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Tom Hanks Helped Pay To Get Forrest Gump Made

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Proving his credentials as Hollywood’s Mr. Nice, Tom Hanks revealed he paid for some of the production costs of Forrest Gump out of his own pocket. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Hanks discussed his contributions on In Depth With Graham Bensinger. When director Robert Zemeckis approached him and told him the studio wasn’t going to let them shoot the run across America scene, Zemeckis told Hanks to trust him and put up the money with him.

“And he said, ‘Well, this run is going to cost X amount of dollars.’ And it wasn’t cheap. And I said, ‘OK’. He said, ‘You and I are going to split that amount, and

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