By Chris Langlois (Chrisdfw) (12.239.86.117) on Tuesday, June 25, 2002 - 02:36 pm:

Colin Hanks at the AFI Lifetime Award for his father.

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MTV Movie Awards 2002 - Colin Hanks




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By Iines (Iines) (195.197.127.135) on Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 03:33 pm:

So he is Tom Hanks's son. It's really hard to imagine that, i didn't believe it when i heard it first time. He doesn't somehow looks like Tom any more. In fact i didn't even know that Tom have a son.
Great that he got a role in BoB, it was very intresting to see him

Iines

By Leo Escobar (Freesialeo) (202.81.171.33) on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 12:29 pm:

I couldn't believe he's Tom Hank's son! (I mean besides the fact of his last name.. I thought he was just another "Hanks" in Hollywood!) When I watched B.O.B. I thought boy, that guy looks like the guy from Roswell!
Amazing!

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By Chris Langlois (Chrisdfw) (12.239.81.247) on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 10:32 pm:

UK interview with Colin Hanks (Sunday Times)
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December 01, 2002

Life’s no box of chocolates for son of Gump
Actor Colin Hanks tells Jasper Gerard of his teenage hatred for his superstar father Tom


Sons of the celebrated tend to suffer: look at Prince Charles. But their agonies differ. Some take smack until they rattle off to the Priory, and are widely resented; others renounce the pickings of privilege, and are also widely resented. Colin Hanks, currently wowing the West End in the play This Is Our Youth, wants to break that mould.
If you didn’t clock the surname, one glance at those lost-puppy eyes confirms he is Tom Hanks’s son. Helped by a dressing room that could be a bedsit in a regional outpost (blue swirly carpet, dirty salmon walls), Colin is doing a passable impression of normal.

It’s hard to resent this child of a superstar who came to fame playing a transvestite in an American sitcom. “In the States,” Colin reflects, “my father was known as the guy who wore dresses on TV. Then it was Gump, and I was son of Gump. When I ran people shouted, ‘Run Forrest, run’. But this is not, ‘Oh God, pity me, life sucks’. You laugh. There are more important things to think about.”

Supporting himself, for instance: he has no trust fund. For his 18th birthday, he was given the family’s five-year-old runabout rather than a Merc. “People have this idea of ‘Hollywood royalty’ — we are far from that.” Did he ever do teen rebellion? “I went through that thing of hating my father. It’s all part of the package.”

Hanks Sr admits that throughout Colin’s youth he “did not have a clue how to be a father”. His son insists the hatred was nothing personal. “It doesn’t matter who they are, you just can’t stand them: he could have been Bo Peep.”

Whatever “issues” Colin’s had, he has worked them out. “It is your responsibility to ground your kids. That’s what my parents did and it enabled me from an early age to step aside, look at other kids and say, ‘Oh yeah, I can see why we were raised this way’.”

In the play his character goes into rehab. Colin has no need. “I’ve been fortunate to have avoided the clichés,” he acknowledges. “It’s due to the way I was raised. There were lots of kids I saw after high school derailed. Their parents spoilt them rotten and now they are paying the price, unfortunately.”

The ordinariness of his childhood in suburban California is not just down to dad’s puritanism: for years the Hankses simply weren’t that rich. “We lived in a two-bedroom house in the San Fernando Valley. It was fun, making toys and using my imagination. I didn’t know people had huge mansions. My dad struggled with bills and had family to support.”

It’s ironic, then, that he seems to play the part of a messed-up rich kid from the heart, ranting (perhaps a decibel too raucously) in true nihilistic fashion. Yes he’s the product of a “broken marriage” but while his parents divorced when he was seven, they remain on speaking terms. Both were here for his West End debut and his 25th birthday.

Having Tom Hanks for a father, says Colin, helped “get my foot in the door, but it has never landed me a job or given me any security”. So is it a hindrance? “Because this is just my position in life, I don’t see the big deal. In every article ‘Tom’s boy’ appears before my name. That’s part of the game. It amuses me people make such a big deal of it.”

Papa never pulled strings, but would Colin have appreciated help? “No. That’s how we were raised. You never take advantage: there is a proper way.”

That’s not to say he doesn’t accept Hanks Sr’s advice. “I am not going to do a ‘I’ll do it my way’, and say I’ll spurn his help, as nobody will believe me anyway. I feel proud of having done it on my own but I won’t wear that on my sleeve. It’s futile. I know how I went about it.”

He went about it the sitcom route, like his father before him, until he landed his first film lead in Orange County, a better than average teen flick. “I can’t say I desperately want to make another teen comedy,” he says now. “I made two pretty bad ones before.” (Modest, our Colin: he says he would have been embarrassed by the giant posters of him plastered over America had he not been disguised by two oranges covering his eyes.) “I needed to get back to being an actor. And in the States the idea of the West End — well, it will probably be the most impressive thing I’ll do for a great many years.”

The excitement of the West End, coupled with an excellent script, is “like touring Graceland, with Elvis giving you the tour . . . If you told me in high school I was going to be doing a play in London I would have asked what drugs you were on and could I have some”.

So far he has discovered Guinness and football (he went to watch Manchester United play at West Ham) and enjoys London’s buzz. “I am used to LA where you drive 30 minutes before coming somewhere quasi-interesting.” Living in Soho he is in the thick of the fun. “I have the day to myself, then act for three hours, then go to dinner and am in bed by two.”

His only complaints are early closing and missing his dog Taz and his nearest and dearest. “I had a scare last week when I thought I would have to put Taz down, and that was gut-wrenching. I miss friends and family a whole bunch.”

Will he succeed his father as a Hollywood leading man? His ambition, he insists, is rather to play varied roles and earn a living. “I know I want to do this for the rest of my life. I have no desire to find my niche; I want to be challenged.”

He may not have received direct help, but he has grown up steeped in the realities even of stellar-level acting. When I ask if he has Oscar ambitions, for instance, he says: “You realise it’s just a night. The next morning you wake up and think ‘Now what?’ I have been able to see that from the sidelines.” Similarly, he says: “Without tooting my own horn, I have a good sense of how the business works. I don’t want to make a movie just because it pays a lot.”

A cynic might say he doesn’t need to as he stands to inherit millions, but at least he is not wallowing in smack, unlike his theatrical character. He certainly dislikes “resting”. “When I’m sitting on my couch for a few weeks, I hate it, I want to work. But it’s got to be right. I’m not in it to be on the cover of magazines or be ‘Hollywood royalty’.”

He reflects: “I am very fortunate and none of that is lost on me. Not many people can say they are doing what they want to do.”

Wasn’t he nervous acting with his celebrated father and mother in the stalls? “I just thought, ‘If I suck, they will still love me’.”

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By Li Bernardo (Hotaruanne) (66.185.84.69) on Friday, July 18, 2003 - 08:22 pm:

interesting article thanks for posting that...wow, i had watched colin in 'roswell' and 'orange county' and was surprised that he was in an ep of BoB

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