Tom Hanks has revealed one scene from the 2000 action adventure film ‘Cast Away’ that was ‘painful’ to watch.
This cult classic film tells the story of Chuck Noland (Hanks), a FedEx employee whose plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean on his way to Malaysia.
Chuck is stranded on a deserted island with only his companion, a volleyball, and tries to survive and return to civilization.
Before boarding the plane, Chuck’s girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) presents Chuck with a pocket watch with a photo of herself on it. Four years later, he returns home and visits Kelly’s home to give something back in return, in a touching scene.
“There’s a moment, in ‘Castaway,’ where I come back and Chuck comes back to Kelly’s house and he gives Kelly his watch back, and that was painful for me,” the “Toy Story” franchise star, 69, shared on Wednesday’s podcast “The Rest Is Entertainment.” “And there are moments when I think I’m not there.”
The actor said he made a “fake” gesture to the character, saying it was actually more him than Chuck.
“And if a movie is playing, I’m going to get up and leave the room before that scene starts,” the star confessed.
Hanks didn’t know what happened until he saw the movie for the first time.
Cast Away was nominated for two Oscars, including Best Actor for Hanks in 2001. However, the Hollywood icon lost out to Russell Crowe for his performance in Gladiator.
However, Hanks won Best Actor at the 2001 Golden Globe Awards. And the project is still proving popular with fans 26 years after it first debuted.
In May, Hanks attended a game between the New York Yankees and the New York Mets, with the latter team’s mascot dressed as a volleyball player named Wilson from the film.
A clip from the Citi Field game showed a large red handprint drawn on Mr. Met’s face, set to the movie’s bloody volleyball.
The two shook Hanks’ hand and shouted “Wilson,” Chuck’s famous line in his 2000 hit.
In 2022, the Oscar winner held up a bloody volleyball while throwing out the first pitch at a game between the Cleveland Guardians and the San Francisco Giants.
Two years later, in a 2024 interview with Reel Blend, Hanks said that Wilson became integral to the storyline because there was no reason for Chuck to speak unless he thought someone else was nearby.
Despite the film’s huge success, Hanks was hospitalized during filming and nearly died from a staph infection.
“I was there for three days, believe it or not, because I almost lost my life. I got an infection from the cut and it started eating away at my leg,” he told the BBC in 2009.
