I’d say, ‘Make it inch.’ And he was great.” So I’d always say, ‘inch,, Tom.’ No one else knew what I was talking about. “The key words for Tom were ‘innocent’ and ‘shy,’” says Marshall. Now, Marshall had to get Hanks into the childlike state of mind. Co-star Elizabeth Perkins says that due to the similar films, she and Hanks “looked at each other at one point like, ugh - this is going straight to video.”) (Which is not to say that the actor was convinced “Big” would be successful. It can’t be that.’”ĭe Niro left the film, but his brief time on it made it a hot property, and Hanks, then shooting “Dragnet,” was convinced to make “Big” his next project. I’ll take Jim’s salary.’ He’s not stupid, Bob. “He was getting a little annoyed,” says Marshall. Brooks, Marshall says, suggested that Marshall give her salary to De Niro, and she was willing. She did so, especially noting his wildman energy in “Mean Streets” as a plus for Josh, and even worked with De Niro and Jared Rushton, the child actor who played Josh’s friend Billy, in her driveway.īut according to Marshall, the studio wouldn’t pay De Niro’s asking price. To help him grasp this challenging character, De Niro told Marshall to watch all of his films, and highlight aspects of different characters that she wanted to see in Josh. “At the time, he wanted to do a commercial film, and he said yes,” says Marshall, braving the flu to call the Post to discuss her first directorial success. She decided to make adult Josh a real “man man, not a boy man,” and contacted her old friend De Niro. Sean Penn did a great read for Marshall, but was too young for the role.įaced with these rejections, Marshall switched tactics. So Hanks turned down the part, as did Kevin Costner and Randy Quaid. But at the time, there were several other films with similar plots, such as “Vice Versa” and “Like Father, Like Son,” and “Big” seemed to many like a sure-fire failure. Hanks was the first actor offered the role of the adult version of Josh Baskin, the boy who is granted his life-changing wish by a fortune-telling machine called Zoltar Speaks, by Marshall. The film, shot in and around New York City, was briefly set to star Harrison Ford at first, with Steven Spielberg directing - his sister, Anne Spielberg, co-wrote the film with Gary Ross - but the pair dropped out, and Penny Marshall took over as director. The classic age-switch movie “Big,” released in 1988, made a star and an Oscar nominee out of Tom Hanks, who played the grown-up (in body only) version of a 13-year-old boy whose wish to be big comes true.īut the film, which receives a special 25th anniversary Blu-Ray release on December 10, almost took a very different road to adulthood, as Robert De Niro was once set to play the boy-turned-manchild. Hanks for nothing! Tom admits he's appeared in some movies he 'hates' Tom Hanks reveals the bizarre reason why he turned down 'When Harry Met Sally' role The three zodiac signs that are big liars, according to an astrologer Sailor and dog miraculously survive on rainwater, raw fish while adrift for two months
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