Thanks to Maria for this.<\/p>\n
\nColin Hanks on Jay Leno<\/p>\n
My next guest is a talented young actor who stars on the alien drama,
\n“Roswell”, on the WB. He’s also starring in the feature film “Get over It”
\nwhich can be seen in a theater near that guy (you). Please welcome Colin
\nHanks!<\/p>\n<<>><\/p>\n
Colin: (to Kevin Eubanks) Can I just say that that was one of the most
\nimpressive guitar solos I’ve ever seen? Amazing guitar solo.<\/p>\nJay: Oh, yeah?<\/p>\n
Colin: Yeah, I just had to say that right away.<\/p>\n
Jay: Do you play guitar?<\/p>\n
Colin: I play the bass guitar, so, but, I mean, any solo of that caliber is
\ndefinitely due praise.<\/p>\nKevin: Oh, thanks, man.<\/p>\n
Jay: Oh (in a different voice, mocking Kevin) You’ll be on again, young man.
\nI think you’re doing quite well in the showbusiness thing.<\/p>\nColin: Thank you. Thank you.<\/p>\n
Jay: I was talking to her (Sigourney Weaver) about the alien thing, you do
\nanother, like, alien..thing…<\/p>\nColin: Yeah, another alien themed program.<\/p>\n
Jay: Are you an alien person? Do you believe in it? Do you hear from, like,
\npeople that want to commune with you?<\/p>\nColin: I-I’ll believe it…until someone disproves it. That sort of thing,
\nyou know, it’s like no one’s said that they definitely don’t exist, no one’s
\nsaid that they actually do exist. So I’m gonna give them the benifit of the
\ndoubt that they *do*, until someone says “Look, they…really don’t exist.”
\nAnd then I’ll say “Alright, well, you’re the wiser.”<\/p>\nJay: That’s fine, and just put it to bed at that point.<\/p>\n
Colin: Just put it to bed at that point, yeah.<\/p>\n
Jay: I mean are you afraid of any of those kind–do you have any fears?<\/p>\n
Colin: I’m deathly afraid of spiders. Arachnophobia is–<\/p>\n
Jay: Spiders, now they proved those are real.<\/p>\n
Colin: (laughs) Those are definitely real, those are definitely real, I’ve
\nhad some horror stories, that just, make me just, absolutely– I see one and
\nI will jump back ten feet.<\/p>\nJay: Really? So if you’re at a girl’s apartment “Colin, there’s a spider in
\nthe tub”, you just *run*.<\/p>\nColin: I run. My girlfriend actually has the job of getting rid of the
\nspiders over me.<\/p>\nJay: Really?<\/p>\n
Colin: I won’t do it. When I was in fifth grade, the fifth grade class where
\nI went to school, had a pet tarantula. And there was sort of this rule that
\nif you wanted to graduate fifth grade, you had to let the tarantula walk over
\nyour hand, or you had to pet the tarantula. I said “Look, I’m not doing that.
\nIf I don’t graduate fifth grade that’s fine, cuz I’m not gonna touch the
\nspider” but when the tarantula had shed, when a tarantula sheds, it almost
\nlooks like there’s another spider.<\/p>\nJay: Well, at least that’s safe.<\/p>\n
Colin: Literally, and it’s intact, and I said “Well, I’m not going to touch
\nthe actual live tarantula, but I’ll touch the other one” so they put it down
\non the table, and for about five minutes I’m getting ready to touch it, and
\n*right* when I’m about to touch it, my friend Dean blows on it, and it moves!
