Tom Hanks reportedly earned a staggering $40 million for his role in the Oscar-winning film Forrest Gump.
The 66-year-old Hollywood actor starred in the hit film and won his second consecutive Best Actor Oscar.
The film was adapted from Winston Groom’s then-little-known novel of the same name, which both became the highest-grossing film of 1994 and also won Best Picture at the Oscars.
Tom earned $40 million for starring in the film after negotiating a specific clause in his contract, which allowed him to earn revenue based on a portion of box office receipts rather than a lump sum for his role as ‘actor.
Both Tom and Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis earned extra money after each investing their own funds to preserve scenes from the film that Paramount Pictures weren’t willing to pay for.
Impressive: Tom Hanks reportedly earned a staggering $40 million for his role in Oscar-winning film Forrest Gump
Hanks’ official earnings records have never been shared, but it’s believed the star could have walked away with a total of $60 million for his role in the film.
The film was produced on a modest budget of $55 million, but then took the box office by storm, earning $330.4 million domestically and $678.2 million worldwide.
Forrest Gump was nominated for 13 Oscars, including six for Best Picture, Best Actor (Hanks), Best Director (Robert Zemeckis), Best Adapted Screenplay (Eric Roth), Best Film Editing and Best Visual Effects. .
Tom revealed last year that he wasn’t entirely sure of the now iconic bus bench scenes.
Hanks was promoting his new movie Elvis in an interview with CinemaBlend, when he admitted he didn’t think anyone would be interested in Forrest Gump’s bus bench scenes.
The bus bench scenes are the film’s anchor, with the main character of Hanks regaling strangers with various stories throughout his incredible life.
Career: The 66-year-old Hollywood actor starred in the hit film and won his second consecutive Best Actor Oscar for it.
Still, he never really understood the weight of those scenes and said he wasn’t even sure how they would be used in the film.
“I’ll tell you, in Forrest Gump, everything we shot on the park bench in Savannah, Georgia, we were just shooting fodder for a possible narrative element,” Hanks admitted.
“And I said to Bob (Zemeckis), ‘Is anybody going to care about that nut sitting on a (bench)? What is this ? Nobody knows what’s in that (box), I mean,” Hanks added.
“We ended up shooting, it was probably, you know, 13 pages of dialogue that we had to shoot in a day and a half,” Hanks admitted.
“It was written on index cards, (and) I didn’t need it after a while because we got into it,” Hanks said, before revealing what the director told him about it. scenes.
“But Bob says, ‘I don’t know, it’s a minefield, Tom, it’s a minefield. You never know what people are going to take away from it!” And it ends up being, you know, that thing,” Hanks said.
Fan favorites: The film was adapted from Winston Groom’s then-little-known novel of the same name, which both became the highest-grossing film of 1994 and also won Best Picture at the Oscars.
Tom has appeared in 85 stunning films over his 50-year career.
He shared that he thought only four of them were “pretty good.” But Hollywood actors declined to name them.
Besides Forrest Gump, some of his best films have been Big, Sleepless In Seattle, Philadelphia, Saving Private Ryan, You’ve Got Mail, Cast Away, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, and Elvis. His next film is Pinocchio.
“I’ve done a ton of movies, and four of them are pretty good, I think, and I’m always amazed at how the movies come together. From the flickering idea to the flickering image on screen, the whole process is a miracle,” he shared with People.
