Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis" took the No. 1 spot at the box office after a close tie with "Top Gun: Maverick," with "Elvis" reporting $31.1 million in weekend sales.
24.06.2022 - 02:19 / foxnews.com
Tom Hanks is a certified wedding crasher. The "Forrest Gump" star, 65, shared during Tuesday’s episode of "Late Night With Seth Meyers" that his ego goes "unchecked" when he crashes people’s wedding photos. "It’s my ego, unchecked," Hanks said.
"I just can’t help but think, ‘What would these people like more than anything else to remember this magic day of days? Oh, I know: me!’" Tom Hanks explained why he loves crashing weddings on "Late Night With Seth Meyers." (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) Hanks was a guest on the talk show to promote his latest biopic, "Elvis," which stars Austin Butler as the late music icon. After Hanks admitted his love for wedding crashing, Meyers aired a series of photo bombs. Some of the images dated to the early 2000s. Hanks took his wedding photobombing international while filming "Angels & Demons" in Rome.
Hanks crashed a wedding by mistake when the Pantheon was booked for a wedding service the same day the crew was scheduled to film. Tom Hanks and Austin Butler star in the "Elvis" biopic releasing Friday. (Brendon Thorne/Getty Images) "This limousine pulled up, and it was the bride and the groom trying to ‘get me to the church on time,’" Hanks began. "And they couldn’t do it because we had all this stuff going on.
It was like, ‘Uh, how do we fix this?’ So, like a stalker, you know, ‘Hey miss, miss, miss!’ I knocked on the window, I said, ‘Hey listen, we have a thing, but would you do me the honor of escorting you to your bridal altar?’ So we did it!" In March, Hanks photobombed a bridal party’s photo shoot outside the Fairmont Hotel in Pittsburgh. Grace Gwaltney, the bride, revealed she was "shocked" to see Hanks. "He was like, 'Hey! I'm Tom Hanks. I would love to get a photo with you,'
.Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis" took the No. 1 spot at the box office after a close tie with "Top Gun: Maverick," with "Elvis" reporting $31.1 million in weekend sales.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDirector Baz Luhrmann hoped “Elvis” would be much more than a biopic of Elvis Presley — he wanted to capture a time with a social history of this captivating figure that also told the story of America.Starring Austin Butler as Elvis and Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker, his manager, “Elvis” spans two decades. The backdrop is America’s Southern bible belt, the evolving cultural landscape, and the rock ‘n’ roller’s meteoric rise to stardom.Costume designer Catherine Martin explains there are two costume styles in the movie — “recreations of costumes that existed, and the other fictionalized outfits that are a synthesis of outfits that he actually had that help tell the story.” The pink suit rockabilly suit Butler sports was just one of 90 costumes he wore.
Tom Hanks has opened up about crashing other people’s weddings and joked about how his appearances at ceremonies is what makes them more memorable. The 65-year-old actor discussed how he has crashed multiple weddings during an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers on Tuesday.
No one loves crashing a wedding more than Tom Hanks!
wedding-crashing on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” Tuesday, where the show’s host hyped him as a “man of many hats.”Namely that, whether he’s “invited [to the ceremony] or not,” Hanks is an avid wedding photobomber.The beloved — but recently controversial — film legend revealed his extreme nuptials-going hobby while appearing as a guest to promote his role in the biopic “Elvis,” featuring Austin Butler, 30, as the late music legend.“It’s my ego, unchecked,” said Hanks of his wedding crashing. “I just can’t help but think, ‘What would these people like more than anything else to remember this magic day of days? Oh, I know: me!’ ”Of course, Meyers, 48, screened a montage of Hank’s best wedding-crasher moments, with some dating back to the early 2000s — and a few even taking place internationally.Most notably, when in Rome filming “Angels & Demons,” Hanks accidentally crashed a ceremony because the Pantheon was booked by a wedding the same day they were filming.“This limousine pulled up, and it was the bride and the groom trying to ‘get me to the church on time,’” Hanks said, singing the last phrase.
Tom Hanks is “a man of many hats,” one being “a man who will show up at a wedding, invited or not.”
RadioTimes.com. The director’s latest biopic clocks in at a runtime of two hours and 39 minutes.
Elvis Presley.Baz Luhrmann — director of the upcoming biopic “Elvis” — recently revealed that he has a much longer cut of the musical drama.“I mean, I have a four-hour version, actually,” the Australian filmmaker, 59, told Radio Times.He also noted that there were a lot of extra scenes he wanted to include that would have helped complete the story of Elvis, portrayed by Austin Butler. However, there are serious time constraints. “You have to bring it down to 2 hours 30 [minutes],” he said.“I would have liked to lean into some of the other things more,” Luhrmann went on.
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