Thanks to Janet for sending this in!<\/p>\n
Five Questions with Colin Hanks: Standing on his own feet<\/strong>
\nBy CHELSEA J. CARTER<\/p>\n03\/08\/2000
\nAssociated Press Newswires
\nCopyright 2000. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\nLOS ANGELES (AP) – Being the acting son of a well-known actor is
\ntough.<\/p>\nBeing the acting son of two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks is
\ntougher.<\/p>\nBut 22-year-old Colin Hanks has set out on his own, attempting to
\nmake it by himself in his TV acting debut on The WB series ” Roswell
\n.”<\/p>\nThis show is about a group of teens who share a secret tied to the
\ncrash of an alien spacecraft near Roswell , N.M., in 1947. “I know. It
\nsounds crazy. When I first read it, I had a hard time explaining it.
\nSo now basically I end up just saying, `Just watch the show, please,”‘
\nHanks said.<\/p>\nIn the series, Hanks plays an oft-maligned – but cute – sidekick,
\nthe odd man out to a pair of space aliens and their girlfriends. He’s
\na ladies’ man, of sorts; the advice guy for the pretty girls.<\/p>\nOne of two children born to Hanks and first wife, Samantha Lewes, he
\ngrew up in the very un-Hollywood atmosphere of Sacramento, Calif.,
\nthen attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he
\nbegan appearing in stage productions.<\/p>\nHanks has a part in the not-yet-released feature film “I’ll Be You,”
\nbilled as a high school version of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” and he had a
\nsmall part in his father’s 1996 movie “that thing you do!”<\/p>\n1. At what point did you decide to take the acting career path?<\/p>\n
Hanks: It wasn’t like I was thinking, `I can’t wait to be an actor.
\nI can’t wait to do this.’ I just sort of always knew. For me, it’s
\nlike playing with toys. It’s playtime. It’s make-believe time. I
\nalways liked that growing up. It wasn’t until really a year and a half
\nago, I decided to give it a shot and see if I really could hack it.<\/p>\n2. Have you noticed people treating you differently now that you’re
\nin the spotlight?<\/p>\nHanks: Obviously, I’ve been around that for ages. But I was always
\nthe one not being recognized, and now I am. It is sort of strange. I
\nmust admit, I have had some uncomfortable moments. But I’ve had some
\nreally cool moments, too.<\/p>\n3. Is there something you do to prepare for it?<\/p>\n
Hanks: It’s not something you can prepare for. I think it’s sort of
\na joke if you think about it too much and you try to avoid it. It’s
\ngoing to happen whether you like it or not. There are very many
\naspects to working as an actor. I’ve understood that for a while now.
\n… It is very strange to be in the shoes now. I’m not saying I’m
\n100 percent comfortable with it. I’m not saying I ever will be
\ncomfortable with it.<\/p>\n4. Do you worry about people drawing comparisons between you and
\nyour father?<\/p>\nHanks: Very, very much so. Obviously, people are going to draw
\nwhatever comparisons they want. That’s completely fine. People are
\ngoing to want to know about it. That’s completely fine. I can see
\ntheir point of view. But overall, I’m just like any other kid on the
\nshow. I auditioned for the part. I went through 18 million callbacks.
\nI had to do the final testing just like everyone else.<\/p>\n4 1\/2 : Are there more expectations of you because of your father?<\/p>\n
Hanks: Sure. People’s first instinct is, `Is he any good? Can he cut
\nit by himself or is he just riding the coattails?’ It’s fine. But I
\ncan’t wait until I don’t have to deal with it anymore and it hasn’t
\neven really hit too much. I’ve been working on the show and I haven’t
\nbeen really in the public eye all that much. But when I am, there is
\nnothing I can do about it. People are going to do what they are
\ngoing to do, and I just have to learn to keep going and doing my own
\nthing.<\/p>\n5. Do you enjoy the spotlight?<\/p>\n
Hanks: Working, being on the show, that is what I like. I like to
\nact. But going out to various functions, no. I personally don’t like
\nto put myself on the pedestal. When you see me on the show, that is me
\nas somebody else. I’m acting like someone else, I’m being someone
\nelse. I’m part of a show, a narrative, a plot. But going to movie
\npremieres and clubs, that’s not me. I’d rather be at home. My personal
\nlife is very, very important to me, and I keep it very close to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to Janet for sending this in! Five Questions with Colin Hanks: Standing on his own feet By CHELSEA J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[18,70],"coauthors":[2266],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colin-hanks","category-leading","tag-colin-hanks","tag-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27957,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/27957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}