\nAnd I jumped out, and I ran out of the classroom, screaming, crying (in a
\ngoofy voice) “Dean, that was not funny, man! I thought it was dead! It
\nstarted moving and I thought it was alive!” (regular voice) From that point
\non, no, I will not even go close to spiders.<\/p>\nJay: Wow, so you haven’t been to school since fifth grade.<\/p>\n
Colin: (laughs)No, never graduated.<\/p>\n
Jay: Maybe you should go to one of those arachnophobia schools or something,
\nyou know, they put it on your face…<\/p>\nColin: I know, well, you know I watch that on Maury (Povich) every now and
\nagain, and I’m thinking “should I do it?” No, maybe I’ll just apply to
\ncollege.<\/p>\nJay: Sure, sure, you have to kill spiders. That’s the manly thing, because
\nyou know women have all these other things, that’s the only thing left for us
\nguys.<\/p>\nColin: I’ll pass, I’ll pass. No, no, that’s ok. Thanks for the advice, though.<\/p>\n
Jay: OK, Well, I know you from the WB, but I guess, now, your first big break
\nwas your dad’s film, course your dad Tom Hanks, “That Thing You Do”, which I
\nliked, but I don’t remember you in the film.<\/p>\nColin: That’s because I wasn’t…really..in it. Really. It’s funny because,
\nmy dad did a really cool thing, (was) he put me in the credits at the very
\nend of the film, I’m known as “male page”, and I had two scenes, and he wrote
\nthis movie, so I had two scenes with no dialogue. I was escorting Liv Tyler
\nup the stairs to the Hollywood Television showcase, and in the other scene I
\nwas escorting her to her seat. And the scene with the seat was the one, was a
\nlittle bit longer where I’m looking at her and “Yeah, she looks cute” and
\n“OK, that was it” and that was sort of like my big scene. Well, my big scene
\ngot cut, and now it’s just the scene of me just walking up the stairs. And
\nthat’s it.<\/p>\nJay: We have the scene, here’s is your acting debut?<\/p>\n
Colin: My acting debut.<\/p>\n
(They show the small clip of Colin and Liv in “That Thing You Do”)<\/p>\n
Jay:I tell ya, you know, I tell ya–<\/p>\n
Colin: It’s about five seconds. About five seconds…<\/p>\n
Jay: For that brief moment, I actually felt you were walking up those stairs.<\/p>\n
Colin: I was walking up those stairs, I was escorting her to the Hollywood
\nTelevision Showcase. And that’s like you know, “He was in his dad’s movie,
\n“That Thing You Do”, I was in it for five seconds! That’s not anything you
\nshould mention.<\/p>\nJay: No, that’s alright.<\/p>\n
Colin: But no, but I dig that you mentioned it, so now that we can finally
\nclear it–<\/p>\nJay: No, if I can humiliate and degrade you with it, that’s why I’m here.<\/p>\n
Colin: Please, by all means!<\/p>\n
Jay: Now tell us about “Get Over It”.<\/p>\n
Colin: “Get Over It”, uh, the title sort of says it all, it’s about this guy
\nwho’s been dumped by his girlfriend, and he thinks it’s, was, you know, it
\nwas meant to be, and they were supposed to live together happily ever after,
\nand she dumps him and starts dating someone else, and he goes to great
\nlengths to win her back, and actually joins the cast of a musical
\nShakespeare, a musical performance of a Shakespeare play that is horrendous.<\/p>\nJay: To try to win her back.<\/p>\n
Colin: To try to win her back, and of course he doesn’t win her back, and
\nends up falling in love with my kid sister.<\/p>\nJay: Well, here, let’s take a look. We have a scene, here it is. Now what’s
\nhappening here. (pointing to the TV monitor, about to play a clip)<\/p>\nColin: This is me, and our buddy Dennis, played by Sisqo, and Ben Foster, Ben
\nFoster’s the guy that gets dumped, so we’re going to take him out for a good
\nnight on the town.<\/p>\n(They play the clip from “Get Over It” with Carmen Electra)<\/p>\n
Colin: Cuz he wants to see IDs. “Show me your ID or I’ll blow your head off.”<\/p>\n
Jay: I like the gun pulls a gun in a strip club.<\/p>\n
Colin: Yeah, “Let’s see some IDs”.<\/p>\n
Jay: Now have you ever been dumped? Have you been through that whole–<\/p>\n
Colin: I’ve been dumped, yeah, but not anything too bad, I’ve had my heart
\nbroken, yeah, but nothing so bad that–<\/p>\nJay: Wait, we have to pause for an “awwww”. <<>> Did you
\never get this “But we can be friends.”<\/p>\nColin: Oh, I got, Yeah, I got tons of–<\/p>\n
Jay: Con! Con!<\/p>\n
Colin: Tons of ‘friends’ stuff.<\/p>\n
Jay: And do you remain friends, or do you just wanna–<\/p>\n
Colin: No, actually, I’m actually very good at actually remaining friends,
\nand trying to keep in contact–<\/p>\nJay: You try to keep in contact, but they’re busy having sex with that other
\nguy.<\/p>\nColin: (laughs)<\/p>\n
Jay: “Hi, I’d like to talk to my friend now, but I’m having sex with Larry.”<\/p>\n
Colin: (laughs)Yeah, exactly.<\/p>\n
Jay: It’s very hard. But you got an “awww” out of it, and that’s important.<\/p>\n
Colin: I got an “awww” and I’ll definitely take an “aww”.<\/p>\n
Jay: It’s always good to get one of those…when you’ve been dumped.<\/p>\n
<<>><\/p>\n
Jay: Well, terrific, the film is called “Get Over It” and it’s playing in a
\ntheater near you. Colin, thank you, nice to meet you. Colin Hanks everybody!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to Maria for this. Colin Hanks on Jay Leno My next guest is a talented young actor who stars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2377,3],"tags":[18,872,871],"coauthors":[2273],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colin-hanks","category-leading","tag-colin-hanks","tag-jay-leno","tag-tonight-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28643,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/28643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}