Tom Hanks hopes Here will teach people ‘the importance of being in the moment’
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Actor Tom Hanks has said he hopes new film Here will teach audiences “the importance of being in the moment”. The film, which tells the story of several generations of people who live on one plot of land over the course of a century, sees the 68-year-old reunited with Forrest Gump co-star Robin Wright, screenwriter Eric Roth and director Robert Zemeckis.
Speaking about what he hoped viewers would learn from the film, Hanks told the PA news agency: “I think the impermanence of what happens is something we just have to accept as part of the human condition, right?. “The truth is, yesterday means nothing because there’s nothing we can do to change it, and tomorrow, it means nothing because there’s no way we can predict what’s going to be.
“All we can do is exist in the today. “We were talking about Michelle Dockery’s character, (who) lived over 100 years ago, Ben Franklin in the Revolutionary War, that was 200 years ago, we have people that lived 6,000 years ago, and nobody knew that they were living in the past.
“Nobody knew that they were doing something other than dealing with what needed to be done right then and now. “There’s an awful lot of philosophy you can jam into that reality, and I think it’s manifested from the very first moment of the film, when Robin and I walk in as our older selves to an empty house void of anything that could be a memory other than what we’re carrying along in our heads.
