Tom Hanks is not a fan of some of his filmography.
In an interview published with New Yorker On Sunday, the 66-year-old actress discussed how unfair judgment might be after watching a movie for the first time.
However, he added The Making of Another Great Cinematic Masterpiece writes, “Let’s face it: We’ve all seen movies we hate. I’ve been in some movies I hate. You’ve seen some of my movies and you hate them.”
As for how a movie is generally received, “Someone will say, ‘I hated it.’ Other people might say, ‘I think that’s great.’ The movie is actually somewhere in between,” explained the Oscar-winning actor, “the five points of the Rubicon that everyone who makes a movie goes through. referring to this idea as “Rubicon No. 3” in the list.
“The first Rubicon you go through says yes to the movie. … You’ll be in that movie,” Hanks said. “The second Rubicon is when you actually see the movie you’ve made. It either works and it’s the movie you want to make, or it doesn’t work and it’s not the movie you want to make.”
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“The commercial performance of the movie,” Hanks told the fourth Rubicon, “because if it doesn’t make money, your career will be ruined sooner than you’d like. That’s the truth.”
And the fifth and final Rubicon is when the player explains with examples including: it’s a wonderful lifeHis own 1996 film, which became more popular and beloved long after its 1946 release. This is what you do!written, directed and acted.
“I loved making that movie,” Hanks said. “I loved writing it, I loved being with him. I love all the people in it. When it came out, it was totally rejected by the first wave of vox populi. It didn’t do much. It just hung around for a while. It’s kind of weird, half-replica of nine other movies and little beautiful in memories lane. It was seen as a tour.
“The same publications that now dismissed it in their initial reviews called it the ‘Tom Hanks’ cult classic, This is what you did!’ So it’s a cult classic now,” he added. “What was the difference between these two things? The answer is time.”
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Hanks’ comments on his own movies come after he admitted earlier this year that he couldn’t watch some of them.
As the actor said in a January episode Great Creators with Guy Raz The podcast, “I wrestle with authenticity. I’m grappling with the difference between lying for a living as an actor and lying to myself as a person.”
Hanks soon said he hadn’t seen some of his own movies, including his “big hits,” because he saw “the wrong thing in them.” , I missed this opportunity.’ ”
“And not because I chose not to right now – it was because after the work was done I realized I hadn’t gone far enough. I didn’t go where I could have gone.” .