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1 Sep, 2001

O Magazine interview

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Hanks speaksĀ about how he got the Forrest Gump role:

I was fascinated by a script entitled The Postman, which was written by Eric Roth. I didn’t do that script, but I met Eric and we shared a lot of the same parameters of why we do what we do. So when a producer asked me, What do you think of the book Forrest Gump? [which Roth was writing a script for], I said, That guy can write anything! About a year and a half later, I got Eric’s scriptā€”and it was a rocket.

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