US actor was speaking at the Dalkey Book Festival and discussed his debut novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
‘I can’t believe we’re living here’: Historic Wexford cottage that was at risk of falling into decline is restoredThe Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks: It’s hard to get the actor’s voice out of your headA stellar screen actor, a writer too, who seems just as nice in this version of reality as most of the characters he plays on screen, he was at the festival to talk about his first novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece.
In a lively one hour conversation Hanks was animated and entertaining, gesticulating, going in and out of voices and accents as he told stories about a life in movies, the world in which his first novel is set. Another accent sounded a bit cockney, from the special effects guy during filming Saving Private Ryan years ago in Co Wexford. He told a story about a costar, on his first job out of acting school, who was terrified, couldn’t swim, almost drowned and was fearful of being blinded by a projectile. “A good day’s work on a motion picture.” This was the last time he was in Ireland, having first visited in 1985 on a promo tour for Splash.
He talked about his love of typewriters – there’s one on a desk on the altar – because what is typewritten “will last a thousand years, if you don’t burn it. It stays forever.” He didn’t write a full proof of his book on a typewriter, but “many notes, and pages and ramblings” that ended up in the novel were stamped out with the typewriter’s hammer.
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