EXCLUSIVE: Tom Hanks 'Larry Crowne' interview
Legendary two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks returns behind the camera for the only the second time in his distinguished feature film career. Arriving fifteen years after his directorial debut,
That Thing You Do!,
Larry Crowne sees Hanks take the title role – a blue-collar divorcee who finds himself laid off from his store job in the midst of the global economic recession. To cope, he decides to go back to college as a mature student and gain a degree. Enrolling in two classes – economics and public speaking – he not only becomes a favourite of fellow pupil Talia (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) but even takes a shine to his tutor, the frosty Mercedes Tainoit (Julia Roberts). Reuniting Hanks with Roberts – last seen together in
Charlie Wilson’s War –
Larry Crowne emerges as a charming romantic comedy that deals with contemporary issues in a deft way. Below Hanks talks about why it took so long to direct again, why he cast his
Larry Crowne co-writer Nia Vardalos as the voice of the Sat-Nav and reveals all about his mouth-watering collaboration with the Wachowskis,
Cloud Atlas.
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