Tom Hanks Put In His Own Money To Finance Some Scenes For 'Forrest Gump'

Tom Hanks put in his own money to finance some of the parts of Forrest Gump.

In a new interview, the 64-year-old actor opened up about investing some of his own money into the film that would go on to earn him the Oscar for Best Actor.

One of the scenes that Tom backed, along with filmmaker Robert Zemeckis was the run across America.

“And [Zemeckis] said ‘Well, this run is going to cost X amount of dollars.’ And it wasn’t cheap. And I said ‘ok,’” he shared on In Depth with Graham Bensinger. “He said, ‘You and I are going to split that amount, and we’re going to give it back [to Paramount]. We’ll give you the money back, but you guys [Paramount] are going to have to share the profits a little bit more.’ Which the studio said ‘Fabulous, great. ok.’ And it was good for us, too.”

The deal gave both Tom and Robert a larger percentage of the film’s box office gross, and eventually earned them about $65 million in profits from the movie.

Listen to Tom‘s full interview about the film below:

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