Tom Hanks Shares The One Movie Scene He Can Never Rewatch

Toy Story star Tom Hanks has shared the movie moment he can never watch back.

On a recent episode of The Rest Is Entertainment podcast, co-hosted by Richard Osman and Marina Hyde, Tom was asked about the best movie he’d ever made.

The Forrest Gump actor replied: “I do not watch these movies after the first time, really, because they never change. And there are movies that have moments in it that I cannot watch, because I didn’t get there.

“And sometimes these are the big moments. I simply did not get there,” he shared, suggesting that he didn’t feel the emotion the scene required.

“And I know it, and I was confounded by any number of things,” he continued.

Richard asked him to name one such moment, to which he replied: “There is a moment. Okay. Yeah, I’ll tell you.”

“There is a moment… that was painful for me in Cast Away in which I am back and Chuck [the main character played by Tom] is back in Kelly [his on-screen fiancée, played by Helen Hunt]’s house.

“And he gives her her watch back. And there’s a moment where I just think, ‘I’m not there’. All it is is a turnaround on me. But I do this gesture that I just think is false, and is me, and is not Chuck,” he stated.

Tom said that the scene is so hard for him to watch back, he has to physically leave when it’s playing.

“If the movie is on, I will get up and leave the room before that scene comes on,” he shared with the hosts.

Marina asked him if he knew he’d feel that way at the time of filming, to which Tom replied he didn’t.

“It wasn’t until I actually saw it, when it went down. And I think that, ‘oh, we were just moving on there and I wasn’t there’,” he revealed.

Still, that’s not to say the Oscar winner isn’t proud of any of his output.

“When I happen to land on a couple of minutes of an old episode of [TV show] Bosom Buddies, I remember all of [co-star Peter Scoleri]’s lines.

“I have no idea what I say next, but because I was watching him do it, we were so close and we were so tight. So the only time [feeling proud about a rewatch] happens [is when I think], ‘I don’t remember doing that’.

“But it’s not a thing. I can’t linger on [old success]. I don’t sit there and say, ‘oh, watch this movie, watch this moment that comes up, we really nailed that’,” he ended.

“All I could say [is], ‘I was cold.’ You know, ‘it looks like I’m warm… I was really freezing that day’, you know, something like that…”

You can watch the interview in full here.