Tom Hanks offered nothing but wisdom and the truth while delivering a keynote address to Harvard University’s graduating class of 2023 on Thursday.
The actor, who famously starred as a Harvard professor named Robert Langdon in 2006’s “The Da Vinci Code” and its two sequels — “Angels & Demons” (2009) and “Inferno” (2016) — kicked things off by poking fun at his lack of credentials in comparison to the graduating class.
“It’s not fair, but please don’t be embittered by this fact,” Hanks, 66, began. “Now, without having done a lick of work, without having spent any time in class, without once walking into that library — in order to have anything to do with the graduating class of Harvard, its faculty, or its distinguished alumni — I make a damn good living playing someone who did.
“It’s the way of the world, kids,” he added as the audience erupted with laughter.
Hanks attended...
The actor, who famously starred as a Harvard professor named Robert Langdon in 2006’s “The Da Vinci Code” and its two sequels — “Angels & Demons” (2009) and “Inferno” (2016) — kicked things off by poking fun at his lack of credentials in comparison to the graduating class.
“It’s not fair, but please don’t be embittered by this fact,” Hanks, 66, began. “Now, without having done a lick of work, without having spent any time in class, without once walking into that library — in order to have anything to do with the graduating class of Harvard, its faculty, or its distinguished alumni — I make a damn good living playing someone who did.
“It’s the way of the world, kids,” he added as the audience erupted with laughter.
Hanks attended...
- 5/26/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
As a landmark of Paris and the world's most visited art museum — with over 10 million annual visitors before the pandemic, according to the BBC — the Louvre has been featured in a number of Hollywood films. In 2005, for instance, museum officials reluctantly allowed the makers of "The Da Vinci Code" to shoot inside the Louvre, with the movie adapting a scene from Dan Brown's bestselling book where symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) walks into a grisly murder scene with a body posed like Leonardo Da Vinci's "The Vitruvian Man." More recently, in 2017, the opening scene of "Wonder Woman" showed Gal Gadot's heroine strolling past the glass pyramid in the Louvre's main courtyard and into the museum.
"John Wick: Chapter 4" is merely the latest in a long line of movies to shoot in and around the Louvre, but given the title character's penchant for gun fu fighting, Parisians...
"John Wick: Chapter 4" is merely the latest in a long line of movies to shoot in and around the Louvre, but given the title character's penchant for gun fu fighting, Parisians...
- 2/25/2023
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Rami Malek is circling his next lead role in the thriller "Amateur" from 20th Century Studios. Deadline reports that James Hawes — who directed all six episodes of the first season of "Slow Horses," the Gary Oldman-led Apple TV+ series — has also boarded the project. Right now, it's still in the development stages, with Malek in line to executive produce alongside Hutch Parker and Dan Wilson.
The plot of "Amateur" reportedly "follows a CIA cryptographer who, after his wife is tragically killed in a London terrorist attack, demands his bosses go after them." The CIA isn't having any of that, and "when it becomes clear they won't act due to conflicting internal priorities," the cryptographer takes matters into his own hands and "blackmails the agency into training him."
Malek is no stranger to thriller territory, having starred in "Mr. Robot" for four seasons before the show ended in 2019. Since winning...
The plot of "Amateur" reportedly "follows a CIA cryptographer who, after his wife is tragically killed in a London terrorist attack, demands his bosses go after them." The CIA isn't having any of that, and "when it becomes clear they won't act due to conflicting internal priorities," the cryptographer takes matters into his own hands and "blackmails the agency into training him."
Malek is no stranger to thriller territory, having starred in "Mr. Robot" for four seasons before the show ended in 2019. Since winning...
- 2/20/2023
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
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