think because I saw this. You know, he was really into like making home movies and stuff like that. And he used to do kooky things. And I saw this one thing.
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Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh drove up and did kooky things on their lawn as they were coming into a party at his house. So how's that for a neighborhood? He would make films.
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Right there. Right there. And, you know, he had a radio station and he had, I think he had restaurants and stuff. He had a podcast for a while. A true sign. A very early version. A true sign that it's over. I was at once. And by the way, you find this thing. Maybe I was at like a thing.
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They were showing one of his movies and we all kind of like went in order to vet him, you know, celebrate him a little bit. And someone someone got up. He had a question and answer. And somebody asked him about the video tap, the world famous video tap, because he was directing movie. He was the first got one of the first guys to star in and direct his own movies.
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And he had to have a video tap, meaning that he was the first guy to put a TV monitor matching what the camera saw. So there was a cable coming from the camera camera and ran into a TV. And everybody thought this is amazing. He said it was, but I didn't pay. What do you mean? I had no playback. I just had to look when I was doing a thing with his stuff, and it looks good, and now let's do it.
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But then I do it, and I couldn't see it until the dailies. And I said, actually, now if he hadn't invented videotape, that would have... He would have gotten the Nobel Prize along with everything else. He would have got it all. Jerry Lewis. How did we get talking about Jerry Lewis?
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You know what? You are too, you could so tall, you might be able to crawl through the razor wire. if you know how to do that.
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Think about everybody else, because on that, there's a lot of people that come there to to walk that that, you know, it's a long line. And they're all kind of like bicycle weenie geeks, you know, guys with six thousand dollar mountain bikes and on your left. you know, as they're going up and coming down. But they're gonna see you. I mean, you're as tall as Big Bird, for crying out loud. I know.
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And they're gonna say, I believe I saw Conan O'Brien struggling up the hill.
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Okay, go ahead. As a lay historian, I'll come in and get the record straight. There were members of the party.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
144 - The Hollow Earth Cult Nobody’s Talking About (Until Now)
And they're like, oh my God!
Ninjas Are Butterflies
144 - The Hollow Earth Cult Nobody’s Talking About (Until Now)
Sure, then I'll do that. 700 grapes. Agreed.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
144 - The Hollow Earth Cult Nobody’s Talking About (Until Now)
What happened to it?
Ninjas Are Butterflies
144 - The Hollow Earth Cult Nobody’s Talking About (Until Now)
Ja, das ist wahr.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
144 - The Hollow Earth Cult Nobody’s Talking About (Until Now)
YouTube's like, keep going, keep going, see what happens. I do.
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Speaking of church, can I say something? If more folks went to church, we wouldn't be in this mess we're in now. You know what? I agree with you, Doug. I'd like to shake your hand, sir. Here we go. Oh, no, no. Oh, no, no. It's just a handshake.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2140 - Trump & Vance WRECK Europe
Oh, well, all right. Well, thank you, my brother. You know, maybe I'll start a show for you to come on and we'll call it What Jeopardy?