Gary Sinise
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
And then I auditioned for it, and I got a couple of good parts that year.
You know, when you're in a movie like that that's so popular...
And you're not that well-known and you play a good part, you know, and things are going to change for you.
So I got some good parts after that.
No, no, no.
I mean, so I'm working with Tom Hanks.
He was a big movie star.
So that was a good thing.
Bob Zemeckis was...
top director, really a lot of success.
The script was good.
So you got three things going for you there that give you an indication like, oh, you're involved in something that could be pretty cool.
But the nature of the, if you remember that, the nature of the way that story was told is you've got Forrest Gump interacting with all these different characters, right?
Like there's the Jenny story and there's the Bubba story and there's the Lieutenant Dan story and the Mama story.
And we didn't really interact with each other, you know, all those other characters.
It wasn't like we were all in the same scene.
So I didn't really know what Robin Wright was doing as Jenny.
I didn't know what β I knew a couple things about Michael T. Williamson because I was in some scenes with him.
But Sally Field, I didn't really know what was going on.