Tom Hanks only understood the magnitude of what he took on when he saw Austin Butler in full Elvis Presley garbs.
26.05.2022 - 02:37 / etcanada.com
Ellen DeGeneres is taking viewers back to the start. On Wednesday, the talk show host gave audiences the ultimate throwback when she unveiled 20-year-old test footage she used to help sell “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” to network execs. Dated Sept. 13, 2002, it gave networks a mini-show featuring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt and Alanis Morissette.
Set in DeGeneres’ home, the host sits across from her famous friends and of course, hilarity ensues, with a “Castaway”-era Hanks making show suggestions and DeGeneres even attempting to cut off a piece of Morissette’s signature long locks.
“We have put together – I hope you find it entertaining – a little package, a little show, because I thought that it was important to show sort of the direction that I’m thinking,” DeGeneres tells the camera. “So, I wanted to make sure that you understand, sort of, that I can do this, because I feel so excited about it and I can’t wait to do it.”
She continues, “So, I called up some friends, and I said, ‘Would you mind coming over to my house?'”
The test footage then cuts to DeGeneres across from an excited Hanks, who asks the future host of the titular talk show if she’s planning to have a band with her onstage.
“Here’s the question you must answer: Band? Yes or no?” Hanks asks. “Witty banter with a piano player?”
“Why don’t you and Alanis – she’s next – why don’t you and Alanis be my house band?” DeGeneres suggests.
The quips continue when DeGeneres, scissors in hand, attempts to cut Morissette’s hair.
“I really wanna talk about your hair, when’s the last time you cut it?” DeGeneres asks.
“It’s been a while. It’s due for a little trim,” Morissette admits.
“Is it?” an excited DeGeneres asks before pulling out the scissors. “I’m just curious – how
Tom Hanks only understood the magnitude of what he took on when he saw Austin Butler in full Elvis Presley garbs.
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staring at the masterpiece.“It was my 40th-something birthday. We were shooting in the Louvre at night.
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upcoming biopic “Elvis.”The 65-year-old Oscar winner discussed why he decided to portray him — and how director Baz Luhrmann convinced him to do so — at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.“I’m not interested in playing a bad guy just for the sake of, ‘Before I kill you, Mr. Bond, perhaps you’d like a tour of my installations.’ That’s OK, I get it, but that’s for other stuff,” the “Forrest Gump” actor noted via People.Hanks donned prosthetics and hefty cosmetics to become the real-life legend, though he confessed at the French film fest that he “did not know what Colonel Tom Parker looked like.”He added that Luhrmann described the Colonel as a “great carney,” or carnival worker.“The carney’s job is to bring people to the glittering lights on the outside of town, promise them something they’ve never experienced before, and then, almost giving it to them, at a cost,” he said.